Sorry, but that was just silly. I wouldn't have modded it as a troll, but you seem to have trouble with the fact of U.S. dominance over the rest of the world.
American English isn't incorrect, flawed, or whatever word you choose to use — it's just different. Do you also rail against the Italians and Spanish for constantly misspelling Latin words? Do you think that the English language just sprung up one day out of thin air, identical to the way it's used in the United Kingdom today? Perhaps you should castigate the editors of the OED for butchering the spellings of the words from which English evolved. See, language evolves.
Secondly, as another poster said, American English is the language of the Internet. Didn't you ever notice that the W3C's own recommendations use "color," not "colour?" Besides, if you look at the countries where English is the native language and which have played the largest roles in the Internet (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S.), the population of the U.S. easily doubles the combined populations of the rest of them (~280 million - ~120 million).
Aren't there any more important battles out there that you could be fighting?
It's always the perfect time for hypocrisy! What better way to promote freedom than to introduce yet even more restrictions?! Hopefully this will be the final straw that forced people to see through the facade that is the GPL. The BSD license has never looked better, especially with that bullshit ASP exception proposed for the GPL.
Oh yeah, it's just wonderful news for the movement to see that one of the strongest supporters of cross-platform retail releases has decided that it's just not worth it anymore. If you want to say that there's a silver lining to this news, fine; but to claim it to be good news itself makes me feel embarrassed for you and for the people who modded you up. It's shameless, and even though everyone knows it, I'm sure I'll get modded down for pointing it out.
I hate to compare this to a hot-button political issue, because some people will be against the argument just because they're mad at the analogy (so I suppose that getting modded down for this part wouldn't be too unfair), but the situations are too similar, so here goes. Your post totally reminded me of Al Gore's speech on Monday where he stood smiling before the cameras and told America that his losing in front of the Supreme Court wasn't bad, and in his eyes, wasn't even a neutral thing, but actually a good thing, because it gave him a roadmap for his lawyers in future cases. I didn't even see one single person, not the shillingest of the shills, actually try to defend him on that one.
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Yeah, except for the game company, unless you think that they're in the charity business. And, well, they do happen to be quite an important part of the process. I'm sure they'd be ecstatic at getting nothing in return while having a community of vultures take their code for free.
Well, post #3 said "Stick with a winner. Stick with Linux." It was only proper that the evidence be shown which proves Linux to be anything but a winner. Unless by "winner," you mean "incredible money-loser".
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American English isn't incorrect, flawed, or whatever word you choose to use — it's just different. Do you also rail against the Italians and Spanish for constantly misspelling Latin words? Do you think that the English language just sprung up one day out of thin air, identical to the way it's used in the United Kingdom today? Perhaps you should castigate the editors of the OED for butchering the spellings of the words from which English evolved. See, language evolves.
Secondly, as another poster said, American English is the language of the Internet. Didn't you ever notice that the W3C's own recommendations use "color," not "colour?" Besides, if you look at the countries where English is the native language and which have played the largest roles in the Internet (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S.), the population of the U.S. easily doubles the combined populations of the rest of them (~280 million - ~120 million).
Aren't there any more important battles out there that you could be fighting?
It's always the perfect time for hypocrisy! What better way to promote freedom than to introduce yet even more restrictions?! Hopefully this will be the final straw that forced people to see through the facade that is the GPL. The BSD license has never looked better, especially with that bullshit ASP exception proposed for the GPL.
I hate to compare this to a hot-button political issue, because some people will be against the argument just because they're mad at the analogy (so I suppose that getting modded down for this part wouldn't be too unfair), but the situations are too similar, so here goes. Your post totally reminded me of Al Gore's speech on Monday where he stood smiling before the cameras and told America that his losing in front of the Supreme Court wasn't bad, and in his eyes, wasn't even a neutral thing, but actually a good thing, because it gave him a roadmap for his lawyers in future cases. I didn't even see one single person, not the shillingest of the shills, actually try to defend him on that one.
Yeah, except for the game company, unless you think that they're in the charity business. And, well, they do happen to be quite an important part of the process. I'm sure they'd be ecstatic at getting nothing in return while having a community of vultures take their code for free.
Hey, couldn't expect me to pass up the readership that a #4 post gets, could ya? :)
Winners don't go bankrupt.
Well, post #3 said "Stick with a winner. Stick with Linux." It was only proper that the evidence be shown which proves Linux to be anything but a winner. Unless by "winner," you mean "incredible money-loser".