Creationists, climate change deniers, the tobacco industry... they all use the same arguments. You can go through The Fine Art of Baloney Detection and find the examples right to hand.
At least the tobacco industry has mostly given up claiming smoking isn't bad for you. Now their shills are working for the climate change deniers. Yes, it's the same shills.
The number of female IT professionals in the UK is falling, according to the British Computer Society, despite similar or superior academic scores and recruitment in the sector as a whole having risen in the same timeframe. The lack of flexibility offered by employers is blamed.
"It's a free market world," said Ubuntu Linux developer Hiram Nerdboy. "It's about competence and getting the job done. Working sixteen hours a day on a project you really love is par for the course. That we're all eighteen to twenty-five is from the accelerated Internet-based learning of the new generation, not exploitation of young workers who don't know any better."
Over a third of women in IT had complained of sexism up to sexual harassment at work. "It's women who just don't have social skills," said Nerdboy. "They object to the guys freely choosing to all go down the strip club after work. They're just not team players."
Open source projects have worse figures than industry, with male to female ratios approaching fifty-to-one. Many women cite gross sexism on mailing lists and IRC. "In my experience, women just don't have a working sense of humour and can't take a joke. My girlfriend thought it was funny! Even leaving helpful comments on their blogs didn't work. 'Political correctness' is no exaggeration. Anyway, I met my girlfriend online!"
"...," said his girlfriend, RealDoll Ada.
"And it's not like you can get the applicants," added Nerdboy. "We can hardly get any girls to apply for a job here. They're obviously naturally not good enough geeks. It must be evolutionary. We need more pink computers."
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth explained that "this stuff is difficult to explain to girls" and thought they'd have gotten the hint when he called 8.04 "Hairy Hardon." "Worrying about sexism in open source just detracts from the battle for Linux. So we've put the tits back into the default desktop. And arses."
Crime-fighting geek Shuttleworth, who dresses as a billiionaire playboy by night, swore that plenty of women liked him lots and that he obviously wasn't unable to get laid or anything, having gotten seriously rich in the dot-com era, not to mention having gone into space. "Chicks dig that stuff. Trust me, I've met lots of girls. More than five!"
Canonical Community Manager Jono Bacon echoed this sentiment on his blog. "We just don't understand how come women are 15% of all computer programmers but only 1% of open source programmers. It must be a bit complicated for them. That's why I've written this spontaneous blog post, completely unrelated to anything my boss may or may not have said, on all the fantastically talented women in free software, even if none of them seem to work much on Ubuntu any more. Also, I'm absolutely confident that saying I'm in a computer geek heavy metal band will get me lots of chicks too, even if their pretty little heads can't understand Linux."
A special women's edition of Ubuntu 10.10 will be released on a bright pink CD. "It doubles as a makeup mirror!" said Shuttleworth.
You'd only be modded down for being stupidly wrong and hitting your head on every step. The licence was GFDL 1.2 Or Later, the man who determines what "Or Later" means is RMS, RMS was all for the change.
Bluntly: if you didn't want your changes released under "GFDL 1.2 Or Later", why the fuck did you add them?
ASCAP's aim in the original letter was to stop people releasing their own works under copyleft licences. This would effectively ban Wikipedia, the entire text of which is CC-by-sa. Does ASCAP really want that particular fight? (I've already suggested on foundation-l that WMF respond to this issue.)
How to know you're doing real journalism: when the powers that be are this pissed off.
The shiny-assed poltroons of the New York Times and the Murdoch press can just fuck off. Really. Whining shits that people aren't giving them free money for rewritten press releases any more. Useless fucks.
A second good free compiler will be of tremendous use to the world. gcc is fine, but competition will make both better. It'll also make open source code better, as gccisms get cleaned out of code.
Dunno if it supports everything on the laptop. I know it was very nice on a G4 800Mhz. Worth a try. Setting up dual or triple boot is somewhat painful. But hey, worth a try.
And supports more hardware. Ubuntu PPC on a Mac G4 works just the same, is a better CD/DVD burner than Tiger and supports hardware that Mac OS X doesn't.
iPhone developers are up in arms at Apple requiring them to use only Apple toolkits, sacrifice a Windows developer at their local Apple Shop every Sunday and maintain an altar to Steve Jobs in their homes. And eat a bug.
Apple is famous for its rigid control over its devices, in its quest to maintain user quality. Developers have worked under increasing restrictions in their attempts to provide quality applications for the iPhone such as I Am Rich, Magic 8 Ball and iFart.
"Not a big deal," said Mr Jobs in a personal email. "Cross-platform development leads to a worse user experience every time. Also, the video of you eating the bug has to be H.264 QuickTime or your app is out. Extra points for cockroaches."
