Re: is free, open source software ethical?

In article <1204794803.7577.50.camel@kurier>,
Joachim Durchholz <jo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Am Donnerstag, den 06.03.2008, 01:01 -0800 schrieb Ron Garret:
This is another of the results of the inertial forces. In a frame where
the earth is fixed, there's an apparent acceleration outwards around the
equator.

OK... but why at the equator? What's so special about the equator that
the bulge should be there?

If you're taking Earth as your reference frame: because there's an entire
universe rotating around it.

And why would the universe rotating around the earth make the earth
bulge?

rg
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