Yeah. Apple has declared itself officially Evil, and they're vastly successful. Microsoft's evil is really pretty mediocre and ineffectual these days, but man, they used to be top class at evil.
So when do we get some really evil Free Software, huh?
The anti-iPhone: the Linux telephone that operates entirely from the command line!The Ultimate One-Dimensional Desktop! What can't you do with a bash prompt?
(The v2 version will, of course, run Emacs and be programmed entirely in eLisp written on the fly.)
A Wikipedia club, to use the academic resources and databases available to a university to make the free encyclopedia better. (Or a Citizendium club, if you hate Wikipedia - CZ are working hard to recruit in academia.)
Personally, I'm eagerly awaiting the Linux-based phone where you do everything from a bash prompt. The Command Line! The Quintessential One-Dimensional Desktop!! What Linux devotee could settle for less?
Google will maintain complete confidentiality within the marketing department of whatever the browser accessed concerning your confidential business data, bank account details, medical information and personal preferences in pornography. "We're Google. We know where you live. In a completely not evil way. Sponsored link: Get Chrome Browsers on google.com. Or we'll make you use Windows Live. Ha! Ha! I'm sorry, that's my 'spreading good cheer' laugh. Really."
Because it's pissing people off in a way that's bad PR, firstly to the developers and secondly to the users. There's a reason why so many of the latter have jail-broken their iPhones - Trusted Computing sucks to be bent over for.
"Fuck it," said Steve Jobs to an audience of soul-mortgaged thralls, "we're evil. But our stuff is sooo good. You'll keep taking our abuse. You love it, you worm. Because our stuff is great. It's shiny and it's pretty and it's cool and it works. It's not like you'll go back to a Windows Mobile phone. Ha! Ha!"
It'll be where an open Linux netbook with a phone built-in crosses over with a locked-down iPhone (which is what a general-purpose computer that's been DRMed to b*ggery looks like, in case anyone wondered what Trusted Computing would feel like - capricious, arbitrary and expensive).
Your effete codecs and desktops are a drain on the minds of millions! Mental resources they could use to learn simple tools like Lisp and Haskell! Is time actually cubical in nature? Your 3D desktops and games and iTunes and shallow interfaces hide the true power, elegance and beauty of the command line! The One Dimensional Desktop, with infinite compactified dimensions hidden inside like string theory - intuitive and obvious! I wrote an Emacs macro that plays one of my Ogg Vorbis sound files any time I like! How is iTunes easier than that? What is the "4" in MPEG-4? 4 simultaneous 24 hour Days within only 1 rotation of 4 quadrant Earth! Educated evil and stupid! LINUX SHALL TRIUMPH!... I'm sorry, I meant GNU/LINUX SHALL TRIUMPH! (Sorry, Richard. Sorry. Sorry.)
Shocked, shocked I am! Evil in the telecoms industry? Never! Well, hardly ever.
Perhaps Google could develop a not evil telecoms company. (Or, as they did with the spectrum auction, play the evils off against each other and not actually spend ridiculous sums of their own money.)
I think we need a Microsoft telecoms company. Their evil has been slipping lately. It's not good enough, Mr Ballmer!
(I'm picturing Steve Ballmer with his high-pressure used car salesman shout: "EVIL! EVIL! EVIL! EVIL!" Bouncing around the stage.)
"Fuck it," said Steve Jobs to an audience of soul-mortgaged thralls, "we're evil. But our stuff is sooo good. You'll keep taking our abuse. You love it, you worm. Because our stuff is great. It's shiny and it works. It's not like you'll go back to a Windows Mobile phone. Ha! Ha!"
Steve Ballmer of Microsoft was incensed at the news. "Our evil is better than anyone's evil! No-one sweats the details of evil like Microsoft! Where's your antitrust trial, you polo-necked bozo? We've worked hard on our evil! Our Zune's as evil as an iPod any day! I won't let my kids use a lesser evil! We're going to do an ad about that! I'll be in it! With Jerry Seinfeld! Beat that! Asshole."
"Of course, we're still not evil," said Sergey Brin of Google. "You can trust us on this. Every bit of data about you, your life and the house you live in is strictly a secret between you and our marketing department. But, hypothetically, if we were evil, it's not like you're going to use Windows Live Search. Ha! Ha! I'm sorry, that's my 'spreading good cheer' laugh. Really."
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These guys are basically selling snake oil to the gullible end of the obsessive control addict market.
Yeah. Apple has declared itself officially Evil, and they're vastly successful. Microsoft's evil is really pretty mediocre and ineffectual these days, but man, they used to be top class at evil.
So when do we get some really evil Free Software, huh?
No, it's comedy marketing of snake oil.
There's a reason Macs outsell Linux.
The GNUstation! Displays to an 80x24 ASCII screen and is programmed in eLisp macros.