"This clause shows a fundamental lack of understanding of the creative freedom developers need," said iPhone developer Greg Slepak. "Software is an infinitely malleable creation of pure thought. Toolkits, languages and frameworks are only a way to develop something people will want. It's like telling Rembrandt what brand of brushes he's allowed to use."
He paused to chow down on a palmetto bug for his MacBook's camera. "I'll tell you, a lot of iPhone developers are seriously considering Android, just as soon as Google develops a suitably exploitable stream of mindless thralls that will generate us a gushing torrent of money."
"Thanks for the video, Greg," said Mr Jobs, "but we've just added section 3.3.1.a: 'In particular, when Greg Slepak submits an application, the bucket of cockroaches in the video have to be Apple-branded and genetically engineered in Cupertino.' So we've rejected your application, cancelled your membership and zeroed your account.
"Of course, you're free to apply again. Or not, if you don't want a goddamn dumptruck full of money backed up to your house. It's a free country."
*cough* I *know* they were upset Google didn't call them and therefore wrote those articles. The whole point of them was to get Google to bother calling them.
It's an official FSF press release in which the FSF states that it's free software. It's not a place in their list of approved licences, but it is the FSF officially calling it free software. What you "would imagine" is incorrect - there are many licenses the FSF lists that are not GPL-compatible.
The OSI seems upset that someone has finally said "sorry, you're too arse-disabled to take seriously. You want to be taken seriously, get your shit together."
The licence is Free Software as far as the FSF and Debian are concerned.
The FSF is rather more active than the OSI, and is unlikely to, e.g., get its corporate registration suspended just because they were too arse-disabled to get their paperwork in.
We do need some sort of organisation like the OSI, perhaps even the OSI itself. But I'm entirely unsurprised someone would consider the present OSI just not to have its shit together enough to be taken seriously.
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Creationists, climate change deniers, the tobacco industry ... they all use the same arguments. You can go through The Fine Art of Baloney Detection and find the examples right to hand.
At least the tobacco industry has mostly given up claiming smoking isn't bad for you. Now their shills are working for the climate change deniers. Yes, it's the same shills.
RationalWiki (unfinished) comparative example: A comparative guide to science denial.
"A vast majority of USPTO decisions are right"
[citation needed]
The number of female IT professionals in the UK is falling, according to the British Computer Society, despite similar or superior academic scores and recruitment in the sector as a whole having risen in the same timeframe. The lack of flexibility offered by employers is blamed.
"It's a free market world," said Ubuntu Linux developer Hiram Nerdboy. "It's about competence and getting the job done. Working sixteen hours a day on a project you really love is par for the course. That we're all eighteen to twenty-five is from the accelerated Internet-based learning of the new generation, not exploitation of young workers who don't know any better."
Over a third of women in IT had complained of sexism up to sexual harassment at work. "It's women who just don't have social skills," said Nerdboy. "They object to the guys freely choosing to all go down the strip club after work. They're just not team players."
Open source projects have worse figures than industry, with male to female ratios approaching fifty-to-one. Many women cite gross sexism on mailing lists and IRC. "In my experience, women just don't have a working sense of humour and can't take a joke. My girlfriend thought it was funny! Even leaving helpful comments on their blogs didn't work. 'Political correctness' is no exaggeration. Anyway, I met my girlfriend online!"
"...," said his girlfriend, RealDoll Ada.
"And it's not like you can get the applicants," added Nerdboy. "We can hardly get any girls to apply for a job here. They're obviously naturally not good enough geeks. It must be evolutionary. We need more pink computers."
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth explained that "this stuff is difficult to explain to girls" and thought they'd have gotten the hint when he called 8.04 "Hairy Hardon." "Worrying about sexism in open source just detracts from the battle for Linux. So we've put the tits back into the default desktop. And arses."
Crime-fighting geek Shuttleworth, who dresses as a billiionaire playboy by night, swore that plenty of women liked him lots and that he obviously wasn't unable to get laid or anything, having gotten seriously rich in the dot-com era, not to mention having gone into space. "Chicks dig that stuff. Trust me, I've met lots of girls. More than five!"
Canonical Community Manager Jono Bacon echoed this sentiment on his blog. "We just don't understand how come women are 15% of all computer programmers but only 1% of open source programmers. It must be a bit complicated for them. That's why I've written this spontaneous blog post, completely unrelated to anything my boss may or may not have said, on all the fantastically talented women in free software, even if none of them seem to work much on Ubuntu any more. Also, I'm absolutely confident that saying I'm in a computer geek heavy metal band will get me lots of chicks too, even if their pretty little heads can't understand Linux."
A special women's edition of Ubuntu 10.10 will be released on a bright pink CD. "It doubles as a makeup mirror!" said Shuttleworth.
You'd only be modded down for being stupidly wrong and hitting your head on every step. The licence was GFDL 1.2 Or Later, the man who determines what "Or Later" means is RMS, RMS was all for the change.
