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Spotify Releases a Linux-Only Client Library
f0rk writes "Spotify, a popular music streaming service, has just recently released libspotify. An official, binary-only, only for subscribers, library to 'enable and inspire you to build some really cool stuff.' The first release only has support for x86-32 Linux, the only major platform Spotify does not run on. It looks like the Spotify team is trying to be nice to the Linux community and hope someone will use their restricted binary-only library to write a Linux client."
What would I do without Slashdot to provide me with a non-stop source of neurotic undertakings to complain about? By way of introduction, let me just say that Slashdot's memoranda are based on two fundamental errors. They assume that Slashdot has the linguistic prowess to produce a masterwork of meritorious literature and they promote the mistaken idea that it is its moral imperative to impose bad-tempered new restrictions on society just to satisfy some sort of raving drive for power. Slashdot has lost sight of the lessons of history. But let's not quibble about that.
Please don't misread my words here; the reason Slashdot wants to force me to play right into the hands of amateurish lugs is that it's completely footling. If you believe you have another explanation for its incorrigible behavior, then please write and tell me about it. What does Slashdot have to say about all of this? The answer, as expected, is nothing. I want to weed out organizations like Slashdot that have deceived, betrayed, and exploited us. That may seem simple enough, but we must remove our chains and move towards the light. (In case you didn't understand that analogy, the chains symbolize Slashdot's mendacious comments and the light represents the goal of getting all of us to acquire the input of a representative cross-section of the community in a non-threatening, inclusive environment.)
Slashdot likes to quote all of the saccharine, sticky moralisms about "human rights" and the evils of poststructuralism. But as soon as we stop paying attention, it invariably instructs its confidants to equip uneducated upstarts with flame throwers, hand grenades, and heat-seeking missiles. Then, when someone notices, the pattern repeats from the beginning. Though this game may seem perverse beyond belief to any sane individual it makes perfect sense in light of Slashdot's hectoring pranks. As a parting thought, remember that the ineluctable outcome of Slashdot's suggestions is a world in which passive-aggressive, pretentious Huns worsen an already unstable situation.