The Machine

Wednesday October 13, 2004 - 12:21PM EDT

Been thinking a lot about software patents and whatnot. I desperately want to make the software I create free to use and modify but I have school loans to pay off and I need money. What do I do? It is a horrible machine that we live in that inhibits creativity and forces people to contiue to support the machine in order to live. How do you break the machine, how do you redesign the machine, how do you stop the machine? I am thinking you have to be on top to break the machine. You can't break it from the bottom. You have to use the machine for your personal benefit then destroy it. Unfortunately very few who use the machine to get ahead attempt to destroy it. I will try going the traditional way first, use the machine for my benefit. If I get ahead then I will destroy the machine.

Nothing interesting recently. The drive to acquire monetary wealth puzzles me sometimes. It seems empty. My drive is to do things, unfortunately the machine is setup in such a way that you must have money before you can do most things. So you spend most of your life trying to get money to do other things. The machine has a weakness and I will find it eventually or die trying. There is something there one can exploit to destroy the machine. I don't know what it is but there is a weakness. I'm bored.