The worst part about Real Name harassment like that is that it helps the Surveillance State, helps creepy companies, helps creepy marketers (redundant, I know), helps creepy people in general, and scares non-creepy people away from discussing germane but sensitive experiences they have had, and all while THE FUCKING TROLLS STILL FUCKING TROLL AS USUAL BECAUSE THEY DON'T FUCKING CARE ABOUT REAL FUCKING NAMES AND PROBABLY EVEN FUCKING STOLE THE ACCOUNT THEY USED IN THE FIRST PLACE. *cough* Sorry, my frustration with the current state of internet matters talked again.
I'm pretty sure Dolancoin is the one that zeros your account when you try to build a competing stadium or internet service in New York, or join a union.
It's just metadrowning, the emotions you feel alongside the actual drowning. They don't identify you, your trauma, or the hot date-on-the-side you were with when you fell into the ocean though (we found that through your Facebook page).
Copied from the linked page, due to the various complaints about viewing area etc. and because even viewing Google+ gives their creepy management strange ideas and is generally a Bad Thing. Of course, this meant that I had to view the page. Links generally not preserved (they were almost all to +Real Names anyway). Slashdot has a nicer viewing area for this sort of thing (but the Beta will probably "fix" that, don't worry).
Guillaume Lesniak Shared publicly - Sep 20, 2013
I remained silent about the whole Focal relicensing troubles for now. There was a lot of drama between the app being GPL, and the fact Cyanogen Inc wanted to use it, which drove some frustration between me, some CM contributors, and CM leaders. As a result, to avoid any problem, Focal has been removed from CyanogenMod. I think you deserve explanations and “behind the scenes” view on how all of this happened, and to know it’s not just a last-minute decision or ragequit.
This is the true, fully-featured story of the “Focal drama”. It's not a rant about how Cyanogen Inc is bad or anything (and it can be a good thing, with a few conditions, see at the end of the post), but just an insight on how this all happened, and how some people were and are feeling.
A few months ago, I decided to work on an app to replace AOSP’s Camera app after +Steve Kondik expressed concerns about the camera experience on CyanogenMod in a G+ post. I decided to take the challenge, and build up a camera app that would be up with users’ expectations: accessible and innovative UI, but fully-featured. You all know how that worked out - the app has been out for some time now. I’ve been keeping the “internal” CM team (read: the CyanogenMod Dev private G+ group) tuned with my progress, releasing them mockups, screenshots and videos of the progress. Luckily, nobody ever leaked what it was, even with the big storm we started with the Nemesis trailer.
A few days before we started organizing Focal’s launch, I was approached by +Koushik Dutta and +Steve Kondik . They wanted to talk to me about CyanogenMod’s future developments, that sounded cool. Koush told me in a video chat Cyanogen’s plans since he left Samsung: they found investors, and they’re ready to push forward Cyanogen Inc, a company selling services for CyanogenMod. At first, that sounded amazing, getting a few bucks for working on something I’ve been doing for free for some time. That would allow the student I am to get some stuff and get a kickstart for my future life. That would have given me the chance to spend more time on CM, as I wouldn't need to work elsewhere. Now, I didn’t have much information about what were Cyanogen Inc plans to make money, but I expected it to be through some kind of services - koush told me about CMID, which later became CMAccount, or other premium things like a one-click installer, or even a CMPhone. That sounded like a nice addition to CyanogenMod, leaving the community intact, and adding more value to the software distribution. I had a similar chat with Steve, where he explained me some of the other aspects of Cyanogen Inc, his philosophy about it, etc. Okay, that sounds like a good plan, get me involved and enhance the open distribution I know and love. I have a few emails back and forth between Steve, Koush and me, talking about what I could work on, what I could enhance on Focal, etc. They’re telling me they’re looking into contracts, and I wait.
That’s when the “drama” started.
I got a Hangouts chat from Koush, saying that Focal would need to be relicensed because GPL isn’t ideal -- wait what, not ideal for an Open Source project?
