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Guido van Rossum Leaves Zope.com
VladDrac writes "Guido van Rossum, the author of the Python programming language, announced at OSCON last night that he's leaving zope.com, to work for a new startup called 'Elemental Security', founded by Dan Farmer (known from several security tools such as Satan). Guido leaving Zope.com will also probably mean that he will be no longer involved in Zope3 development, but hopefully he'll have more time to spend on Python development." Guido says that he's excited about his new employer, but that nothing substantial will change about Python as a result of the move. "It's just that I'll be working from the West coast." Python is "already quite secure," he says, and will be the basis of an upcoming security product ("just getting started") from Elemental.
OMFG have you seen the Halo 2 trailer it's like slow and it's telling you all the stuff you did in the first one then the music kicks in and and the chief comes out and gets a gun the earf is on fire and chief is like fuck this im jumping and HE JUMPS PUT OF TEH SPACESHIP with angels singing and he lands on the bad guys and that annoying ai lady is like GO GET EM TIGER! WILDCAT IS ON TEH SPOKE!!!~`1 and theres less polys but rawkin bumb mappings you can view this on a special MICROSOFT xbox disk that comes with EB games store.
Zope Soap on a Roap
> Neither python or perl are strongly typed, dumbass.
:)
While you may be right (I don't know, I have to assume you are), I don't think it's necessary to call him a dumbass. If you're going to insult someone, make it worthwhile, like "Learn what the F*&ck you are talking about before posting, asshat!"
Oh? Where in Africa? Maybe he's from Jamaica. Perhaps he's just black.
The Jamaican blacks were dragged off from Africa just as much as the ones that ended up in the US.
Why are you trolls so obsessed with gay sex? Is it perhaps because you are GAY!? Yes. I believe so. You are all closeted dicklickers, so you try to cast aspersions on others to avoid suspicion. Just admit that you love cock and you will be a lot happier. Then maybe you won't feel the need to "out" someone who ISN'T gay.
Hi. Let's be buddies... butt buddies.
I have renamed my cat to GNU/cat. For freedom.
It's been a long time coming and a lot of us in the OSS community were aware that this was always a possibility. I post this anonymously to avoid endangering my reputation at my company. Today, we just got a memo from the CEO of our firm. Starting next Monday, all open source software that we use and any development taking place using open source tools (this includes GNU tools) must be removed and all OSS related projects will cease. The CEO got a "tip" from some of our stockholders that Microsoft and SCO are working out a partnership that may make it next to impossible to use open source/free software without violating some new clauses in the MS EULA. In addition, Microsoft is planning to help SCO out in much the same way that they helped Apple. These two "facts" combined made our CEO very uncertain about the future of open source and to hedge all bets, he felt it in the stockholder's best interests to disassociate ourselves from OSS/Free.
I heartily disagree with his position, but since I am not the CEO I can't change it. Personally, I think he's fallen victim to FUD. From what we've all seen, SCO doesn't have a prayer of getting anything out of this lawsuit with IBM. And they definitely have no way to tell people that they can't use OSS/Free software. But, from a business perspective, the CEO probably has no choice.
Further "rumours" I heard from the folks upstairs are that Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have been working pretty closely with SCO and Darl McBride on this suit. Originally, it was just supposed to cast Linux in a negative light. But now they supposedly have an opportunity to permanently displace Linux in the business world through some new EULA clauses that are going to be tightly related to the licensing that MS bought from SCO. Hopefully, all this rumour will amount to is just water cooler talk. Again, I can't see how MS could legally make a EULA that would affect competitors in such an obvious way and not get pulled back into court for anti-trust violations.
But, just in case this is all true, we need to prepare ourselves for the ultimately bad scenario and find a way to keep free computing alive even in the face of all the adversity it may encounter in the near future. Forget about the desktop, this is now about survival and the human right to software access.
check out her list of foes. quite an amazing tally for a relative newbie.
Get back on the boat, Afro-Man!
Your anti-semitic comment is not funny. Saying that Jews were responsible for bringing slaves to America is not true.
My Gh0d you can troll! You are subtle like Fu Manchu, erudite like Christopher Hitchens and a real smart feller, besides.
Always nice to have your brain leave skidmarks
don't you mean...a God Damned Nigger?
Dear Guido:
Welcome to California.
Your share of this year's $38 billion deficit is estimated to be approx. $5000.
Thank you.
-- I have monkeys in my pants.