Samizdata - Governments should ban Linux

Another item prompts me to get around to installing Ubuntu; Governments should ban Linux | Samizdata.net:

We need a licensing scheme, headed by the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization, for all programming tools so that only trusted individuals may use them, and that inappropriate use of them is communicated via the internet to the government. To put it simply, either Linux dies - or the whole of human creativity will become a stagnant swamp.

They had me worried for a few seconds. Only a few mind...

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