"Easier to learn with free software"??? On what assumption do you base THIS fallacy? Microsoft PAY authors to write tutorials. All your blessed "free software" cronies can muster are the occasional poorly worded HOWTOs.
I can't wait to see you begging on the street for food, lgdutra@ig.com.br. That's where you came from, after all.
Poverty in the third world is endemic to the "give me free stuff" third world attitude.
Why should the mentally retarded be permitted to live. We exist in a society which mollycoddles the psychologically weak, in order that the silent majority of mentally competent individuals may feel 'good' about themselves.
This is a lie. The mentally handicapped are foul, misshapen creatures, drooling, dribbling, and hollering their way around city centres the world over. Desperately fucking each other in order to produce more of their filthy breed. No sane woman would touch a retard, which is why they are forced into lives of rape and pedophilia in order to sate their urges.
The liberal 'elite' should take a leaf out of their beloved Taliban's book. In Afghanistan, any child found defective was taken away from it's mother upon birth, laid on a flat rock, whilst another flat rock is placed firmly upon it's placenta-coated body, and the freak is crushed. The mother is then taken into the local football stadium and stoned to death for producing such a blasphemous taunt against 'allah'. This is all in accordance with the Koran.
Clearly, it is in the best interests of society that this cancer be cut out at the source. If the intelligensia are too squeamish about forced euthanasia, then mass sterilisation would be a viable option. Eventually, these weak minded parasites, barely aware of their surroundings, can be eliminated, thus making society a safer place for all.
Why should the mentally retarded be permitted to live. We exist in a society which mollycoddles the psychologically weak, in order that the silent majority of mentally competent individuals may feel 'good' about themselves.
This is a lie. The mentally handicapped are foul, misshapen creatures, drooling, dribbling, and hollering their way around city centres the world over. Desperately fucking each other in order to produce more of their filthy breed. No sane woman would touch a retard, which is why they are forced into lives of rape and pedophilia in order to sate their urges.
The liberal 'elite' should take a leaf out of their beloved Taliban's book. In Afghanistan, any child found defective was taken away from it's mother upon birth, laid on a flat rock, whilst another flat rock is placed firmly upon it's placenta-coated body, and the freak is crushed. The mother is then taken into the local football stadium and stoned to death for producing such a blasphemous taunt against 'allah'. This is all in accordance with the Koran.
Clearly, it is in the best interests of society that this cancer be cut out at the source. If the intelligensia are too squeamish about forced euthanasia, then mass sterilisation would be a viable option. Eventually, these weak minded parasites, barely aware of their surroundings, can be eliminated, thus making society a safer place for all.
Why should the mentally retarded be permitted to live. We exist in a society which mollycoddles the psychologically weak, in order that the silent majority of mentally competent individuals may feel 'good' about themselves.
This is a lie. The mentally handicapped are foul, misshapen creatures, drooling, dribbling, and hollering their way around city centres the world over. Desperately fucking each other in order to produce more of their filthy breed. No sane woman would touch a retard, which is why they are forced into lives of rape and pedophilia in order to sate their urges.
The liberal 'elite' should take a leaf out of their beloved Taliban's book. In Afghanistan, any child found defective was taken away from it's mother upon birth, laid on a flat rock, whilst another flat rock is placed firmly upon it's placenta-coated body, and the freak is crushed. The mother is then taken into the local football stadium and stoned to death for producing such a blasphemous taunt against 'allah'. This is all in accordance with the Koran.
Clearly, it is in the best interests of society that this cancer be cut out at the source. If the intelligensia are too squeamish about forced euthanasia, then mass sterilisation would be a viable option. Eventually, these weak minded parasites, barely aware of their surroundings, can be eliminated, thus making society a safer place for all.
Why should the mentally retarded be permitted to live. We exist in a society which mollycoddles the psychologically weak, in order that the silent majority of mentally competent individuals may feel 'good' about themselves.
This is a lie. The mentally handicapped are foul, misshapen creatures, drooling, dribbling, and hollering their way around city centres the world over. Desperately fucking each other in order to produce more of their filthy breed. No sane woman would touch a retard, which is why they are forced into lives of rape and pedophilia in order to sate their urges.
