If we are unwilling to identify the thieves, we can never end the theft.

The days that we can continue to pretend, despite all evidence to the contrary in a world of rapidly increasing wealth stratification, that mankind will anyminutenow be emancipated by Ubuntu, Wikipedia and Facebook are over.

Just getting caught up on e-mail after two weeks on the road and ran across this enjoyable essay by a friend and colleague Dmytri Kleiner.

Regularly readers will recall that Dima and I penning an article on free software together some years ago, and that Dima is part of the team behind Dailstation.