I did. Now I have lost of time to hack and kiss the wife. TV will NEVER enter this house or my life again. I'll never again channel hop for hours looking for anything good enough to catch my attention.
And to the advertisers, I say: When *I* want you, I *find* you. The rest is just noise.
The pervs and your kids are in your neighborhood, along with the dope dealers and the junkies, the whores and the johns, the cops and the crooks. The worst ones are the ones who abuse the opportunities afforded them by their position in society or in their organization.
Society (you?) NEED better surveilance. Its either going to come from cameras mounted on tall poles and monitored by an expensive "security" apparatus
Or you'll just have to watch your own damn kids and neighborhood, won't you?
You know that's exactly what I was predicting when the Papent Orifice started with this software patent stupidity.
Some vulture would go around and shake people down who'd setlle rather than go to court. Court costs money, okay the loser pays, and court costs time and you can't get a second back once its gome. Not even Bill Gates can buy it back. That's what this scum, these lawyers, are counting on.
Okay, I think its about time to increase their bandwidth requirements.
Wadda you say we suck their home page down a few hundred million times? I'm looking at the source an it sucks so bad that it has to have been spewed out by some fool using M$ FrontPage.
How about if we stuff their mail box full of porn. Wait. We don't even have to do it. We could register them on almost every porn site on the planet with some php scripts.
Notice that they don't even have a real address on their WhoIs records. Just a mail box. They don't dare show their butts in public. They KNOW they're slime.
According to http://www.panip.com/corpinfo.htm its supposedly:
PanIP
329 Laurel Street
San Diego, California
92101-1630 USA
Personally I wouldn't hold out much hope that its anything more that a sham office. The contact supposedly is using rmercado37@yahoo.com for his email.
Their IP address is 209.61.179.88 Whois Server Version 1.3 reports:
Or if arson isn't your style, you could get a goon squad to smash up their offices.
You know to let 'em wonder who they've rubbed the wrong way and if they maybe should find a safer way to make money.
Or if you'd like to do something truly evil, call the cops and report an attempted shakedown to make you pay protection money from some bogus internet fraud claim.
Any of these should take care of the problem.The last one may not bring you immediate satisfaction but it is probably the safest course.
Soon the entire dictionary will be audio-copyright except for those oh so unpronouncable chemical compound names.
Imagine what Jack Valenti would do if they made clips with a film and video camera but put the words in the mouths of a picture of the MPAA moron, Jack Valenti and wass-her-name, the RIAA bitch.
That means that the RIAA will have to attack anybody who uses the word. Eventually, the owners of Dictionaraoke will be able to sue the RIAA for copyright violation on every press release they issue. (With any luck they'll shut up a few major world so-called-leaders. Its the rethoric of failure. We are spirits in the material world.)
The truth is that we only need 17 rules for living (10 commandments & seven basic human motivational vectors, uh, deadly sins,) and the rest is just so much totally unnecessary verbiage generated by immoral authoritarian, patenalistic, chauvinistic scum as a means of telling you "DONT DO THAT!" and "DO AS I SAY!(Pay no attention to the man behing the curtain who's raping your little brother at knife point,)" or worse, by humans who are just trying to justify their continued parasitic existence. (You may say I'm a dreamer. ell I'm not the only one. I hope someday you will join us, and the world can live as one.)
I hope they don't copyright the phrase 'FUCK YOU!":-)
HEY! George Carlin is in the extremely enviable position of being able to sue most of the world for abusing his copyright on the unauthorized use of the words "FUCK, SHIT, PISS, CUNT, MOTHER-FUCKER, COCK-SUCKER AND TITS" He could become richer than Bill Gates.
The average IQ is only 100 (yeah I know, its only 100 in a room full of Einsteins. Grading on the curve, sheesh.) But lately it seems to be sinking into a kind of neanderthal imbecility and lack of critical facility that makes me wonder just how much fuckin' stupider and more ignorant is the average schmuck out there compared to ten years ago.
The lack of critical rationation combined with the improved availability of weapons and ammunition have set the stage for bloodier and bloodier episodes with less and less accomplished per shot fired.
The willingness of leaders to waste the lives of their followers and their follower's children, sometimes their followers ARE children, is another factor.
And through it all, the weapons manufacturers keep making money.
