... , after all he said Israel has got a shitty army because they don't have the capacity to invade Peru (all those arab armies back in '48 '56 '67 '73 '82 are soooooo relieved to learn). No joke. Do a search on his Clueless site. He's such an id**t.
No, scientology isn't banned. It's beeing denied the taxation status of religions as it is categorized as a for-profit organization; it is being observed by the "Verfassungsschutz" (federal agency for the protection of the constitution) as it is aiming for domination and therefore ultimately aiming at the removal of the constitution.
Everybody should be aware of how disastrous attacks on modern railways can be: on the 3rd of July 1998 a high speed train of DB derailed at 200 KM/H because of a technical defect, killing 101 people and wounding 108. This is comparable to an aircraft crash. Considering that nowadays speeds of 200 to 300 KM/H aren't uncommon, I bet some Al Quaida nut head is already studying the possibility of a terrorist attack on such a train.
Do you have any understanding for people telling how to replicate 9/11? I don't.
- the church of scientology bitched mightily against the German government because it removed it's religious non-profit tax status to replace it with a for-profit organization status. They love money remember. The church of scientology is being observed by the "Verfassungsschutz" (lit. = federal agency for the protection of the constitution) because it's been established by court that it has near-totalitarian goals (i.e. domination) that threatens the constitution. Other than that it operates just as freely as in the US (they bugged me, I've had their material in my mailbox, etc.).
- this is a Perl world: there's more than one way to do it (I mean democracy here). The US constitution works fine for Americans, the German constitution works fine for Germans, etc. A constitution reflects the preferences and experiences of the people who live with it (and ultimately write it). There isn't any such thing as a supremely democratic and freedom-maximizing constitution, as the many rights we enjoy collide frequently. Therefore, your sentence "it makes me grateful that I live where I live, despite its many problems" applies to many countries, and to my understanding it means that you like the constitution you live with. That's great.
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The point of a memo is to get some message across to everybody at aD. The mere use of the holocaust analogy overlays the engeneering issue with an unrelated emotional issue up to the point that no readers cares about what his sick and tortuous tried mind to get across. That's incredibly clumsy and proves that philg is a total management failure as he doesn't even masters the basics of human communication. I would've fired him on the spot.
I recall previous pieces of Redmond-FUD claiming Open Source Software to be un-American and relating the FSF with communism. This is pretty much the type of discourse Senator McCarthy et al made in the mid-50's in the US at the peek of the cold war witch hunt.
The ironical thing about all this, is that MS's attitude towards information (or shall I say disinformation ? ) and public relations is so similar to that of the Soviet Union: keep all things secret (the source) and keep churning out propaganda as a way of life. Is "shared source" some kind of Glasnost and will MS collapse just as the Soviet Union did ?
Another thing that strikes me is how un-efficient (if not even counter-productive !) MS has been with its FUD lately. I just can't find any report about their efforts on the mainstream web medias that is not critical. They have very little credibility.
MS FUD outbursts are really entertaining, you can feel the "Titanic hit iceberg" desperation comming thru.
But... what will we all rant and laugh about in 3/4 years time when it's all over ? What will Slashdot an The Reg do without them ? Hell, we need MS FUD ! It's time to initiate a think tank to stage a "Save the MS T-Rex" campaign". Is savemstrex.org still available ?
You can take every chance to rant, or you can try to destillate the whole thing down to some useful message for yourself.
To me the message is: something went wrong with the Gnome project. And thinking of it, it could get worse:
Eazel files for bankrupcy
Ximian follows
Sun, HP lose interest
Gnome app developers lose interest
Gnome developers lose interest
Gnome loses momentum
Gnome is history
Getting VCs and Big Corp money and interest so deep into an OSS project doesn't boost it. On the contrary, the core motivations of the OSS developers get overlayed by typical corporate problems like turning a profit, defining a strategy, managing things and people, PR and marketing, and so on... OSS is more than just a license issue, it's about enthusiasm and faith, it's a community process where corporate interests are a nuissance. Why else does MS churn out Windows (because it's all wrong) while the OSS-community churns out Linux (because it's all right) ? Why else doesn't Mozilla succeed (too much Netscape in there) ? To all Gnome developers: kick the VCs out and ignore Sun and HP before it's too late.
There's a say here in Germany about SAP:
first they charge you with 1 mio. DM for the software, then they suck 10 mio. out of your pocket in implementation, customization, consulting and support.
