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Interclue and What Going Proprietary Can Do
Linux.com (which shares a corporate overlord with Slashdot) has an interesting look at what going proprietary can mean for your overall effectiveness. Using Firefox extension "Interclue" as the object lesson, the piece looks at both the engineering and social difficulties surrounding the project. "Even more significantly, the efforts to commercialize only detract from the software itself. The basic idea behind Interclue would make for a handy Web utility, but seems too slight to build a business around. The effort to do so only leads to complications that do nothing to enhance the basic utility, and to pleas for donations that can only annoy. The result is that, if your position on free software doesn't lead you to avoid Interclue, the efforts to monetize it almost certainly will."
Your Newspeak is ungood. "bad" is ungroupthink. Use "doubleplusungood".
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
Only the end? :)
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
Clearly the editors were all replaced by small perl scripts at the beginning of '08. Possibly earlier.
...and songbird is the other.
Do you think humans runs the self-called corporate overlord? Silly.
Am I eval()? - http://www.monst3r.com.br
I guess you were supposed to move the cursor over the link and pause, waiting for a preview of the linked article to appear, and read it. Maybe the /. editor is subtly promoting the usage of a proprietary Firefox expansion!! [/conspiracy theory]