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"Future Tech" vs KDE Developer
I've been a huge fan of Liquid for some time. I've been compiling releases and using on my laptop. The project isn't nearly as ambitious as Enlightenment, but it has some interesting UI ideas and it looks good. I was really pleased when I found out that Mosfet was going to have a shot at continuing the development of the program for FT under the KDE License. At this point, FT ("The Total Linux Company," according to their website) mentioned a few of the features in Liquid as being part of the benefits of FT's distribution. This was to set them apart from "Other" distributions, although even at the time I found it funny, as The final decision in selecting one RPM based distribution over another would rarely be tipped in favor of the one with translucent menus ;)
Anyway the Changelog contains the following line:
* Future Technologies' name has been removed. They hired me to do KDE development, but failed to pay me after promising to do so three times over the span of several months :( I still haven't seen any of the paychecks they said they would send me, and they even went as far as sending me a fake FedEx number. Now they are saying they can't afford to pay their employees.
And soon after Mosfet's website announced that he was leaving Linux and Liquid was dead. Unable to afford to develop Liquid for free, he was seeking work in the windows world.
According to the site, on 10/28, Dr. Giovanni asked Mandrakesoft, the host of Mosfet.org to take down the site, under threat of legal action. But since I see the site still there, it looks like they are standing their ground which is a good thing.
Anyway, I don't know what the moral of the story is, beyond a warning to keep both eyes open. There is a lot of questionable stuff that goes on in this world. Be careful.
(I've emailed Giovanni from FT but have yet to hear back from him.)
wohooo
Mosfet is a Fsking hot head he needs to chill a bit and see the big picture, he left the Linux community with a sour taste in there mouths by saying he was not appriciated at all and has been treated like shit(Which IMHO is the farthest thing from the truth). Then he screws over the company he switched to after changing teams. This guy is not wanted by either side and i'll tell you why, because he's a cry baby, the second things go wrong he bitches and complains until things go his was, and what per-chance if things don't? Well he packs up his shit and leaves, he's done it twice already to Linux and Windows users. The next step MAC USERS!!!
I'll Sig you!
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
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The answer is blowin' in the wind.
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Before he can see the sky?
Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
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That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
As if recent events (attacks on the World Trade Centres, Anthrax Attacks) raising our collective conciousness into a state of terror wasn't bad enough, Hallowe'en is just around the corner. Soon, a new terror, a spooky terror, will unfold as the souls of thousands of innocent civilians who died raise from the dead on All Hallow's Eve to terrorise yawl's neighborhood. And you people have the gall to be discussing KDE development???? My *god*, people, GET SOME PRIORITIES!
The angry souls of the recent dead could give a good god damn about KDE, instead preferring to wander the areas where they met their untimely ends, seeking out unwitting victims for retribution. By all means, on the evening of Hallowe'en, try to avoid the area around Ground Zero of the WTC, the area near the Pentagon, and the crash site in Pennsylvania unless you don't mind becoming a victim of terror (a spooky terror indeed), yourself.
You have been warned!
"Mosfet" sounds like a terrorist name to me. Maybe if he'd spent more time working and less time kneeling on a carpet sample and praying to Satan, he wouldn't be in this predicament. Goddamn foreigners.
Dr. Giovanni played with my balls, but he said it was going to be 'our little secret'. As I grew older I watched Dr. Giovanni attempt to molest more children-even a 8 day old baby. Dr. Giovanni also enjoys fucking goats in his spare time and is a fag closet windows user. I am begging anyone that knows Dr. Giovanni to smash his face to a bloody pulp with a hammer. If it is not too much to ask, I would be very pleased if you could send me a piece of Dr. Giovanni's skull, once you have smashed it to pieces. Thankyou in advance........Mosfet
The how to moderate notes clearly state that being off topic relates to the immediate perent. The immediate perent to this message was talking about how good a fuck my mom was, so I replied by how good a fuck his sister is. How is this offtopic?
Contact smash_Dr_Giovanni_to_a_bloody_pulp@yahoo.com
ROFLMAO,
.. you know
indeed, a man fears "thought" like
the rest.
Actually, that AC desres some karma, mod him up
for +funny.
microsoft would love to do this; but they don't have anyone good enough to write code for the kernel.
Have you ever looked at microsoft code?
All of my instructors called that kind 'spaghetti code' and gave me a bad grade.
leaving in the 'stubs' so that it takes up twice as much room is only done at microsoft.
Truth isn't Truth - Guliani