The liberal 'elite' should take a leaf out of their beloved Taliban's book. In Afghanistan, any child found defective was taken away from it's mother upon birth, laid on a flat rock, whilst another flat rock is placed firmly upon it's placenta-coated body, and the freak is crushed. The mother is then taken into the local football stadium and stoned to death for producing such a blasphemous taunt against 'allah'. This is all in accordance with the Koran.
Clearly, it is in the best interests of society that this cancer be cut out at the source. If the intelligensia are too squeamish about forced euthanasia, then mass sterilisation would be a viable option. Eventually, these weak minded parasites, barely aware of their surroundings, can be eliminated, thus making society a safer place for all.
Why should the mentally retarded be permitted to live. We exist in a society which mollycoddles the psychologically weak, in order that the silent majority of mentally competent individuals may feel 'good' about themselves.
This is a lie. The mentally handicapped are foul, misshapen creatures, drooling, dribbling, and hollering their way around city centres the world over. Desperately fucking each other in order to produce more of their filthy breed. No sane woman would touch a retard, which is why they are forced into lives of rape and pedophilia in order to sate their urges.
The liberal 'elite' should take a leaf out of their beloved Taliban's book. In Afghanistan, any child found defective was taken away from it's mother upon birth, laid on a flat rock, whilst another flat rock is placed firmly upon it's placenta-coated body, and the freak is crushed. The mother is then taken into the local football stadium and stoned to death for producing such a blasphemous taunt against 'allah'. This is all in accordance with the Koran.
Clearly, it is in the best interests of society that this cancer be cut out at the source. If the intelligensia are too squeamish about forced euthanasia, then mass sterilisation would be a viable option. Eventually, these weak minded parasites, barely aware of their surroundings, can be eliminated, thus making society a safer place for all.
Why should the mentally retarded be permitted to live. We exist in a society which mollycoddles the psychologically weak, in order that the silent majority of mentally competent individuals may feel 'good' about themselves.
This is a lie. The mentally handicapped are foul, misshapen creatures, drooling, dribbling, and hollering their way around city centres the world over. Desperately fucking each other in order to produce more of their filthy breed. No sane woman would touch a retard, which is why they are forced into lives of rape and pedophilia in order to sate their urges.
The liberal 'elite' should take a leaf out of their beloved Taliban's book. In Afghanistan, any child found defective was taken away from it's mother upon birth, laid on a flat rock, whilst another flat rock is placed firmly upon it's placenta-coated body, and the freak is crushed. The mother is then taken into the local football stadium and stoned to death for producing such a blasphemous taunt against 'allah'. This is all in accordance with the Koran.
Clearly, it is in the best interests of society that this cancer be cut out at the source. If the intelligensia are too squeamish about forced euthanasia, then mass sterilisation would be a viable option. Eventually, these weak minded parasites, barely aware of their surroundings, can be eliminated, thus making society a safer place for all.
Why should the mentally retarded be permitted to live. We exist in a society which mollycoddles the psychologically weak, in order that the silent majority of mentally competent individuals may feel 'good' about themselves.
This is a lie. The mentally handicapped are foul, misshapen creatures, drooling, dribbling, and hollering their way around city centres the world over. Desperately fucking each other in order to produce more of their filthy breed. No sane woman would touch a retard, which is why they are forced into lives of rape and pedophilia in order to sate their urges.
The liberal 'elite' should take a leaf out of their beloved Taliban's book. In Afghanistan, any child found defective was taken away from it's mother upon birth, laid on a flat rock, whilst another flat rock is placed firmly upon it's placenta-coated body, and the freak is crushed. The mother is then taken into the local football stadium and stoned to death for producing such a blasphemous taunt against 'allah'. This is all in accordance with the Koran.
Clearly, it is in the best interests of society that this cancer be cut out at the source. If the intelligensia are too squeamish about forced euthanasia, then mass sterilisation would be a viable option. Eventually, these weak minded parasites, barely aware of their surroundings, can be eliminated, thus making society a safer place for all.
Nothing but a smile. Your confidence shall win over your workmates. If they ask you where your trousers are, and why you have feces caked to the backs of your legs, feign surprise and ask them what they're talking about. For you are dressed normally, and it is THEIR problem.