Bluntly: if you didn't want your changes released under "GFDL 1.2 Or Later", why the fuck did you add them?
Some say this just happened. And ASCAP has been running anti-CC campaigns for a few years now, those need mention.
ASCAP's aim in the original letter was to stop people releasing their own works under copyleft licences. This would effectively ban Wikipedia, the entire text of which is CC-by-sa. Does ASCAP really want that particular fight? (I've already suggested on foundation-l that WMF respond to this issue.)
Like releasing Pentagon plans regarding the Vietnam war and what happened regarding the Watergate breakin: "real journalism"
I believe Sir is speaking of StatusNet and identi.ca.
If they're going to sell ads, why not sell ads that look like ads? Why do they have to mess around with insinuating them into the service?
I mean, I pay nothing to post on Twitter. Put an ad in the corner. I promise not to run away.
How to know you're doing real journalism: when the powers that be are this pissed off.
The shiny-assed poltroons of the New York Times and the Murdoch press can just fuck off. Really. Whining shits that people aren't giving them free money for rewritten press releases any more. Useless fucks.
Boycott the shitty, shitty press. Tell them why. Give money to Wikileaks.
So they'll become part of the next standard ;-)
A second good free compiler will be of tremendous use to the world. gcc is fine, but competition will make both better. It'll also make open source code better, as gccisms get cleaned out of code.
Dunno if it supports everything on the laptop. I know it was very nice on a G4 800Mhz. Worth a try. Setting up dual or triple boot is somewhat painful. But hey, worth a try.
And supports more hardware. Ubuntu PPC on a Mac G4 works just the same, is a better CD/DVD burner than Tiger and supports hardware that Mac OS X doesn't.
iPhone developers are up in arms at Apple requiring them to use only Apple toolkits, sacrifice a Windows developer at their local Apple Shop every Sunday and maintain an altar to Steve Jobs in their homes. And eat a bug.
Apple is famous for its rigid control over its devices, in its quest to maintain user quality. Developers have worked under increasing restrictions in their attempts to provide quality applications for the iPhone such as I Am Rich, Magic 8 Ball and iFart.
"Not a big deal," said Mr Jobs in a personal email. "Cross-platform development leads to a worse user experience every time. Also, the video of you eating the bug has to be H.264 QuickTime or your app is out. Extra points for cockroaches."
"This clause shows a fundamental lack of understanding of the creative freedom developers need," said iPhone developer Greg Slepak. "Software is an infinitely malleable creation of pure thought. Toolkits, languages and frameworks are only a way to develop something people will want. It's like telling Rembrandt what brand of brushes he's allowed to use."
He paused to chow down on a palmetto bug for his MacBook's camera. "I'll tell you, a lot of iPhone developers are seriously considering Android, just as soon as Google develops a suitably exploitable stream of mindless thralls that will generate us a gushing torrent of money."
"Thanks for the video, Greg," said Mr Jobs, "but we've just added section 3.3.1.a: 'In particular, when Greg Slepak submits an application, the bucket of cockroaches in the video have to be Apple-branded and genetically engineered in Cupertino.' So we've rejected your application, cancelled your membership and zeroed your account.
"Of course, you're free to apply again. Or not, if you don't want a goddamn dumptruck full of money backed up to your house. It's a free country."
They had a lot of trouble accounting for quad bikes.
*cough* I *know* they were upset Google didn't call them and therefore wrote those articles. The whole point of them was to get Google to bother calling them.
In what way does what I wrote do that?
The Simon Phipps article linked is *precisely* being upset Google didn't bother to call them. As is the Michael Tiemann one.
It's an official FSF press release in which the FSF states that it's free software. It's not a place in their list of approved licences, but it is the FSF officially calling it free software. What you "would imagine" is incorrect - there are many licenses the FSF lists that are not GPL-compatible.
One of the problems with VP8 is that the present definition includes bits of C code ;-) Xiph is one of the organisations working on cleaning it up.
The OSI seems upset that someone has finally said "sorry, you're too arse-disabled to take seriously. You want to be taken seriously, get your shit together."
The licence is Free Software as far as the FSF and Debian are concerned.
Has anyone run it past debian-legal yet? That would also be a credible mark of acceptability as free software.
Note that WebM is, however, FSF-approved Free Software.
The FSF is rather more active than the OSI, and is unlikely to, e.g., get its corporate registration suspended just because they were too arse-disabled to get their paperwork in.
We do need some sort of organisation like the OSI, perhaps even the OSI itself. But I'm entirely unsurprised someone would consider the present OSI just not to have its shit together enough to be taken seriously.
Some say this has already happened. I use Chromium nightlies that include VP8 and use YouTube's HTML5 VP8. It's lovely.