By the way, there is no such thing as price transparency in the licence area - it's all very much a negociation thing where a whole set of complex "soft" and "hard" parameters are beeing considered (company size, prestige, competition,... )
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... , after all he said Israel has got a shitty army because they don't have the capacity to invade Peru (all those arab armies back in '48 '56 '67 '73 '82 are soooooo relieved to learn). No joke. Do a search on his Clueless site. He's such an id**t.
No, scientology isn't banned. It's beeing denied the taxation status of religions as it is categorized as a for-profit organization; it is being observed by the "Verfassungsschutz" (federal agency for the protection of the constitution) as it is aiming for domination and therefore ultimately aiming at the removal of the constitution.
Everybody should be aware of how disastrous attacks on modern railways can be: on the 3rd of July 1998 a high speed train of DB derailed at 200 KM/H because of a technical defect, killing 101 people and wounding 108. This is comparable to an aircraft crash. Considering that nowadays speeds of 200 to 300 KM/H aren't uncommon, I bet some Al Quaida nut head is already studying the possibility of a terrorist attack on such a train.
Do you have any understanding for people telling how to replicate 9/11? I don't.
A couple of remarks:
- the church of scientology bitched mightily against the German government because it removed it's religious non-profit tax status to replace it with a for-profit organization status. They love money remember. The church of scientology is being observed by the "Verfassungsschutz" (lit. = federal agency for the protection of the constitution) because it's been established by court that it has near-totalitarian goals (i.e. domination) that threatens the constitution. Other than that it operates just as freely as in the US (they bugged me, I've had their material in my mailbox, etc.).
- this is a Perl world: there's more than one way to do it (I mean democracy here). The US constitution works fine for Americans, the German constitution works fine for Germans, etc. A constitution reflects the preferences and experiences of the people who live with it (and ultimately write it). There isn't any such thing as a supremely democratic and freedom-maximizing constitution, as the many rights we enjoy collide frequently. Therefore, your sentence "it makes me grateful that I live where I live, despite its many problems" applies to many countries, and to my understanding it means that you like the constitution you live with. That's great.
The point of a memo is to get some message across to everybody at aD. The mere use of the holocaust analogy overlays the engeneering issue with an unrelated emotional issue up to the point that no readers cares about what his sick and tortuous tried mind to get across. That's incredibly clumsy and proves that philg is a total management failure as he doesn't even masters the basics of human communication. I would've fired him on the spot.
I recall previous pieces of Redmond-FUD claiming Open Source Software to be un-American and relating the FSF with communism. This is pretty much the type of discourse Senator McCarthy et al made in the mid-50's in the US at the peek of the cold war witch hunt.
The ironical thing about all this, is that MS's attitude towards information (or shall I say disinformation ? ) and public relations is so similar to that of the Soviet Union: keep all things secret (the source) and keep churning out propaganda as a way of life. Is "shared source" some kind of Glasnost and will MS collapse just as the Soviet Union did ?
Another thing that strikes me is how un-efficient (if not even counter-productive !) MS has been with its FUD lately. I just can't find any report about their efforts on the mainstream web medias that is not critical. They have very little credibility.
MS FUD outbursts are really entertaining, you can feel the "Titanic hit iceberg" desperation comming thru. ... what will we all rant and laugh about in 3/4 years time when it's all over ? What will Slashdot an The Reg do without them ? Hell, we need MS FUD ! It's time to initiate a think tank to stage a "Save the MS T-Rex" campaign". Is savemstrex.org still available ?
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You can take every chance to rant, or you can try to destillate the whole thing down to some useful message for yourself.
To me the message is: something went wrong with the Gnome project. And thinking of it, it could get worse:
- Eazel files for bankrupcy
- Ximian follows
- Sun, HP lose interest
- Gnome app developers lose interest
- Gnome developers lose interest
- Gnome loses momentum
- Gnome is history
Getting VCs and Big Corp money and interest so deep into an OSS project doesn't boost it. On the contrary, the core motivations of the OSS developers get overlayed by typical corporate problems like turning a profit, defining a strategy, managing things and people, PR and marketing, and so onThat's the message - Listen and learn
There's a say here in Germany about SAP: first they charge you with 1 mio. DM for the software, then they suck 10 mio. out of your pocket in implementation, customization, consulting and support.
By the way, there is no such thing as price transparency in the licence area - it's all very much a negociation thing where a whole set of complex "soft" and "hard" parameters are beeing considered (company size, prestige, competition,