Why should the mentally retarded be permitted to live. We exist in a society which mollycoddles the psychologically weak, in order that the silent majority of mentally competent individuals may feel 'good' about themselves.
This is a lie. The mentally handicapped are foul, misshapen creatures, drooling, dribbling, and hollering their way around city centres the world over. Desperately fucking each other in order to produce more of their filthy breed. No sane woman would touch a retard, which is why they are forced into lives of rape and pedophilia in order to sate their urges.
The liberal 'elite' should take a leaf out of their beloved Taliban's book. In Afghanistan, any child found defective was taken away from it's mother upon birth, laid on a flat rock, whilst another flat rock is placed firmly upon it's placenta-coated body, and the freak is crushed. The mother is then taken into the local football stadium and stoned to death for producing such a blasphemous taunt against 'allah'. This is all in accordance with the Koran.
Clearly, it is in the best interests of society that this cancer be cut out at the source. If the intelligensia are too squeamish about forced euthanasia, then mass sterilisation would be a viable option. Eventually, these weak minded parasites, barely aware of their surroundings, can be eliminated, thus making society a safer place for all.
A surprised and dismayed Richard M Stallman says Gnome project founder Miguel de Icaza owes the community an explanation for comments made to The Register, last week, in which de Icaza advocated basing the project on Microsoft.NET APIs.
"I can't believe it's Gnome you're talking about but if it is, I wouldn't like that," Stallman told an audience at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil last week.
Stallman only learned of de Icaza's intentions to slip the Mono project - based on Microsoft's.NET framework - into Gnome as "the natural technology upgrade" when asked by the audience.
Gnome - the GNU Object Model - is the part of the GNU Project, started by Stallman in 1985.
"I didn't know he was doing that, I find that very hard to believe," he said.
"We would like him to come to the free software community and explain himself to us about it."
Brazilian tech site HotBits has more details here, with a number of other snippets of RMS on globalization, and GNU matters, accessible from the current edition's front page. We're grateful to Reneta Aquino for providing us with a translation.
Outraged Gnome users were mailing us over the weekend vowing to abandon the platform, and GnomeVFS maintainer Ian McKellar (who we inexplicably missed when we called in on Danger the other week) took a swipe at Miguel on the Gnome hackers mailing list: "You don't speak for me and you don't speak for most of the Gnome developers I know". (He also takes a sideswipe at us - we're "usually full of FUD and lies," apparently).
However , Miguel has been entirely consistent. From our own interview at the time of the Mono announcement, to this recent Q&A, he's justified Mono primarily is a better technology infrastructure for Gnome.
So if you didn't see this one coming, you simply haven't been paying attention.
Nor has Miguel made any secret of his ambitions to enrich the software libre desktop with more sophisticated infrastructure, using Microsoft Windows as the model. The Bonobo technology was designed to provide a lightweight compound architecture inspired by The Beast's COM, and there was even a Gnome Basic scripting language mooted at one point.
Miguel has told reporters that only an immigration technicality prevented him from becoming a Microsoft employee four years ago - the small print of the H1-B Visa process disqualifies students who haven't completed their degree course.
Sheep in wolf's cloning
With the community gathering at LinuxToday, to discuss the wisdom of the suggestion, a couple of interesting areas have emerged.
One of the justifications offered for Mono cloning the.NET APIs is that other open source projects do too. Don't WINE and Samba clone the Microsoft protocols or interfaces? Isn't it really all OK? The difference, however, is that Win32 and SMB are dominant standards, and producing a workalike, particularly in the case of Samba, provides an interoperability technology that doesn't entrench the monopoly; Samba is in effect a great big device driver that lets a non-Windows machine access Windows network hardware..NET is different, in that it the.NET framework has precisely zero users right now, if you discount the more nebulous services such as Hotmail, which have been dragooned into the markitecture.
More worrying for any open source project - particularly one as broad and pervasive as Gnome - is the wisdom of committing to a single vendor's semi-open specifications.
As de Icaza acknowledged last week, "few, very few" of the.NET classes have been submitted to ECMA. And Microsoft has hinted that it would make sure.NET clones pay for using Microsoft technology. How, we'll have to see. It may be worth noting that The Beast typically doesn't view patent infringements in the simple, hand-over-the-money style of a Qualcomm or a Rambus, and is actually more frequently the recipient rather than the initiator of patent infringement lawsuits. But rather, it looks for downstream opportunities it can leverage with business partners.
