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Free Software As Nigerian Scam
djeaux writes "In the November 4 issue of Syllabus, Howard Strauss, manager of technology strategy and outreach at Princeton University, presents 'The FREE, 0% APR, Better Sex, No Effort Diet' in which he scattershoots at open source software. The Nigerian scam is part of his imagery, leading to a great quote: 'While you are installing your free open source software you may want to write Mrs. Ahmed a check. Her $8.5 million will help pay for the real cost of that free software.' Elsewhere, Strauss describes the open source community as 'a smattering of teenagers too young to work at Redmond, hackers, virus creators, and a menagerie of others with whom you will feel great pride in entrusting your IT infrastructure.'" Not everyone at Princeton agrees.
Who is this Strauss guy? Is he yet another student-turned-teacher that has no real world experience? Nothing chaps my hide more than perpetual academics, who have never built or run a successful company preaching their superior wisdom and insight on business development.
Take a look at this guy - He can't even select a decent hairpiece. I certainly wouldn't trust his technical advice.
His email is howard@princeton.edu if you want to flame him.
I have never met a man from Princeton that I didn't immediately want to punch in the mouth. I'm not saying that they don't exist, I'm just saying that I don't think this guy would be an exception.
My favorite Princeton Guy story- he was hired to guide my dotcom to an e-procurement platform. He picked iPlanet, even though it didn't do what we needed it to do. So we hired 40 programmers and started paying Netscape for a $600/hr adviser to help us customize it...
and then, surprise surprise, we ran out of money. what a fucktard.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
Insightful? The parent was insightful? "I will always be a student. I will graduate life when I am dead, and perhaps move on to post-graduate work," is insightful? Guideposts is more insightful. See this compendium of real deep thoughts, I suppose.
I suppose that Hallmark cards now count as Buddhist koans and Chicken Soup for the Soul is an example of a deep philosophical treatise.
I await the author's Prologomena to Any Future Hackonomy or Tractatus Hackaticus.
(Yes, yes, I know. My tortured attempts at big-sounding words using "Hack" is worse than the glurge of the parent. Oh well.)
Phiwum's law: anyone that names an obvious law after himself and then puts it in his own sig is just pathetic.