2003:
[[A man approaches a bearded fellow.]]
Man: Did you get my essay?
Bearded Fellow: Yeah, it was good! But it was a .doc; You should really use a more open--
Man: Give it a
rest
already. Maybe we just want to live our lives and use software that
works
, not get wrapped up in your stupid nerd turf wars.
Bearded Fellow: I just want people to care about the infrastructures we're building and who--
Man: No, you just want to feel smugly superior. You have no sense of perspective and are probably autistic.
2010:
Man: Oh my God! We handed control of our social world to Facebook and they're
DOING EVIL STUFF!
Bearded Fellow: Do you see this?
[[Inset, the bearded fellow rubs his index and middle fingers against his thumb.]]
Bearded Fellow:
It's the world's tiniest open-source violin.
{{Title text: The heartfelt tune it plays is CC licensed, and you can get it from my seed on JoinDiaspora.net whenever that project gets going.}}
Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm killed Jeeves. The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm is from Jersey. The algorithm constantly finds Jesus. This is not the algorithm. This is close.