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Speak Freely To Be Withdrawn January 15

wrenhunt writes "The Speak Freely site has this: 'On January 15th, 2004, Speak Freely will be discontinued and removed from this Web site. Existing users may continue to use the program as long as they wish, but no further releases will be forthcoming. For details and the reasons why Speak Freely is being discontinued, please see the full end of life announcement.'" The reasons are various and interesting; it's graceful of the author to provide an explanation of why a piece of software is going away. Update: 01/11 19:22 GMT by T : As reader pi_rules points out, this story is a duplicate -- my apologies.

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  1. You lost me by radoni · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...at "Start Menu"

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    SIGERR: laziness exceeds quota
  2. Last chance to see by Scrameustache · · Score: 4, Funny

    For God's sake, search for 'speakfreely' in your own engine. It returns ONE result! The same damned article!

    You're not thinking like a /. editor, to them this is their last chance to slashdot that server to oblivion!

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    You can't take the sky from me...

  3. Re:Cheap routers.. by kfg · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, UPnP is pretty nifty. Just think about it. All you have to do is install a piece of software and it can give itself whatever firewall permissions it thinks it needs to do whatever deed it thinks it needs to do, and all without involving the user.

    And imagine never having to flash firmware again. The device simply keeps track of available upgrades and flashes itself.

    Why, Belkin could give us a new popup coded directly into firmware every week. That way you never have to get tired of looking at the same one over and over again.

    Sign me up.

    KFG

  4. Do not despair, gentle readers by aardvarko · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your right to speak FREELY has been revoked. Your right to speak in DUPLICATE, however, is still flourishing wildly!

    1. Re:Do not despair, gentle readers by Limburgher · · Score: 5, Funny

      Your right to speak FREELY has been revoked. Your right to speak in DUPLICATE, however, is still flourishing wildly!

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      You are not the customer.

  5. Re:XP would have saved it by __past__ · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is slashdot. Pairing with yourself is not something unusual for most people here.

  6. Re:Cheap routers.. by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ok, I tried that. Got a nifty little samadhi out of it after awhile. Not necessarily the mantra I'd recommend, but it functions.

    Here, now you try one.

    UPnP, not RPnP. UPnP, not RPnP.

    Give it about 10 minutes before it configures the port to the Tao. Unless, of course, your firewall is configured to block the Tao's ip (as I suspect is the case), then it might take rather longer.

    KFG

  7. It DID happen to another piece of software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    It was an IP-address anonymizing service.

    It was called IPFreely.

  8. Re:NATing Off Customers by DAldredge · · Score: 1, Funny

    He said, in part, TOOK THE INITIATIVE IN CREATING, I am sorry but out her in flyover country that is taking credit for creating the internet.

    He lied. And don't tell me about the Cerfs defense of Al Gore, he is an VP at WorldCom how has huge goverment contracts. He will not piss off those that write his checks.