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Tetris Creator Claims FOSS Destroys the Market
alx5000 writes "In an interview conducted last week with Consumer Eroski (link in Spanish; Google translation), the father of Tetris Alexey Pajitnov claimed that 'Free Software should have never existed,' since it 'destroys the market' by bringing down companies that create wealth and prosperity. When asked about Red Hat or Oracle's support-oriented model, he called them 'a minority,' and also criticized Stallman's ideas as 'belonging to the past' where there were no software 'business possibilities.'"
Details at eleven.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Someone has to say it.
In California, you play Tetris.
In Soviet Russia, Tetris play YOU!
(thank goodness for burnable Karma...)
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Chair throwing, and dancing like a monkey. You?
The Mothership
Tell him to look at this link.
Tomato wedge sperm darts that are Republican.
I was discussing with a client today about whether to use a service oriented architecture on a Redhat server supported by an Oracle database, but he was much more keen on using a vertical block model with a rotational function that maximized resources by removing redundant full rows, and had pretty colours and a catchy tune.
Genesis 1:32 And God typed
I expect complete and absolute support for "DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS"!
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Tetris was originally designed as a training tool for late Soviet-era transport interests. The idea was to reduce shipping costs by training load masters to improve the density of packing freight cars, container ships, and trucks.
This is all covered in my book, Shit I Made Up About The Russian Software Industry.
If you didn't come to party don't bother knocking on my door. Prince '1999'
Woo, oxygen bras!
Reads it again...
Awwwwwwwwwww.............
I like to place meaningful quotes in my sig, so people will know that I know what meaningful quotes are.
you're close. its more like, "clean environment campaigns are ruining the market for bottled water."
...vividly encapsulates that post-Watergate/pre-punk/coked-up moment when you could trust no one, least of all yourself.
Tomato wedge sperm darts that are Republican.
Funny, I thought it was photosynthesis and plants. Now, if you meant hot air ...
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
You use Steve Jobs as the extreme for closed source software?
Are you sure you can't think of someone more...qualified?
You must be new here....
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
The idea was to reduce shipping costs by training load masters to improve the density of packing freight cars, container ships, and trucks.
I'd figure the easiest way to do that would be to get rid of all the L-, T- and S-shaped shipping containers.
The enemies of Democracy are
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." - Every fascist, ever
I am an anaerobic life form, you insensitive clod!
Do not mock my vision of impractical footwear
Personally, I like to arrange things so that there's just enough room to fit the penis-shaped shipping container and four lines black out.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
And whores likewise complain that girlfriends and wifes destroy the sex market.
Personally, I like to arrange things so that there's just enough room to fit the penis-shaped shipping container and four lines black out.
You don't have to use euphemisms, we won't judge. Just say "my penis".
The enemies of Democracy are
I'd like to a game made, where a baboon throws chairs that flip-roll down levels that you have to jump over to advance to harder levels ... I call it Developers Kong.
"From DNA to P2P, we are all Copycats now. Go Go Copycat Power! Copycat Powers activate! Form of, a Copycat." --monxrtr
Clearly they have not seen "leave Britney alone."
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I, for one, refuse to be satisfied until we have a car analogy here.
Actually, Tetris is a very 'Soviet' type of game. You struggle to keep up, until you fail. How long you can last before you fail is how you are scored.
In this dude's honor, I just brought up Gnu Emacs and played a game of tetris.
Alright, that's it. I'm going to start boycotting Tetris. Starting about, oh I don't know, 15 years ago.
Reading about Alexey Pajitnov calling RMS's ideas on free software "the past" is like reading an article where A Flock of Seagulls calls rap music a passing fad.
"All those moments, will be lost in time...like tears in rain..."
This is all covered in my book, Shit I Made Up About The Russian Software Industry. Obviously you didn't see the BBC documentary on Tetris (it's available on YouTube - can't provide a link right now). Whoosh!
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Unknown
"How do I put Tetris on this?" is the first question when you get a new electronic. The second is Linux. :)
With the informative out of the way, let's go to the funny :)
FOSS ignites passion, creativity, humanity, good and innovation. These are the goals I strive for each and every day. Clearly, Tetris man has profit on mind. Profit driven entities are good for one thing; PROFIT! If profit ruled, I might have been typing this on a mainframe. If profit ruled Slashdot would be pretty fuckin boring! If profit ruled, Tetris might have not walked to the hall of fame.