You want peace on earth? Blow up the munitions factories.
The lemon law applies if you have no recourse but expensive repairs at you own expense to a product which doesn't function as advertised.
Granted Apache should serve up web pages and FTP should transfer files and php should work on the server to generate HTML pages or whatever else you programmed it for. AS ADVERSITED...
But, with open source code, you get the source code, you get access to the entire open source community.
With open source, you get to roll you own on if you want a particular product to something nobody ever thought of making that product do.
With M$ or anyother canned software company, you'd better be able to convince them that its in their interest ($) to provide it.
With open source, you get to take out features you don't want in the product.
With M$ or anyother canned software company, you're fucked . Features NEVER disappear regardless of how stupid, downright bug-riggen, security hole prone or outright nefarious they are.
GPL'ed software comes with the source. Feeling screwed? You can DO something about it.
Their entire business plan was to make something just good enough to get noticed by M$ and sell out to 'em for a couple of mil.
Like that's real ambitious ain't it?
Right now I'm sorry I didn't take the job and that they never got noticed before the VC money ran out, but that's mainly because of Bin Laden ruining my life, career prospects and my (old) neighborhood.
Its audio collage just like visual collage.
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Mashes are using tracks as if they were "object trouvés" (found objects) and blending them in an audio collage.
This is an accepted technique in the visual arts. It does not produce great art. Its not meant to. It borrows from others to juxtrapose and blend and possibly morph in order to communicate something beyond the original pieces.
Its should and most likely will be granted the same acceptance in audio art. The concept is identical. Its an audio collage, a reassemblage of sound tracks with tempo and/or frequency shifting to create a new wortk of art.
The "Art of Noise" originally used audio samples of any machinery whatsoever and frequency shifted them to achieve different notes, assigned them to a MIDI keyboard and "played" an electric drill or a dripping faucett (evident in some versions of "Paraniomia".) Nobody sued them then.
I know that the "RIAA Bitch" is probably livid about somebody daring to use any tracks without shelling out money to the RIAA but she'll just have to get over it, make deals with the minor artists who are doing it and try to co-opt them into the xxAA's system by finding somebody who is willing to put out CDs of the stuff.
Just wait until the technology advances enough and some kid using a Mac does the same thing with a couple of movie classics (peeling the set from one and the action from another and the characters from a third. Imagine Jet Li as Audrey Hepburn in the "Philadelphia Story" re-enacting the "Tombstone" shoot-out scene set in turn of the century Vienna in Freud's office.)
Jack Valenti or his xxAA successor should go absolutely ballistic.:-)
The phrase "They said that they would meet with schools one on one to extend deadlines and be flexible" is exactly how they cut the legs off of every opponent who stands between them and more money.
They do it one client at a time, on their own schedule, at their own convenience and without anyone being able to tell anybody else of what "deal" they got.
This is a company that doesn't publish a price list, remember?
How does any single school know how good a deal they got? They don't.
And being one school places them in a bad bergaining position. Certainly far worse than if they could ALL meet M$ and, uh, negotiate.
there are disassemblers available that show you what REALLY in your code.
They'll overlay a linkage symbol table file if you've got one but its just a suggestion (obfuscation?) Some will let you overlay multiple symbol tables and create concordances between versions.
3L33t HAXORZ don't need no stinkin' symbol table.:-) These T00LZ make life so much easier.
SHIT! Its too fuckin' tiny...
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Even a kid's hand look too big on the keyboard. There's small and there's usable after fifteen generation of some, uh, serious genetic engineering.
Man, you're supposed to use a mouse to move the cursor, not to help you type by running over the keys.
DLL's were created to reduce the memory foot-print and have caused versionning headaches and compatibility problems ever since. They were a stop-gap measure to a problem that no longer exists.
Saving RAM? Who gives a fuck? Not the user. Not the developpers. And not the hardware manufacturers.
Write your code properly so you don't load the baby with the bath water and the kitchen sink into your code (trim the library's fat at link time) and the increase in executable size may still be less than the amount of RAM wasted by unused portions of the libraries.
God help America if they use ANY damn M$ product and think its secure.
There are NO internet worms, viruses or other parasities. They ALL infest M$ Windows, the gut of the beast. (Hmmmm. I'm trying to remember the last Linux Virus I ever got. Oh that's right. I have NEVER got a Linux Virus. Okay maybe I got lucky.)
