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Tetris Creator Claims FOSS Destroys the Market

Posted by kdawson on from the sterile-absentia dept.

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.'"

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  1. News Flash: bitter ex communist hates communism by spun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Details at eleven.

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    1. Re:News Flash: bitter ex communist hates communism by frission · · Score: 5, Funny

      >> Reductio ad absurdum with a twist.

      Don't come at us with your Harry Potter speak...

  2. Obligatory, sorry. by RobertB-DC · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone has to say it.

    In California, you play Tetris.
    In Soviet Russia, Tetris play YOU!

    (thank goodness for burnable Karma...)

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    1. Re:Obligatory, sorry. by Drooling+Iguana · · Score: 3, Funny

      On Slashdot, joke lets go of YOU!

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    2. Re:Obligatory, sorry. by rrkap · · Score: 5, Funny

      This joke is never obligatory! Will you people finally let it go?

      I for one welcome our humorless overlords.

      Farewell sweet, sweet karma

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    3. Re:Obligatory, sorry. by sammyF70 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of jokes like that!!

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    4. Re:Obligatory, sorry. by RobertB-DC · · Score: 3, Funny

      The fact that this joke, despite never being funny to begin with and being repeated to death by nerds everywhere ad nauseum, is still being modded up (to 5 for christsake) has convinced me to never try to actually instill any kind of sense into any of the people who post comments here ever again. So as long as the humor here is always going to be mindlessly repeated garbage, I'm going to go back to post spamming goatse, poop, and butts, which I find to be much more consistently fulfilling, and frankly, hilarious.

      You must be new here.

      (oh, come on, you *knew* that was coming)

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  3. Re:What do you expect... by The+Ancients · · Score: 5, Funny

    from a Microsoft employee?

    Chair throwing, and dancing like a monkey. You?

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  4. He has a point... by PinkyDead · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  5. Re:What do you expect... by khellendros1984 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I expect complete and absolute support for "DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS"!

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  6. Re:bringing down companies that create wealth by rev_sanchez · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  7. Re:Everybody's got a right to be wrong. by non · · Score: 3, Funny

    you're close. its more like, "clean environment campaigns are ruining the market for bottled water."

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  8. Re:Everybody's got a right to be wrong. by arotenbe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Free air is destroying the market for oxygen bars! I am a representative from the AIAA (Air Industry Association of America). As a firm believer in the rights of plants and blue-green algae to earn money through their photosynthesis, I find it irresponsible and criminal that animals across the world use oxygen without paying the creators royalties. Therefore, I have decided that I am going to sue everyone on Earth. Not just humans, mind you. All of you bears and tigers and piranhas will have to pony up too! Gwahahaha! GWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA AAAGGHHHAGHH GET IT OFF ME GET IT OFF ME AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
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  9. Re:Actually he's half right by aesiamun · · Score: 5, Funny

    You use Steve Jobs as the extreme for closed source software?

    Are you sure you can't think of someone more...qualified?

  10. And another obligatory.... by sconeu · · Score: 3, Funny

    You must be new here....

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  11. Re:bringing down companies that create wealth by Chris+Burke · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  12. Re:bringing down companies that create wealth by JazzLad · · Score: 5, Funny

    it's available on YouTube - can't provide a link right now Why? In Pakistan?
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  13. Re:Everybody's got a right to be wrong. by smurfsurf · · Score: 3, Funny

    And whores likewise complain that girlfriends and wifes destroy the sex market.

  14. ASCII graphics FT...W? by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 5, Funny
    He's right. Take a look at this screenshot of FOSS about to destroy The Market:

    |F.........|
    |O.........|
    |S.........|
    |S.........|
    |..........|
    |.TheMarket|
    |.TheMarket|
    |.TheMarket|
    |.TheMarket|
    ------------
  15. Re:bringing down companies that create wealth by Chris+Burke · · Score: 4, Funny

    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".

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  16. Re:bringing down companies that create wealth by FF0000+Phoenix · · Score: 3, Funny

    Alright, that's it. I'm going to start boycotting Tetris. Starting about, oh I don't know, 15 years ago.

  17. Flock of dumbass by Kennon · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  18. Re:bringing down companies that create wealth by Schemat1c · · Score: 3, Funny

    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. Obviously you didn't see the BBC documentary on Tetris (it's available on YouTube - can't provide a link right now). Whoosh!
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  19. Re:bringing down companies that create wealth by elloGov · · Score: 3, Funny

    "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.