Let's face it, the award is a meaningless token from cnet to the open source community in hopes that we'll stop disliking them, mosey over to download.com, and click on one or maybe even two of their banner ads.
It costs them absolutely nothing to pick some random project and give it a $13 plastic trophy. Some assistant will probably pick the first piece of open source software that pops into his head and write a quick suckup speech which boils down to:
blah blah blah... changing the world for the better... blah blah... raising the bar... blah blah blah blah... tremendous innovation... blah blah... we all wish we could be like you, it's just that you have such ridiculous notions... blah...
then all will be smiles and clapping and we'll all die a little inside..
On the other hand, as has been mentioned, publicity is always good no matter how trite the reason. My advice? CARPE DIEM OPEN SOURCE!!!
I think the world needs to be doing a whole lot less reminiscing and a whole lot more work towards advancing neurobiology. It's one thing to talk about how great he was, but what is anyone really doing about it? Do we know if his brain was even saved?!?
All I know is that it doesn't sound like the effort is being put forth and we're really gonna be kicking ourselves 20 years down the road...
Seems to me that Apple has been trying like hell to marry the two theories and find it's most passionate lead users, give them a salary and build a company around them. Whether they manage it in practice is another matter.
Awsome! By that logic I want to tell everyone about the security benefits to not having any form of firewall. They must be useless because I don't have one and have never had a problem. Using my example and that of several other people I know, not having a firewall is 100% as effective as having one and saves the time it takes to configure one.
"I have it and it's worked fine so far" has great meaning and importance in one's own head until things fail and statistics kick in. Besides, it's just not something anyone under 75 should use as proof in an argument.
isn't it funny how microsoft is constantly in court, regularly the loser, and yet never seems to run out of ways to appeal, postpone, invalidate, and generally weasel out of every possible negative consequence to it's actions? Or maybe infuriating would be a better choice of words...
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It costs them absolutely nothing to pick some random project and give it a $13 plastic trophy. Some assistant will probably pick the first piece of open source software that pops into his head and write a quick suckup speech which boils down to:
then all will be smiles and clapping and we'll all die a little inside..
On the other hand, as has been mentioned, publicity is always good no matter how trite the reason. My advice? CARPE DIEM OPEN SOURCE!!!
I think the world needs to be doing a whole lot less reminiscing and a whole lot more work towards advancing neurobiology. It's one thing to talk about how great he was, but what is anyone really doing about it? Do we know if his brain was even saved?!?
All I know is that it doesn't sound like the effort is being put forth and we're really gonna be kicking ourselves 20 years down the road...
Seems to me that Apple has been trying like hell to marry the two theories and find it's most passionate lead users, give them a salary and build a company around them. Whether they manage it in practice is another matter.
Awsome! By that logic I want to tell everyone about the security benefits to not having any form of firewall. They must be useless because I don't have one and have never had a problem. Using my example and that of several other people I know, not having a firewall is 100% as effective as having one and saves the time it takes to configure one.
"I have it and it's worked fine so far" has great meaning and importance in one's own head until things fail and statistics kick in. Besides, it's just not something anyone under 75 should use as proof in an argument.
isn't it funny how microsoft is constantly in court, regularly the loser, and yet never seems to run out of ways to appeal, postpone, invalidate, and generally weasel out of every possible negative consequence to it's actions? Or maybe infuriating would be a better choice of words...
wouldn't it be crazy if this came up first?