M$ & Homeland Security... What a concept...
Might as well hand out jackets with dynamite and a detonator already sewn in, and a map of "homes of the senators" to every wild-eyed goat-f*cker as they get off the plane.
The problem has several facets, some of which are of our own making and some of which are endemic to the software development approach, tooling, management and processes. Our problems start with a point-of-view which I discuss last.
Until this point is addressed, we can expect artificial pénurie perpetrated to keep H1B immigration up and salaries down while the local job market is being slashed to increase worker competition, and outsourcing to the developing nations, like India.
1) Productivity. MIS productivity sucks. MIS, or Informatics or Data Processing or what ever nom-de-jour you want to use, has always been and is still being run like a trade/craft, producing hand-crafted little gems when what's needed is art by the yard.
2) Cost. As if the speed of delivery wasn't bad enough, the costs of a craft style production system are ultimately way beyond the ROI.
3) Management. MIS (mis-)management is and has always been the blind leading the ignorant. I have witnessed intercine inter and intra departmental battles worthy of medieval knights. There were no hacked off limbs (a paper cut is an occupational hazard in D.P. though when its your pink slip it cuts pretty damn deep) but people's lives have been ruined, if not ended. But that doesn't get the job done and in the end, that's what counts.
4) Policies and Procedures that proceed by divide and conquer which cut out anything which is not entirely germaine to a system's implementation are fundamentally destructive and self-defeating. The parts of any system that deserve focus are not those parts that are entirely self contained but those that interface with other systems. This ties in with the next point.
5) Architecture Its amusing that in an industry which uses and develops systems built so heavily on soit-disant relational data bases management systems (DB2, Oracle, Ingres, PostGreSQL and others,) nobody seems to understand what a relationship is.
Our systems keep focusing on the objects of a system without ever developping an understanding of the relationships involved, and the objects are basically and fundamentally monotonic and uninteresting while the relationships are what's important in a system design.
But our entire academic curriculum can't come up with or teach better, more descriptive and more realistic names for them than: is-a, has-a, has-some.
To draw a parallel with something we all see every day, there is nothing in the CompSci curriculum which teaches the difference between: a) a pallet of bricks and a sack of concrete on a loading dock, b) a common garden wall c) the Cuppola of the Piazza Duomo in Florence Italy, the largest free-standing brick and mortar dome in the world, a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture and where, on its very steps, were born the mathematics and practice of artistic perspective.
What's the difference? Its not the bricks. Its not the mortar. Its the relationships between the bricks.
Until the profession wakes up to that fact, integrates relationships as first class objects into the analysis, documentation, design and implementation of systems and starts being serious about reusing components, they're doomed in a downward spiral of H1B immigration, cost-cutting, off-shore out-sourcing and people simple doing without.
The world can't afford little hand crafted gems. It can barely afford art-by-the-yard. Think! http://wage.packet.org/ wander round the wiki.
they don't have any feed-back that's not related to SELLING their products.
But it did have their address so I'll write something and send it via snailmail.
This patent/copywrong crap is the type of bad corporate citizenship that Microsoft has taught businesses.
I didn't pay for their Adobe Type Manager on my Mac but I WILL write to Apple and suggest that they look for some open source alternative. This is getting fuckin' ridiculous.
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I'd go for that.
I did. Now I have lost of time to hack and kiss the wife. TV will NEVER enter this house or my life again. I'll never again channel hop for hours looking for anything good enough to catch my attention.
And to the advertisers, I say: When *I* want you, I *find* you. The rest is just noise.
The internet is no different from a town commons.
The pervs and your kids are in your neighborhood, along with the dope dealers and the junkies, the whores and the johns, the cops and the crooks. The worst ones are the ones who abuse the opportunities afforded them by their position in society or in their organization.
Society (you?) NEED better surveilance. Its either going to come from cameras mounted on tall poles and monitored by an expensive "security" apparatus
Or you'll just have to watch your own damn kids and neighborhood, won't you?
and raise their connection costs to slightly less that NASA.
You can't have any. And don't try licking my toilet either. I don't like sitting where its sticky.
You know that's exactly what I was predicting when the Papent Orifice started with this software patent stupidity.