“The issue is that we need to be able to relicense it” “It’ll be open as GPL, but CM can do what they want with it.”
Yes, Cyanogen Inc. will need to do changes in CyanogenMod’s source code - because here’s another
Among other things, the data dump (which was not quite as thoroughly scrubbed as the police department had intended it to be) showed that a stolen motorcycle was detected by the cameras 59 times and red-flagged, but evidently no action was taken to recover it.
I hope this isn't what they mean if they call the police there "Boston Strong".
...and it's not doing so, which is why the Snowdens and Mannings who hide within, ready to spill the beans and grind them into flavorful Bochinche coffee, should have the nation's support, respect, and honor.
If you've been to the front pages of their website lately you'd notice an almost-complete lack of "Linux" now. I'm not sure how much the real reason for that is "trying not to break some arcane legal or Linux Mark Institute rules", or how much it's "awful covert marketing campaign for yet-unnamed replacement kernel".
Clearly they don't want to be associated with Linux...or, given their recent demeanor, most anyone.
Big bankers don't get jail time or substantial fines for perjury or other criminal acts here, so yes. There's a snowball's chance, and enough additional snowballs where that came from that Hell will be inhabitable.
Grab your bitcoin wallet, your lawyer, and your ass. When an already powerful bank goes patent troll you may well need them all and in that order.
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I guess Arch Linux (my current OS of choice) doesn't fit in this ungodly mess of doctrines, with the gluttonous pacman and all.
Were you going for a "shame there wasn't a 4th" joke there? (SimCity 4 is a different game from this year's version.)
Just make sure to save all documents and flush all cache to your disks before resetting.
Are you trying to say that Myer's website got...knocked out?
The worst part about Real Name harassment like that is that it helps the Surveillance State, helps creepy companies, helps creepy marketers (redundant, I know), helps creepy people in general, and scares non-creepy people away from discussing germane but sensitive experiences they have had, and all while THE FUCKING TROLLS STILL FUCKING TROLL AS USUAL BECAUSE THEY DON'T FUCKING CARE ABOUT REAL FUCKING NAMES AND PROBABLY EVEN FUCKING STOLE THE ACCOUNT THEY USED IN THE FIRST PLACE. *cough* Sorry, my frustration with the current state of internet matters talked again.
I'm pretty sure Dolancoin is the one that zeros your account when you try to build a competing stadium or internet service in New York, or join a union.
It's just metadrowning, the emotions you feel alongside the actual drowning. They don't identify you, your trauma, or the hot date-on-the-side you were with when you fell into the ocean though (we found that through your Facebook page).
I love the part where that disappoints the market and it could go up to 50%.
In related news, angered Sun goes supernova, replies "I'm not a significant what!?"
Probably being kept from so much as breathing a word about the eyebrow-raising by their work contracts with said management.
I'm not quite sure that's a bullet point, especially if they're doing sentence 2 to stop sentence 1.
I can imagine Samuel L. Jackson popping out of nowhere to tell RSA, "Yes you did! YES YOU DID." Actually I kinda wish that happened.
Or, in short, SEO.
For the record, I am not Mr. Lesniak, just someone who copied his comment from his G+ page. :)
I do agree a thank you is in order for his work, and I think for bringing the story to light too.
Copied from the linked page, due to the various complaints about viewing area etc. and because even viewing Google+ gives their creepy management strange ideas and is generally a Bad Thing. Of course, this meant that I had to view the page. Links generally not preserved (they were almost all to +Real Names anyway). Slashdot has a nicer viewing area for this sort of thing (but the Beta will probably "fix" that, don't worry).
Guillaume Lesniak
Shared publicly - Sep 20, 2013
I remained silent about the whole Focal relicensing troubles for now. There was a lot of drama between the app being GPL, and the fact Cyanogen Inc wanted to use it, which drove some frustration between me, some CM contributors, and CM leaders. As a result, to avoid any problem, Focal has been removed from CyanogenMod. I think you deserve explanations and “behind the scenes” view on how all of this happened, and to know it’s not just a last-minute decision or ragequit.