And in any case, does de Icaza have the personal capital to influence such a decision? Well he might, but in theory it should only go so far. The industry-sponsored GNOME Foundation, has an elected board, which meets fortnightly, and where agenda items such as "8.b. Proposal to sell our souls to The Satan of Redmond in perpetuity" can be postponed until after tea and biscuits.
One of the sponsors of the Foundation is Sun. As we pointed out on Friday, the prospect of selling boxes with the sticker "Solaris - Powered by.NET" might persuade Sun to start taking an active interest in the Foundation. Like, really, really active.
The Mentally Handicapped forfeit their place in modern society by virtue of being unable to contribute anything to said society. They clog up public services, are the most common brand of pedophile, and are clearly unfit to be considered civilized.
In the case of "equal opportunites" situations, who would YOU rather deal with in a company? A moon-faced retard, or a real human being?
What the hell do you mean "Win32"? There's two separate platforms, with two separate memory managers. Win9x and WinNT/XP. IE6 works better on WinXP, along with EVERY OTHER XP-certified application. Mozilla doesn't, because it's been coded by amateurs who REALLY think that people are going to be squirting out an XML based derivative just to be able to add a toolbar.
Saying "Win32" is like saying "Linux 7.2", ultimately meaningless. Stop wasting everyone's time with your anti-Microsoft FUD.
Come back when you know what you're talking about, rape-fodder!
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The pathetic obese abomination will be screaming at Miguel to "Beg for forgiveness" within a month.
Further proof that Free Software is run by Autistics.
"non free. non free. very bad. *slap slap* very bad."
"This is your God"
Do you have any proof of this? Didn't think so!
"Easier to learn with free software"??? On what assumption do you base THIS fallacy? Microsoft PAY authors to write tutorials. All your blessed "free software" cronies can muster are the occasional poorly worded HOWTOs.
I can't wait to see you begging on the street for food, lgdutra@ig.com.br. That's where you came from, after all.
Poverty in the third world is endemic to the "give me free stuff" third world attitude.
Pedantic geeks were bullied and taunted at school for a reason. You'd do well to remember that.
Is delivered by the BankOfAmerica_ATM. Clearly, any BoA_ATM posts should be modded up as insightful and informative.
Why should the mentally retarded be permitted to live. We exist in a society which mollycoddles the psychologically weak, in order that the silent majority of mentally competent individuals may feel 'good' about themselves.
This is a lie. The mentally handicapped are foul, misshapen creatures, drooling, dribbling, and hollering their way around city centres the world over. Desperately fucking each other in order to produce more of their filthy breed. No sane woman would touch a retard, which is why they are forced into lives of rape and pedophilia in order to sate their urges.
The liberal 'elite' should take a leaf out of their beloved Taliban's book. In Afghanistan, any child found defective was taken away from it's mother upon birth, laid on a flat rock, whilst another flat rock is placed firmly upon it's placenta-coated body, and the freak is crushed. The mother is then taken into the local football stadium and stoned to death for producing such a blasphemous taunt against 'allah'. This is all in accordance with the Koran.
Clearly, it is in the best interests of society that this cancer be cut out at the source. If the intelligensia are too squeamish about forced euthanasia, then mass sterilisation would be a viable option. Eventually, these weak minded parasites, barely aware of their surroundings, can be eliminated, thus making society a safer place for all.
Why should the mentally retarded be permitted to live. We exist in a society which mollycoddles the psychologically weak, in order that the silent majority of mentally competent individuals may feel 'good' about themselves.
This is a lie. The mentally handicapped are foul, misshapen creatures, drooling, dribbling, and hollering their way around city centres the world over. Desperately fucking each other in order to produce more of their filthy breed. No sane woman would touch a retard, which is why they are forced into lives of rape and pedophilia in order to sate their urges.
The liberal 'elite' should take a leaf out of their beloved Taliban's book. In Afghanistan, any child found defective was taken away from it's mother upon birth, laid on a flat rock, whilst another flat rock is placed firmly upon it's placenta-coated body, and the freak is crushed. The mother is then taken into the local football stadium and stoned to death for producing such a blasphemous taunt against 'allah'. This is all in accordance with the Koran.
