And dude, they'll totally get around to open sourcing that real soon now, 'cause, man, they're all about the open source and shit, so just get all out of their faces and chill, bro.
Yup, first thing I thought of when I read about this was: which one of these guys has an friend or relative who's an editor? It's not what you know, it's where you can market yourself that counts.
I can't wait until one of them swipes all the money and runs, and the others turn into bitter hollow shells, with nothing better to do than report the winner to the FBI.
If you can't fight them... Put a fence around and let them devolve in peace.
Who are you talking about? Texas, or California? Actually, scrub that: Texas would describe California as "degenerating". Ain't it great when we can deal with a problem by just building higher fences?
Let me clear it up for you. "Open source" means "If you come bitching and moaning to me that I haven't freely given you enough of my time already, while being too Goddamn lazy to make any contributions of your own, then I will mock you back into the Stone Age."
Well, Ghandi said it best: first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they point out that your passport has expired, then they ignore you again.
Well, it's a kdawson post - he's notorious for posting Slashvertisements for the latest brand of rip off Snake Oil. I mean, "Linux", come on, what's that supposed to be? Some shoddy knock off of BSD/MacOS Unix? I bet it's just the periscope of a Microsoft patent submarine.
Also, they never, ever got to score with hot chicks, alien or otherwise. Scotty was married to his engines, and La Forge, well, running joke. That's hardly going to entice nerds into the field of engineering/mechanics. Still, at least it didn't raise any false expectations either.
EEE netbooks used to ship with a Linux distro. You know what killed that? Returns. Joe User booting it up, braying "The hell? Where's my Windows?" and returning it. It got so that retail salesweasels were begging people not to buy them, because they got dinged for all the returns.
Sure, me and thee don't want to pay a Windows tax - I'm writing this on an EEE with Ubuntu 10.04 - but me and thee are not a significant market.
A company run by a guy styling himself Max Seybold? How on earth could that not be trustworthy? You can't have a name like that without speaking about yourself in the 3rd person, having shoulders wide enough to land an F-18 on, and a jaw so square you could set your watch by it.
What, that didn't make sense to you? Max Seybold says that's because you're not Max Seybold, punk.
Why did my client accelerate to 90mph? I put it to you, ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, that he did not. No, it was Evil Hackzorz, doubtless acting on the orders of the Saucer People, or perhaps the Mole Men. This is technically possible - for all you know - so you must have a reasonable doubt that my client was responsible.
Appearing in a celebrity traffic trial near you in 3... 2...
>> surely you remember nodding along to the McCahill comp.infosystems.gopher post
>See, exactly my point... by the time the gopher community started to pay attention to HTTP, I'd already seen someone doing nifty things with HTTP...
Yes, we all remember Bianco Troll's Smut Shack. Ah, CindyCrawfordUnderwear.jpg, fondly we salute ye.
17 U.S.C. 1201(e) (1998)
Exception for Law Enforcement and Intelligence Activities. The DMCA permits circumvention for any lawfully authorized investigative, protective, or intelligence activity by or at the direction of a federal, state, or local law enforcement agency, or of an intelligence agency of the United States.
Oh, facts? You can use them to prove anything that's even remotely true.
(e) LAW ENFORCEMENT, INTELLIGENCE, AND OTHER GOVERNMENT ACTIVITIES- This section does not prohibit any lawfully authorized investigative, protective, information security, or intelligence activity of an officer, agent, or employee of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State, or a person acting pursuant to a contract with the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State. For purposes of this subsection, the term `information security' means activities carried out in order to identify and address the vulnerabilities of a government computer, computer system, or computer network.
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Correction: they are funding the trolls to go after Red Hat (et al). $200 million buys you a lot of lawyering. Heck, it buys you a lot of judges.
And dude, they'll totally get around to open sourcing that real soon now, 'cause, man, they're all about the open source and shit, so just get all out of their faces and chill, bro.
Yup, first thing I thought of when I read about this was: which one of these guys has an friend or relative who's an editor? It's not what you know, it's where you can market yourself that counts.
I can't wait until one of them swipes all the money and runs, and the others turn into bitter hollow shells, with nothing better to do than report the winner to the FBI.
To be fair, the Diaspora guys are now fully experienced and demonstrably successful at their core competency: marketing vapourware.
Sorry, too busy to read your long winded rant about how busy you are.
Who are you talking about? Texas, or California? Actually, scrub that: Texas would describe California as "degenerating". Ain't it great when we can deal with a problem by just building higher fences?
Let me clear it up for you. "Open source" means "If you come bitching and moaning to me that I haven't freely given you enough of my time already, while being too Goddamn lazy to make any contributions of your own, then I will mock you back into the Stone Age."
Well, Ghandi said it best: first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they point out that your passport has expired, then they ignore you again.
Well, it's a kdawson post - he's notorious for posting Slashvertisements for the latest brand of rip off Snake Oil. I mean, "Linux", come on, what's that supposed to be? Some shoddy knock off of BSD/MacOS Unix? I bet it's just the periscope of a Microsoft patent submarine.
What part of "open source" is confusing you?
Bah, O'Brien was an Affirmative Action recruit.
Speak on... who owns the inevitable patents on it? Where is the clear, explicit and irrevocable patent licensing or covenant on them?
No... no, I think I'll pass on it. You're either trusty-worthy, or you're not.
Good news, everyone...
Also, they never, ever got to score with hot chicks, alien or otherwise. Scotty was married to his engines, and La Forge, well, running joke. That's hardly going to entice nerds into the field of engineering/mechanics. Still, at least it didn't raise any false expectations either.
I prefer not to live with people who have no problem with "finding" other peoples' property. You have to invest in big locks.
EEE netbooks used to ship with a Linux distro. You know what killed that? Returns. Joe User booting it up, braying "The hell? Where's my Windows?" and returning it. It got so that retail salesweasels were begging people not to buy them, because they got dinged for all the returns.
Sure, me and thee don't want to pay a Windows tax - I'm writing this on an EEE with Ubuntu 10.04 - but me and thee are not a significant market.
What, that didn't make sense to you? Max Seybold says that's because you're not Max Seybold , punk.
Appearing in a celebrity traffic trial near you in 3... 2...
Yes, we all remember Bianco Troll's Smut Shack. Ah, CindyCrawfordUnderwear.jpg, fondly we salute ye.
Fixed that for you. You still win .3 of an Internets though for being man enough to very nearly admit to posting technobabble bullshit.
Oh, facts? You can use them to prove anything that's even remotely true.
Congratulations, sir, you win the Internets.
It's also not a stand-off because everybody is shooting.
Best result: collective fatality, i.e. they're all blocked from shipping anything. Let's see how long software patents last if that comes to pass.
Oh, I see: "When the President^W USAF does it, that means it is not illegal", right?
[citation needed]
What's that you say? Nobody buys Wii games anyway? Well, solution achieved.
Sure, when I find things, and then sell them on, I'm always scrupulously honest about the story behind the finding.