User: A Merry Finn

One sentence summary

On: Got Game

"Tap into the gamer instinct for heroism. Structure team assignments like a game. Gamer employees will prefer to be surrounded by extraneous noise and attentional clutter."

In short: management bullshit

So what does "Essence" do? "Elicit", anyone?

On: E17 Available From CVS

Not to be mean or anything, but firstly these names don't tell the purpose of the application. Secondly they sound like marketing Bull$hit from Intel/Microsoft/Name-Your-Evil-Company, not an open source project.

The most brilliant political game ever

On: In These Games, the Points Are All Political

Bushgame

Re:He's wrong

On: Anatomy of Game Development

Perhaps this should be taken as "id software games are to games what porn movies are to movies", which is not so far from reality, is it?

Meanwhile, SCO Settles Over Linux Copyright

On: Microsoft Agrees Settlement Over MikeRoweSoft.com

Today, SCO has settled with IBM, Novell, and Linux copyright holders over the disputed Linux copyright ownership. According to the agreement, SCO will withdraw all legal claims on the condition that it shall acquire the Linux trademark and copyrights to all Linux source code. In return, Linus Torvalds receives a SCO OpenServer(tm) license, free SCO OpenServer(tm) training and costs incurred by changing his first name.

"The agreement is very reasonable; after all we are only giving to SCO what is rightfully theirs," said Bartholomew (formerly Linus) Torvalds.

SCO spokesman said, "We believe it's important to take steps to prevent widespread infringement of our copyrights." But he conceded SCO's original approach was "admittedly maybe impersonal."

In other news, Britain recognizes Darl McBride's fight against injustice worldwide by knighting him.