Clearly, it is in the best interests of society that this cancer be cut out at the source. If the intelligensia are too squeamish about forced euthanasia, then mass sterilisation would be a viable option. Eventually, these weak minded parasites, barely aware of their surroundings, can be eliminated, thus making society a safer place for all.
unicorn.com indeed! Sheesh.
Why should the mentally retarded be permitted to live. We exist in a society which mollycoddles the psychologically weak, in order that the silent majority of mentally competent individuals may feel 'good' about themselves.
This is a lie. The mentally handicapped are foul, misshapen creatures, drooling, dribbling, and hollering their way around city centres the world over. Desperately fucking each other in order to produce more of their filthy breed. No sane woman would touch a retard, which is why they are forced into lives of rape and pedophilia in order to sate their urges.
The liberal 'elite' should take a leaf out of their beloved Taliban's book. In Afghanistan, any child found defective was taken away from it's mother upon birth, laid on a flat rock, whilst another flat rock is placed firmly upon it's placenta-coated body, and the freak is crushed. The mother is then taken into the local football stadium and stoned to death for producing such a blasphemous taunt against 'allah'. This is all in accordance with the Koran.
Clearly, it is in the best interests of society that this cancer be cut out at the source. If the intelligensia are too squeamish about forced euthanasia, then mass sterilisation would be a viable option. Eventually, these weak minded parasites, barely aware of their surroundings, can be eliminated, thus making society a safer place for all.
Why should the mentally retarded be permitted to live. We exist in a society which mollycoddles the psychologically weak, in order that the silent majority of mentally competent individuals may feel 'good' about themselves.
This is a lie. The mentally handicapped are foul, misshapen creatures, drooling, dribbling, and hollering their way around city centres the world over. Desperately fucking each other in order to produce more of their filthy breed. No sane woman would touch a retard, which is why they are forced into lives of rape and pedophilia in order to sate their urges.
The liberal 'elite' should take a leaf out of their beloved Taliban's book. In Afghanistan, any child found defective was taken away from it's mother upon birth, laid on a flat rock, whilst another flat rock is placed firmly upon it's placenta-coated body, and the freak is crushed. The mother is then taken into the local football stadium and stoned to death for producing such a blasphemous taunt against 'allah'. This is all in accordance with the Koran.
Clearly, it is in the best interests of society that this cancer be cut out at the source. If the intelligensia are too squeamish about forced euthanasia, then mass sterilisation would be a viable option. Eventually, these weak minded parasites, barely aware of their surroundings, can be eliminated, thus making society a safer place for all.
Why should the mentally retarded be permitted to live. We exist in a society which mollycoddles the psychologically weak, in order that the silent majority of mentally competent individuals may feel 'good' about themselves.
This is a lie. The mentally handicapped are foul, misshapen creatures, drooling, dribbling, and hollering their way around city centres the world over. Desperately fucking each other in order to produce more of their filthy breed. No sane woman would touch a retard, which is why they are forced into lives of rape and pedophilia in order to sate their urges.
The liberal 'elite' should take a leaf out of their beloved Taliban's book. In Afghanistan, any child found defective was taken away from it's mother upon birth, laid on a flat rock, whilst another flat rock is placed firmly upon it's placenta-coated body, and the freak is crushed. The mother is then taken into the local football stadium and stoned to death for producing such a blasphemous taunt against 'allah'. This is all in accordance with the Koran.
Clearly, it is in the best interests of society that this cancer be cut out at the source. If the intelligensia are too squeamish about forced euthanasia, then mass sterilisation would be a viable option. Eventually, these weak minded parasites, barely aware of their surroundings, can be eliminated, thus making society a safer place for all.
Why should the mentally retarded be permitted to live. We exist in a society which mollycoddles the psychologically weak, in order that the silent majority of mentally competent individuals may feel 'good' about themselves.
This is a lie. The mentally handicapped are foul, misshapen creatures, drooling, dribbling, and hollering their way around city centres the world over. Desperately fucking each other in order to produce more of their filthy breed. No sane woman would touch a retard, which is why they are forced into lives of rape and pedophilia in order to sate their urges.