Jamie Zawinski.
The anti-iPhone: the Linux telephone that operates entirely from the command line! The Ultimate One-Dimensional Desktop! What can't you do with a bash prompt?
(The v2 version will, of course, run Emacs and be programmed entirely in eLisp written on the fly.)
Like I said. They're evil, but you'll willingly submit!!
There is that :-D
Mod parent up!
A Wikipedia club, to use the academic resources and databases available to a university to make the free encyclopedia better. (Or a Citizendium club, if you hate Wikipedia - CZ are working hard to recruit in academia.)
Personally, I'm eagerly awaiting the Linux-based phone where you do everything from a bash prompt. The Command Line! The Quintessential One-Dimensional Desktop!! What Linux devotee could settle for less?
Google will maintain complete confidentiality within the marketing department of whatever the browser accessed concerning your confidential business data, bank account details, medical information and personal preferences in pornography. "We're Google. We know where you live. In a completely not evil way. Sponsored link: Get Chrome Browsers on google.com. Or we'll make you use Windows Live. Ha! Ha! I'm sorry, that's my 'spreading good cheer' laugh. Really."
Because it's pissing people off in a way that's bad PR, firstly to the developers and secondly to the users. There's a reason why so many of the latter have jail-broken their iPhones - Trusted Computing sucks to be bent over for.
That was the sixties! The breasts were real then!
"Fuck it," said Steve Jobs to an audience of soul-mortgaged thralls, "we're evil. But our stuff is sooo good. You'll keep taking our abuse. You love it, you worm. Because our stuff is great. It's shiny and it's pretty and it's cool and it works. It's not like you'll go back to a Windows Mobile phone. Ha! Ha!"
It's a general-purpose computer that's been DRM-infected to hell.
It's what Trusted Computing would actually be like: capricious, arbitrary and overpriced.
It'll be where an open Linux netbook with a phone built-in crosses over with a locked-down iPhone (which is what a general-purpose computer that's been DRMed to b*ggery looks like, in case anyone wondered what Trusted Computing would feel like - capricious, arbitrary and expensive).
Star Trek had silicon-based lifeforms. Silicone-based lifeforms are a bit more like this.
ASCII ART will return! If it was good enough for blurry Teletype pr0n in the 1970s, it's good enough for you now!
Your effete codecs and desktops are a drain on the minds of millions! Mental resources they could use to learn simple tools like Lisp and Haskell! Is time actually cubical in nature? Your 3D desktops and games and iTunes and shallow interfaces hide the true power, elegance and beauty of the command line! The One Dimensional Desktop, with infinite compactified dimensions hidden inside like string theory - intuitive and obvious! I wrote an Emacs macro that plays one of my Ogg Vorbis sound files any time I like! How is iTunes easier than that? What is the "4" in MPEG-4? 4 simultaneous 24 hour Days within only 1 rotation of 4 quadrant Earth! Educated evil and stupid! LINUX SHALL TRIUMPH! ... I'm sorry, I meant GNU/LINUX SHALL TRIUMPH! (Sorry, Richard. Sorry. Sorry.)
Encoding and decoding is presently fat and slow. It's very much in development.
I'd forgotten about that one :-D
It'll be entirely secret between you and their marketing department. Honest!
Shocked, shocked I am! Evil in the telecoms industry? Never! Well, hardly ever.
Perhaps Google could develop a not evil telecoms company. (Or, as they did with the spectrum auction, play the evils off against each other and not actually spend ridiculous sums of their own money.)
I think we need a Microsoft telecoms company. Their evil has been slipping lately. It's not good enough, Mr Ballmer!
(I'm picturing Steve Ballmer with his high-pressure used car salesman shout: "EVIL! EVIL! EVIL! EVIL!" Bouncing around the stage.)
"Fuck it," said Steve Jobs to an audience of soul-mortgaged thralls, "we're evil. But our stuff is sooo good. You'll keep taking our abuse. You love it, you worm. Because our stuff is great. It's shiny and it works. It's not like you'll go back to a Windows Mobile phone. Ha! Ha!"
Steve Ballmer of Microsoft was incensed at the news. "Our evil is better than anyone's evil! No-one sweats the details of evil like Microsoft! Where's your antitrust trial, you polo-necked bozo? We've worked hard on our evil! Our Zune's as evil as an iPod any day! I won't let my kids use a lesser evil! We're going to do an ad about that! I'll be in it! With Jerry Seinfeld! Beat that! Asshole."
"Of course, we're still not evil," said Sergey Brin of Google. "You can trust us on this. Every bit of data about you, your life and the house you live in is strictly a secret between you and our marketing department. But, hypothetically, if we were evil, it's not like you're going to use Windows Live Search. Ha! Ha! I'm sorry, that's my 'spreading good cheer' laugh. Really."