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RMS Asks Miguel to Explain Himself
phaze3000 writes "RMS, responding to questions from the audience at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil last week, has asked Miguel de Icaza to explain himself to the Free software community about comments made last week that Gnome should be based on .NET in the future. More details at Brazillian site Hotbits and in The Register." I find this amusing.
Karma Suicide Bomber.
Tuesday -- Slashdot. A Troll with an estimated 100 lines of flamebait strapped to his body detonated near the top of an article, moderating the troll down to -1. The blast incited a lenghty, fruitless debate over the merits of the GPL vs. BSD license, revived debates over the Karma cap, and widened nearby pages by up to 500 pixels. Fragments of sentences and even entire paragraphs were scattered over a wide area. Early estimates indicate that as many as 5 other users may have been modded down to -1, and that a larger number were modded down to 0.
Spokesman for the trolls and defacto Troll leader Yassir Arasplat denied involvement. "This may have been the work of Hagoatsex, The Bombastic C-Code, or one of the other militant Troll groups". Leaders and moderators of Slashdot insist that Arasplat must bear some responsability for the outburst. As you may recall, last year the Slashdot coalition government offered a deal that would have ceded large portions of Slashdot to Trolls. This was considered a very generous offer by most parties, but it stopped short of establishing a Trollestinian state.
Leaders of the United Web Sites and others pledged to bring an end to Karma Suicide Bombing. The United Web Sites pledged over $10 billion flooz, as well as its own Perl coders to help in the effort. An offer by MSN.com to send in coders was politely rejected, but the Slashdot coalition said it could not rule out anything in the future. Recent e-mailings of Perl code snippets to the Trolls demonstrate that they have no intention of posting anything other than mindless, disruptive, off-topic drivel.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
How is this flamebait? It's a reasonable suggestion.
Extremely funny mod it up now!
"Don't belong. Never join. Think for yourself. Peace." V.Stone, Microsoft Corporation
How is this funny?
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
It attempts to make humor.
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