This is the true, fully-featured story of the “Focal drama”. It's not a rant about how Cyanogen Inc is bad or anything (and it can be a good thing, with a few conditions, see at the end of the post), but just an insight on how this all happened, and how some people were and are feeling.
A few months ago, I decided to work on an app to replace AOSP’s Camera app after +Steve Kondik expressed concerns about the camera experience on CyanogenMod in a G+ post. I decided to take the challenge, and build up a camera app that would be up with users’ expectations: accessible and innovative UI, but fully-featured.
You all know how that worked out - the app has been out for some time now. I’ve been keeping the “internal” CM team (read: the CyanogenMod Dev private G+ group) tuned with my progress, releasing them mockups, screenshots and videos of the progress. Luckily, nobody ever leaked what it was, even with the big storm we started with the Nemesis trailer.
A few days before we started organizing Focal’s launch, I was approached by +Koushik Dutta and +Steve Kondik . They wanted to talk to me about CyanogenMod’s future developments, that sounded cool. Koush told me in a video chat Cyanogen’s plans since he left Samsung: they found investors, and they’re ready to push forward Cyanogen Inc, a company selling services for CyanogenMod. At first, that sounded amazing, getting a few bucks for working on something I’ve been doing for free for some time. That would allow the student I am to get some stuff and get a kickstart for my future life. That would have given me the chance to spend more time on CM, as I wouldn't need to work elsewhere. Now, I didn’t have much information about what were Cyanogen Inc plans to make money, but I expected it to be through some kind of services - koush told me about CMID, which later became CMAccount, or other premium things like a one-click installer, or even a CMPhone. That sounded like a nice addition to CyanogenMod, leaving the community intact, and adding more value to the software distribution.
I had a similar chat with Steve, where he explained me some of the other aspects of Cyanogen Inc, his philosophy about it, etc. Okay, that sounds like a good plan, get me involved and enhance the open distribution I know and love. I have a few emails back and forth between Steve, Koush and me, talking about what I could work on, what I could enhance on Focal, etc. They’re telling me they’re looking into contracts, and I wait.
That’s when the “drama” started.
I got a Hangouts chat from Koush, saying that Focal would need to be relicensed because GPL isn’t ideal -- wait what, not ideal for an Open Source project?
“The issue is that we need to be able to relicense it”
“It’ll be open as GPL, but CM can do what they want with it.”
Yes, Cyanogen Inc. will need to do changes in CyanogenMod’s source code - because here’s another
It's an infographic. Were you actually expecting it to be terse, accessible, or relevant?
Seriously, I'd love to chat with any makers and fans of those things, and by "chat with" I mean "throttle".
Yes, and retro's post appears to be an "Unrelated Comment Object" sent from the young pulsar YRO 2155215.
I hope this isn't what they mean if they call the police there "Boston Strong".
...and it's not doing so, which is why the Snowdens and Mannings who hide within, ready to spill the beans and grind them into flavorful Bochinche coffee, should have the nation's support, respect, and honor.
Why would you need to kite a coin? It's not like it would know how to nuke you with an AOE.
Valve said people should wait a bit before trying the OS anyway, so no surprise here even if they did plan on a release of SteamOS on Steam.
I prefer "compost", with the way Google's been lately.
If you've been to the front pages of their website lately you'd notice an almost-complete lack of "Linux" now. I'm not sure how much the real reason for that is "trying not to break some arcane legal or Linux Mark Institute rules", or how much it's "awful covert marketing campaign for yet-unnamed replacement kernel".
Clearly they don't want to be associated with Linux...or, given their recent demeanor, most anyone.
Big bankers don't get jail time or substantial fines for perjury or other criminal acts here, so yes. There's a snowball's chance, and enough additional snowballs where that came from that Hell will be inhabitable.
Grab your bitcoin wallet, your lawyer, and your ass. When an already powerful bank goes patent troll you may well need them all and in that order.
"A 3D-printed jelly donut!?" --Full Plastic Jacket