The liberal 'elite' should take a leaf out of their beloved Taliban's book. In Afghanistan, any child found defective was taken away from it's mother upon birth, laid on a flat rock, whilst another flat rock is placed firmly upon it's placenta-coated body, and the freak is crushed. The mother is then taken into the local football stadium and stoned to death for producing such a blasphemous taunt against 'allah'. This is all in accordance with the Koran.
Clearly, it is in the best interests of society that this cancer be cut out at the source. If the intelligensia are too squeamish about forced euthanasia, then mass sterilisation would be a viable option. Eventually, these weak minded parasites, barely aware of their surroundings, can be eliminated, thus making society a safer place for all.
Why should the mentally retarded be permitted to live. We exist in a society which mollycoddles the psychologically weak, in order that the silent majority of mentally competent individuals may feel 'good' about themselves.
This is a lie. The mentally handicapped are foul, misshapen creatures, drooling, dribbling, and hollering their way around city centres the world over. Desperately fucking each other in order to produce more of their filthy breed. No sane woman would touch a retard, which is why they are forced into lives of rape and pedophilia in order to sate their urges.
The liberal 'elite' should take a leaf out of their beloved Taliban's book. In Afghanistan, any child found defective was taken away from it's mother upon birth, laid on a flat rock, whilst another flat rock is placed firmly upon it's placenta-coated body, and the freak is crushed. The mother is then taken into the local football stadium and stoned to death for producing such a blasphemous taunt against 'allah'. This is all in accordance with the Koran.
Clearly, it is in the best interests of society that this cancer be cut out at the source. If the intelligensia are too squeamish about forced euthanasia, then mass sterilisation would be a viable option. Eventually, these weak minded parasites, barely aware of their surroundings, can be eliminated, thus making society a safer place for all.
By "masses" do you mean "many" or "weight"? For I'd consider 5 sweaty obese Linux social-failures to be more of a "mass" than 50 heterosexuals.
For only children play with Linux.
Not quite, for the Xbox has useful stuff concealed within.
Goatse is just an empty void, like the hollow promises of Richard Stallman.
Nothing but a smile. Your confidence shall win over your workmates. If they ask you where your trousers are, and why you have feces caked to the backs of your legs, feign surprise and ask them what they're talking about. For you are dressed normally, and it is THEIR problem.
Why should the mentally retarded be permitted to live. We exist in a society which mollycoddles the psychologically weak, in order that the silent majority of mentally competent individuals may feel 'good' about themselves.
This is a lie. The mentally handicapped are foul, misshapen creatures, drooling, dribbling, and hollering their way around city centres the world over. Desperately fucking each other in order to produce more of their filthy breed. No sane woman would touch a retard, which is why they are forced into lives of rape and pedophilia in order to sate their urges.
The liberal 'elite' should take a leaf out of their beloved Taliban's book. In Afghanistan, any child found defective was taken away from it's mother upon birth, laid on a flat rock, whilst another flat rock is placed firmly upon it's placenta-coated body, and the freak is crushed. The mother is then taken into the local football stadium and stoned to death for producing such a blasphemous taunt against 'allah'. This is all in accordance with the Koran.
Clearly, it is in the best interests of society that this cancer be cut out at the source. If the intelligensia are too squeamish about forced euthanasia, then mass sterilisation would be a viable option. Eventually, these weak minded parasites, barely aware of their surroundings, can be eliminated, thus making society a safer place for all.
I claim this first post for the Revolution.
A surprised and dismayed Richard M Stallman says Gnome project founder Miguel de Icaza owes the community an explanation for comments made to The Register, last week, in which de Icaza advocated basing the project on Microsoft.NET APIs.
.NET framework - into Gnome as "the natural technology upgrade" when asked by the audience.
.NET APIs is that other open source projects do too. Don't WINE and Samba clone the Microsoft protocols or interfaces? Isn't it really all OK? The difference, however, is that Win32 and SMB are dominant standards, and producing a workalike, particularly in the case of Samba, provides an interoperability technology that doesn't entrench the monopoly; Samba is in effect a great big device driver that lets a non-Windows machine access Windows network hardware. .NET is different, in that it the .NET framework has precisely zero users right now, if you discount the more nebulous services such as Hotmail, which have been dragooned into the markitecture.
