The Corner of Mads

Two things that came out of the blue and surprised me this week. In Davos, when asked about censorship in search engines in China, Google CEO Eric Schmidt made some excellent points, which finally led to :

"We even made an evil scale and decided it was more evil not to go in than to go in," Schmidt said.
On hearing that, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates muttered into his microphone: "That's do less evil.

In response, Schmidt said: "I don't want to get caught up in semantics."

What a brilliant point. The motto was to do NO evil. Switching tracks, in a discussion about RMS, a friend remarked:

> He used to dance to upbeat Balkan folk music
Yet another reason why cooperation with RMS is impossible.

All tongue in cheek of course, but such a splendid image. Just imagine someone, refusing to dance and/or protesting, for example that someone did not call it music from Albania/Bosnia and Herzegovina/Bulgaria/Croatia/Greece/Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia/Serbia and Montenegro/Turkey but however called it Balkan folk music.