Some vulture would go around and shake people down who'd setlle rather than go to court. Court costs money, okay the loser pays, and court costs time and you can't get a second back once its gome. Not even Bill Gates can buy it back. That's what this scum, these lawyers, are counting on.
Okay, I think its about time to increase their bandwidth requirements.
Wadda you say we suck their home page down a few hundred million times? I'm looking at the source an it sucks so bad that it has to have been spewed out by some fool using M$ FrontPage.
How about if we stuff their mail box full of porn. Wait. We don't even have to do it. We could register them on almost every porn site on the planet with some php scripts.
Notice that they don't even have a real address on their WhoIs records. Just a mail box. They don't dare show their butts in public. They KNOW they're slime.
According to http://www.panip.com/corpinfo.htm its supposedly:
PanIP
329 Laurel Street
San Diego, California
92101-1630 USA
Personally I wouldn't hold out much hope that its anything more that a sham office. The contact supposedly is using rmercado37@yahoo.com for his email.
Their IP address is 209.61.179.88
Whois Server Version 1.3 reports:
Domain Name: PANIP.COM
Registrar: BULKREGISTER.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.bulkregister.com
Referral URL: http://www.bulkregister.com
Updated Date: 07-feb-2002
E. D. G. E., Inc.
P. O. Box 712911
San Diego, California 92171
US
Administrative Contact and Technical Contact are both:
info@edgeinc.org
Or if arson isn't your style, you could get a goon squad to smash up their offices.
You know to let 'em wonder who they've rubbed the wrong way and if they maybe should find a safer way to make money.
Or if you'd like to do something truly evil, call the cops and report an attempted shakedown to make you pay protection money from some bogus internet fraud claim.
Any of these should take care of the problem.The last one may not bring you immediate satisfaction but it is probably the safest course.
Soon the entire dictionary will be audio-copyright except for those oh so unpronouncable chemical compound names.
:-)
Imagine what Jack Valenti would do if they made clips with a film and video camera but put the words in the mouths of a picture of the MPAA moron, Jack Valenti and wass-her-name, the RIAA bitch.
That means that the RIAA will have to attack anybody who uses the word. Eventually, the owners of Dictionaraoke will be able to sue the RIAA for copyright violation on every press release they issue. (With any luck they'll shut up a few major world so-called-leaders. Its the rethoric of failure. We are spirits in the material world.)
The truth is that we only need 17 rules for living (10 commandments & seven basic human motivational vectors, uh, deadly sins,) and the rest is just so much totally unnecessary verbiage generated by immoral authoritarian, patenalistic, chauvinistic scum as a means of telling you "DONT DO THAT!" and "DO AS I SAY!(Pay no attention to the man behing the curtain who's raping your little brother at knife point,)" or worse, by humans who are just trying to justify their continued parasitic existence. (You may say I'm a dreamer. ell I'm not the only one. I hope someday you will join us, and the world can live as one.)
I hope they don't copyright the phrase 'FUCK YOU!"
HEY! George Carlin is in the extremely enviable position of being able to sue most of the world for abusing his copyright on the unauthorized use of the words "FUCK, SHIT, PISS, CUNT, MOTHER-FUCKER, COCK-SUCKER AND TITS" He could become richer than Bill Gates.
People have always been morons.
The average IQ is only 100 (yeah I know, its only 100 in a room full of Einsteins. Grading on the curve, sheesh.) But lately it seems to be sinking into a kind of neanderthal imbecility and lack of critical facility that makes me wonder just how much fuckin' stupider and more ignorant is the average schmuck out there compared to ten years ago.
The lack of critical rationation combined with the improved availability of weapons and ammunition have set the stage for bloodier and bloodier episodes with less and less accomplished per shot fired.
The willingness of leaders to waste the lives of their followers and their follower's children, sometimes their followers ARE children, is another factor.
And through it all, the weapons manufacturers keep making money.
You want peace on earth? Blow up the munitions factories.
The lemon law applies if you have no recourse but expensive repairs at you own expense to a product which doesn't function as advertised.
Granted Apache should serve up web pages and FTP should transfer files and php should work on the server to generate HTML pages or whatever else you programmed it for. AS ADVERSITED...
But, with open source code, you get the source code, you get access to the entire open source community.