.NET classes have been submitted to ECMA. And Microsoft has hinted that it would make sure .NET clones pay for using Microsoft technology. How, we'll have to see. It may be worth noting that The Beast typically doesn't view patent infringements in the simple, hand-over-the-money style of a Qualcomm or a Rambus, and is actually more frequently the recipient rather than the initiator of patent infringement lawsuits. But rather, it looks for downstream opportunities it can leverage with business partners.
.NET" might persuade Sun to start taking an active interest in the Foundation. Like, really, really active.
"I can't believe it's Gnome you're talking about but if it is, I wouldn't like that," Stallman told an audience at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil last week.
Stallman only learned of de Icaza's intentions to slip the Mono project - based on Microsoft's
Gnome - the GNU Object Model - is the part of the GNU Project, started by Stallman in 1985.
"I didn't know he was doing that, I find that very hard to believe," he said.
"We would like him to come to the free software community and explain himself to us about it."
Brazilian tech site HotBits has more details here, with a number of other snippets of RMS on globalization, and GNU matters, accessible from the current edition's front page. We're grateful to Reneta Aquino for providing us with a translation.
Outraged Gnome users were mailing us over the weekend vowing to abandon the platform, and GnomeVFS maintainer Ian McKellar (who we inexplicably missed when we called in on Danger the other week) took a swipe at Miguel on the Gnome hackers mailing list: "You don't speak for me and you don't speak for most of the Gnome developers I know". (He also takes a sideswipe at us - we're "usually full of FUD and lies," apparently).
However , Miguel has been entirely consistent. From our own interview at the time of the Mono announcement, to this recent Q&A, he's justified Mono primarily is a better technology infrastructure for Gnome.
So if you didn't see this one coming, you simply haven't been paying attention.
Nor has Miguel made any secret of his ambitions to enrich the software libre desktop with more sophisticated infrastructure, using Microsoft Windows as the model. The Bonobo technology was designed to provide a lightweight compound architecture inspired by The Beast's COM, and there was even a Gnome Basic scripting language mooted at one point.
Miguel has told reporters that only an immigration technicality prevented him from becoming a Microsoft employee four years ago - the small print of the H1-B Visa process disqualifies students who haven't completed their degree course.
Sheep in wolf's cloning
With the community gathering at LinuxToday, to discuss the wisdom of the suggestion, a couple of interesting areas have emerged.
One of the justifications offered for Mono cloning the
More worrying for any open source project - particularly one as broad and pervasive as Gnome - is the wisdom of committing to a single vendor's semi-open specifications.
As de Icaza acknowledged last week, "few, very few" of the
And in any case, does de Icaza have the personal capital to influence such a decision? Well he might, but in theory it should only go so far. The industry-sponsored GNOME Foundation, has an elected board, which meets fortnightly, and where agenda items such as "8.b. Proposal to sell our souls to The Satan of Redmond in perpetuity" can be postponed until after tea and biscuits.
One of the sponsors of the Foundation is Sun. As we pointed out on Friday, the prospect of selling boxes with the sticker "Solaris - Powered by
The Mentally Handicapped forfeit their place in modern society by virtue of being unable to contribute anything to said society. They clog up public services, are the most common brand of pedophile, and are clearly unfit to be considered civilized.
In the case of "equal opportunites" situations, who would YOU rather deal with in a company? A moon-faced retard, or a real human being?
They are a waste of time, money and resources, and deserve to be cut out like the cancer they are.
Kiss the Ring!
What the hell do you mean "Win32"? There's two separate platforms, with two separate memory managers. Win9x and WinNT/XP. IE6 works better on WinXP, along with EVERY OTHER XP-certified application. Mozilla doesn't, because it's been coded by amateurs who REALLY think that people are going to be squirting out an XML based derivative just to be able to add a toolbar.
Saying "Win32" is like saying "Linux 7.2", ultimately meaningless. Stop wasting everyone's time with your anti-Microsoft FUD.
Come back when you know what you're talking about, rape-fodder!
Without an integrated spellchecker, the mail component is next to useless to me.
Why? Are you some sort of dyslexic retard? In which case stop being so fucking lazy.