[humorix] Treaty of Helsinki Signed

[James Baughn <jbaughn@ldd.net>]

Treaty of Helsinki Signed

HELSINKI, FINLAND -- A cease-fire in the flame war between
Linux and FreeBSD has been reached.  A group of two dozen
Linux and FreeBSD zealots met in Helsinki to ratify a
treaty bringing a temporary end to the hostile fighting
between both camps.  "Today is a good day for peace," one
observer noted.  "Now both sides can lay down their
keyboards and quit flaming the opposing side on Usenet and
Slashdot."

The cease-fire is a response to the sudden increase in
fighting that has occured over the past two weeks.  The
Slashdot server became a victim of the cross-fire this week
when thousands of Anonymous Cowards and Geek Zealots posted
inflammatory comments that amounted to, "My OS is better
than your OS!" Many nerds, suffering withdrawl symptoms
when the Slashdot site slowed to a crawl, demanded that the
bickering stop.

"I can't take it anymore!  It takes two minutes to download
the Slashdot homepage -- assuming the site is actually
online.  I must have my 'News for Nerds' now!  I realize
that Slashdot is being migrated to a load-balanced system,
but I'm not sure if that will help.  Thousands of crusaders
posting flames in this petty holy war will bring down any
website no matter how cosmic the configuration. The
fighting must stop," one Anonymous Coward ranted.

Indeed, with the Treaty of Helsinki, the fighting and
flaming has stopped.  But for how long is the big
question.  History is not on the side of those who want
peace.

Last month's Treaty of Holland, an agreement between three
dozen Anonymous Cowards and Rob Malda, doesn't seem to be
going anywhere. Under the agreement, the ACs would agree
not to post any more First Post! (or Second Post!, or 348th
Post!) comments.  While the quantity of these posts
subsided for a few weeks, they seem to be coming back.  The
Army of Anonymous Cowards is not easily controlled.

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James S. Baughn
http://i-want-a-website.com/about-linux/

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