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Halloween X Author Mike Anderer Speaks Out
cdlu writes "Mike Anderer, author of the now-famous Halloween X document, has spoken out at NewsForge. Among the highlights is a prediction by Mr. Anderer that Microsoft has many more disruptive lawsuits planned up their sleeves."
> I also have a lot to say in most situations.
In other words, I'm a big mouth.
no big sig
Our government doesn't have time to deal with minor annoyances like MS. They have rights to abolish and wars to start.
Bush deserves a lot more than being voted out of office. IMO, he's earned the right to be the first person to land a Navy jet on the Sun.
Not true! In Microsoft's EULA, they'll pay off on any proven liability .. up to $10 or the cost of the product. :^P
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Oh c'mon, M$ is always covering my ass everytime I lose data, crash, re-install, get a virus, let a spammer in, end with up an incompatable version... yep, M$ is always behind me, everytime I bend over.
Yup, PJ over at Groklaw seems to have made the same mistake.
There's always some risk when someone copies the girl next to them instead of doing their own homework.
The real Ralph Yarro posts as Anonymous Coward. Anyone else is an impostor.
You're both wrong. Or at least, prose-wise, the whole dynamic of his message has been transformed by your attempts to narrow his statements to a specific implication context-wise. This isn't about narrowing. This isn't about context. This is about limitless possibilities for vissioning the implications without giving it to the growning dependence on actual meaning.
Look at his resume--all of the important companies that aren't trying to hide the fact--and have never tried to hide the fact--that he may once have run them, or sat on their boards. No one is trying to hide the fact; it would be too hard, and as he says he isn't good at hiding. These companies wouldn't want him on theirs boards if they doubted for a moment that he wasn't the sort of guy who could and would tell it like it is, plain-speaking-wise, without the risk of sounding like he was trying to avoid beating around the bush when the chips were down.
As for the GPL & F/OSS--well, his position speaks for itself.
-- MarkusQ
Very true. Look at how he intoduced himself and we can see what kind of dude he is.
Most of my time is currently spent on new technologies on several different platforms.
Read: I don't know shit. When someone is foolish enough to consult me I'll give them some buzzwords and get away with it.
Many of my companies and several of our offices have been merged into other companies, moved or sold as part of a technology deal, some even sold during the deepest parts of the downturn.
Read: Companies I worked for usually falling into bankrupcy, disbanding into complete disarray or being bought out as junk stock. I'm proud to tell everybody I'm actively participating in their failures.
I helped build the channels for most of the products that corporate America is currently using and some they will be using soon.
Read: I offers in 'digital channel' teen sex, herbal viagra and penis enlargement, etc. when I'm not hired.
In several cases, I am finally finding or developing ways to solve problems I have been working on for the last 20 years.
I finally figure out how to wipe my ass clean without shitting my pants.
The only way I can hide is to work so hard that it becomes close to impossible to track all the companies I have owned, bought, sold, rolled up, or sat on the board of.
Read: Trust me. I'm somebody of importance, only I just can't tell you why.
If you include the ones where I helped entrepreneurs and companies through tough times, or sat on non-profit boards, the list would be even tougher to follow.
Read: Don't you get it? Let me repeat, I've done a lot of great things but I just can't tell you a bit of it.
(Somehow I should have written my resume like that)
Too expensive. Let's just dump him in a sewer, and say he landed a jet on the sun.
And if he worries that it might be too hot, let's just tell him he can go at night.
Yesterday, Charles M. Schulz was utterly amazed when he came across Mike Anderer's reply regarding the Baystar SCO transaction on NewsForge.
Charles M. Schulz, who had used the famous 'wha wha wha' to identify adults speaking in his cartoons, was amazed to find the equivalent could actually be accomplished with real words.