A Contrarian View of Open Source

Posted by michael on Tuesday August 6, 2002 @06:52AM from the open-arms-and-a-threadbare-tank-top-and-unbuttoned-jeans dept.

Bruce Sterling's OSCON speech is now online - fun, light reading. And a reminder: the Global Civil Society design contest (which we mentioned before) is ending soon.

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Re:This gem by realdpk · 2002-08-06 07:33 · Score: 4, Informative

How is it well-written? It's some incoherent mess about going from System 9 to System X and then Microsoft black putty. "I still don't get it about System X". What?
Re:OT: Jesus vs. the moneylenders by Viperion · 2002-08-06 08:02 · Score: 3, Informative

To offer a different reading on this topic, which assumes that the story presented in the Bible is factual, -

I think that Jesus was rather disgusted at the layers of elitism that the moneychangers were putting between the common folk and God. First, the moneychangers and other merchants there were also "inspectors" that looked over the animals that the Jews would bring to sacrifice, to inspect that they met ceremonial laws. They would then deny the animal a passing status, and would offer to buy the animal, and sell an acceptable sacrifice for an extra fee. Then, they would turn around and sell the animal that they had just denied was an acceptable sacrifice as an acceptable sacrifice. Secondly, they were set up in the court of the Gentiles, taking it over, which basically denied the non-Jewish God-fearers a place to worship.
Re:It was a really funny... and scary talk by llin · 2002-08-06 10:23 · Score: 3, Informative

Doc made a front row MD recording. I'll be putting it up eventually along w/ the rest my OSCON recordings. It will probably come across better than the transcript.