With open source, you get to roll you own on if you want a particular product to something nobody ever thought of making that product do.
With M$ or anyother canned software company, you'd better be able to convince them that its in their interest ($) to provide it.
With open source, you get to take out features you don't want in the product.
With M$ or anyother canned software company, you're fucked . Features NEVER disappear regardless of how stupid, downright bug-riggen, security hole prone or outright nefarious they are.
GPL'ed software comes with the source. Feeling screwed? You can DO something about it.
Their entire business plan was to make something just good enough to get noticed by M$ and sell out to 'em for a couple of mil.
Like that's real ambitious ain't it?
Right now I'm sorry I didn't take the job and that they never got noticed before the VC money ran out, but that's mainly because of Bin Laden ruining my life, career prospects and my (old) neighborhood.
if it was rebuilt to code. A code that onw includes
domed constructions...
I've volunteered for the Buckminster Fuller Institute ( http://www.bfi.org/ ) as a means of puting my money (or absence there of,) where my mouth is.
Fuller ranks right up there with Steve Wolfram as far as I'm concerned.
Yawn ...
Mashes are using tracks as if they were "object trouvés" (found objects) and blending them in an audio collage.
:-)
This is an accepted technique in the visual arts. It does not produce great art. Its not meant to. It borrows from others to juxtrapose and blend and possibly morph in order to communicate something beyond the original pieces.
Its should and most likely will be granted the same acceptance in audio art. The concept is identical. Its an audio collage, a reassemblage of sound tracks with tempo and/or frequency shifting to create a new wortk of art.
The "Art of Noise" originally used audio samples of any machinery whatsoever and frequency shifted them to achieve different notes, assigned them to a MIDI keyboard and "played" an electric drill or a dripping faucett (evident in some versions of "Paraniomia".) Nobody sued them then.
I know that the "RIAA Bitch" is probably livid about somebody daring to use any tracks without shelling out money to the RIAA but she'll just have to get over it, make deals with the minor artists who are doing it and try to co-opt them into the xxAA's system by finding somebody who is willing to put out CDs of the stuff.
Just wait until the technology advances enough and some kid using a Mac does the same thing with a couple of movie classics (peeling the set from one and the action from another and the characters from a third. Imagine Jet Li as Audrey Hepburn in the "Philadelphia Story" re-enacting the "Tombstone" shoot-out scene set in turn of the century Vienna in Freud's office.)
Jack Valenti or his xxAA successor should go absolutely ballistic.
The phrase "They said that they would meet with schools one on one to extend deadlines and be flexible" is exactly how they cut the legs off of every opponent who stands between them and more money.
They do it one client at a time, on their own schedule, at their own convenience and without anyone being able to tell anybody else of what "deal" they got.
This is a company that doesn't publish a price list, remember?
How does any single school know how good a deal they got? They don't.
And being one school places them in a bad bergaining position. Certainly far worse than if they could ALL meet M$ and, uh, negotiate.
there are disassemblers available that show you what REALLY in your code.
:-) These T00LZ make life so much easier.
They'll overlay a linkage symbol table file if you've got one but its just a suggestion (obfuscation?) Some will let you overlay multiple symbol tables and create concordances between versions.
3L33t HAXORZ don't need no stinkin' symbol table.
Even a kid's hand look too big on the keyboard. There's small and there's usable after fifteen generation of some, uh, serious genetic engineering.
Man, you're supposed to use a mouse to move the cursor, not to help you type by running over the keys.
Can you say "Tinkerbelle's PC?"
NEWS FLASH! PCs have become REALLY REALLY BIG.
DLL's were created to reduce the memory foot-print and have caused versionning headaches and compatibility problems ever since. They were a stop-gap measure to a problem that no longer exists.
Saving RAM? Who gives a fuck? Not the user. Not the developpers. And not the hardware manufacturers.
Write your code properly so you don't load the baby with the bath water and the kitchen sink into your code (trim the library's fat at link time) and the increase in executable size may still be less than the amount of RAM wasted by unused portions of the libraries.
Do they think all their users are morons?
Do they think that they can treat people like shit for years and years and have NOBODY wise up?
Do they think we're all going to put up with this unrepentant behavior without ever exacting retribution?
