To Evil! December 2004

Steve Mallett writes “In this month’s mocking toast To Evil! Danny O’Brien laments the holiday habit of trying to hide one’s evilness from Father Christmas, but finds those evil proprietary software people can’t help being who they are. ‘…let’s see whose been evil and not so evil down there in the chained world of proprietary software. That sorry place, where slipshod users cannot hide their sin, distracted as they are by demons only the unfree suffer: the draconian wiles of restrictively-licensed media companies, the constant hammer of pop-up ads and malware, and – most dread of all – closed-source software with hard-coded integer limits, running on AIX.'”