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Microsoft's SUSE Coupons Have No Expiry Date
mw13068 writes "In a recent article in the Seattle Post Intelligencer FSF General Council Eben Moglen points out that the Microsoft SUSE coupons have no expiration date. The result? 'Microsoft can be sure that some coupons will be turned into Novell in return for software after the effective date of GPL 3. Once that has happened, patent defenses will, under the license, have moved out into the broad community and be available to anybody who Microsoft should ever sue for infringement.' Groklaw is also covering the story in it's inimitable way."
Google says 11,000 people also misspelt Expirey.
When I was a wee lad of 5 or 6, my grandpa would sit me on his lap and tell me about life and learning. He'd say things like "Boy, always treat people as you'd like them to treat you" or "A penny saved is a penny earned".
My favourite one was "Boy, never, ever misspell the word "expiry" or you'll look like a fucking retard."
I sure miss Grandpa.
Trolling is a art,
Ex pire y
1. A state of expiration, not quite fully expired, but not as good as new. Kind of like milk that's been sitting in the fridge for a while, but still hasn't reached its expiration date.
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
How we know is more important than what we know.
That gives me an idea...
Blackadder: Do you know what expirey is, Baldrick?
Baldrick: Oh, sure, it's like breezy or slackery or yggdrasily...
"All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog." Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Maybe they have a 49 char max, but I could be wro
I'll give it a go.
It's 4th down at the 1-yard line. The FOSS defense has be taking a beating from Microsoft offensive patent drive. Ballmer's throwing arm has been dead-on leading the proprietary software vendor on a 80-yard drive. Now, with seemingly only seconds remaining in the game, Microsoft still has the longest yard to go yet.
The huddle breaks and you can see Ballmer has put lawyer's split wide and the Novell front line in tight formation. Microsoft is going for the Hail Mary play! The ball is snapped, Ballmer goes back deep. He scrambling back and forth like a wild man on a stage dodging one GNU line backer after the next trying to kill the time on the clock.
The free crowed is on their feet in screaming. The PHB crowed is nervously biting their nails. Ballmer looks exhausted. You can see his sweaty arm pits from the stands. Ballmer, blinded by falling SuSE ticker tape from crowd can't see the time on the clock, throws the ball wildly like a chair against a wall. But the FOSS defenses intercept the pass and return the ball to the 50-yard line after spectacular blocking by the GPL3.
And the game goes into over-time.
My expirey-sense is tingling!
Actually I did look it up, but there was no entry (Random-House). As my initial guess for the choosen usage
I hate to be the one to have to say this, but maybe you'd better get a better dictionary.
The default one in Firefox (dictionary.reference.com) isn't too bad; you can get it by typing "dict {word}" into the URL field. Although honestly, Google seems to just get better and better as a spell-checker; actually it'd be pretty slick someday if spelling packages could failover to Google for suggestions, on detecting a word not in their dictionary -- that would let them stay more or less permanently up-to-date, even on neologisms. (I bet Google would consider such automated queries abusive, though.)
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
However, neither of these should be confused with "ex pyre i", which is what happens when you burn a dyslexic witch.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Mr. Bungi, you need to realize that in the English language, there is such a thing as context. The word "own" can refer to several things, including constitutionally protected private property, intellectual authorship, and even homosexual rape.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
expirate: a person who used to be a pirate.
expirite: a mineral created by heating an irony pyrite rock until it expires.
expirey: the act of creating expirite by an expirate.
For example:
He's good at expirey look at all the irony in this expirite. Only an expirate could produce such irony expirite through expirey. Arr.
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