Wanna see what happend when you push Americans to far? Look at Afghanistan. The Soviets couldn't do in ten years what the Yanks did in a few months.
Mr Gates' you're pushing our buttons the wrong way.
If I owned any stock, I'd seriously think about letting Bill Gate's have it ALL back. (100% of doodly squat is still doodly squat.)
Tell Microsoft that they can take the numbers you give 'em. If they don't fuckin' like it, they can talk to the DOJ.
God help America if they use ANY damn M$ product and think its secure.
There are NO internet worms, viruses or other parasities. They ALL infest M$ Windows, the gut of the beast. (Hmmmm. I'm trying to remember the last Linux Virus I ever got. Oh that's right. I have NEVER got a Linux Virus. Okay maybe I got lucky.)
M$ & Homeland Security... What a concept...
Might as well hand out jackets with dynamite and a detonator already sewn in, and a map of "homes of the senators" to every wild-eyed goat-f*cker as they get off the plane.
does the DMCA make me a criminal? Who the fuck knows?
The problem has several facets, some of which are of our own making and some of which are endemic to the software development approach, tooling, management and processes. Our problems start with a point-of-view which I discuss last.
.
.
Until this point is addressed, we can expect artificial pénurie perpetrated to keep H1B immigration up and salaries down while the local job market is being slashed to increase worker competition, and outsourcing to the developing nations, like India.
1) Productivity. MIS productivity sucks. MIS, or Informatics or Data Processing or what ever nom-de-jour you want to use, has always been and is still being run like a trade/craft, producing hand-crafted little gems when what's needed is art by the yard.
2) Cost. As if the speed of delivery wasn't bad enough, the costs of a craft style production system are ultimately way beyond the ROI.
3) Management. MIS (mis-)management is and has always been the blind leading the ignorant. I have witnessed intercine inter and intra departmental battles worthy of medieval knights. There were no hacked off limbs (a paper cut is an occupational hazard in D.P. though when its your pink slip it cuts pretty damn deep) but people's lives have been ruined, if not ended. But that doesn't get the job done and in the end, that's what counts.
4) Policies and Procedures that proceed by divide and conquer which cut out anything which is not entirely germaine to a system's implementation are fundamentally destructive and self-defeating. The parts of any system that deserve focus are not those parts that are entirely self contained but those that interface with other systems. This ties in with the next point.
5) Architecture Its amusing that in an industry which uses and develops systems built so heavily on soit-disant relational data bases management systems (DB2, Oracle, Ingres, PostGreSQL and others,) nobody seems to understand what a relationship is
Our systems keep focusing on the objects of a system without ever developping an understanding of the relationships involved, and the objects are basically and fundamentally monotonic and uninteresting while the relationships are what's important in a system design.
But our entire academic curriculum can't come up with or teach better, more descriptive and more realistic names for them than: is-a, has-a, has-some
To draw a parallel with something we all see every day, there is nothing in the CompSci curriculum which teaches the difference between:
a) a pallet of bricks and a sack of concrete on a loading dock,
b) a common garden wall
c) the Cuppola of the Piazza Duomo in Florence Italy, the largest free-standing brick and mortar dome in the world, a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture and where, on its very steps, were born the mathematics and practice of artistic perspective.
What's the difference? Its not the bricks. Its not the mortar. Its the relationships between the bricks.
Until the profession wakes up to that fact, integrates relationships as first class objects into the analysis, documentation, design and implementation of systems and starts being serious about reusing components, they're doomed in a downward spiral of H1B immigration, cost-cutting, off-shore out-sourcing and people simple doing without.
The world can't afford little hand crafted gems. It can barely afford art-by-the-yard.
Think! http://wage.packet.org/ wander round the wiki.
It has never made sense to me that I couldn't read my M$ Word 1.0 formatted files anymore on later versions if Word.
They have in fact violated MY copyright by making MY information inaccessible to ME because I used THEIR product.
they don't have any feed-back that's not related to SELLING their products.
But it did have their address so I'll write something and send it via snailmail.
This patent/copywrong crap is the type of bad corporate citizenship that Microsoft has taught businesses.
I didn't pay for their Adobe Type Manager on my Mac but I WILL write to Apple and suggest that they look for some open source alternative.
This is getting fuckin' ridiculous.