I love the Star Wars movies as much as the next guy, but there is no escaping the fact that George Lucas is a money-grubber. (Sorry, but it's true...for further evidence see the release of the box-set of the first three movies immediately prior to the "enhanced" versions) Of/course/ he wants to sell copies on both VHS and DVD. It doesn't detract from the quality of any of the movies, but it might give us a little insight as to how Colonel Sanders wound up wielding a light saber in a TV ad. Hell, he wasn't even a real Colonel...I'll _never_ believe that he was a Jedi!
A chip on your fork telling you not to eat so fast? A chip on your TV telling you not to sit so close? WTF...bring on the Orbital Mind Control Lasers:)
With the initial success and media coverage of the Red Hat and VA Linux IPOs, it seems clear to me that these sorts of lame-ass phonies (Linuxone...and others?) were bound to come along. I hate to say it, but there will probably be more of them. Unfortunately, until the phonies are tried and then _fail_, (as we know that they will) only then will the stock-buying, NBC-watching, ignorant "public" know who is really behind open-source and Linux. Now, I could have sworn that I read about Linuxone some months ago on/., and I thought that they just went away and forgot about this whole IPO thing. Nobody knew anything about them then, and nobody knows who they are now. With a little luck, the popular media will suss that they haven't got anything to offer, and their IPO will fail miserably. To the casual observer, this might look like a black eye on the face of Linux/open-source. But to anyone who is actually paying attention, it might keep them from trying another misguided, half-assed attempt at cashing in on what really is a Good Thing. (IMHO, of course...)
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I love the Star Wars movies as much as the next guy, but there is no escaping the fact that George Lucas is a money-grubber. (Sorry, but it's true...for further evidence see the release of the box-set of the first three movies immediately prior to the "enhanced" versions) Of /course/ he wants to sell copies on both VHS and DVD. It doesn't detract from the quality of any of the movies, but it might give us a little insight as to how Colonel Sanders wound up wielding a light saber in a TV ad. Hell, he wasn't even a real Colonel...I'll _never_ believe that he was a Jedi!
A chip on your fork telling you not to eat so fast? A chip on your TV telling you not to sit so close? WTF...bring on the Orbital Mind Control Lasers :)
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With the initial success and media coverage of the Red Hat and VA Linux IPOs, it seems clear to me that these sorts of lame-ass phonies (Linuxone...and others?) were bound to come along. I hate to say it, but there will probably be more of them. Unfortunately, until the phonies are tried and then _fail_, (as we know that they will) only then will the stock-buying, NBC-watching, ignorant "public" know who is really behind open-source and Linux. /., and I thought that they just went away and forgot about this whole IPO thing. Nobody knew anything about them then, and nobody knows who they are now. With a little luck, the popular media will suss that they haven't got anything to offer, and their IPO will fail miserably. To the casual observer, this might look like a black eye on the face of Linux/open-source. But to anyone who is actually paying attention, it might keep them from trying another misguided, half-assed attempt at cashing in on what really is a Good Thing. (IMHO, of course...)
Now, I could have sworn that I read about Linuxone some months ago on