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- cquinnd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No, it was not.
- rjacksix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not really an anonymous coward...I can be reached at jacksonrobin@gmail.com. It's just late and don't know if I'll be back here. That being said, I am giving my personal observations having heard Daniel speak today:
Daniel just did a presentation on "open source" for Microsoft (sic...no reallly....SICK). Daniel might be a bright guy but the first 45 minutes were sour grapes about how he basically started Gentoo without a business plan, and then had to try and figure out how to make money (geez). He also went off on the fact that his firewire driver started acting up as he was having to burn all his CD from his home (sigh). This was all accompanied by the battle cry "you can't make money...someone can take your stuff and resell it for 50% under GPL....ad naseum).
Daniel used the firewire incident to convince everyone tha t Linux is supported by a bunch of volunteers who must "decide whether to eat dinner with their families or go upstairs and support Linux after work."
He then went on to blather about Shared Source (imagine that). One interesting comment he made was that getting source code out of MS practically required Bill Gates personal signature.
I left after he started to talk about one of the "coolest things" that MS was learning about the Open Source movement, a reemphasis on the CLI (Command Line Interface) with their Monad initiative. I didn't have the stomach to listen to more, as nobody wanted to interrupt the poor sap and point out that a devastating POC (Proof of Concept) worm had been written for Monad within days of Vista's (aka Longhorn) first beta release and that as a result it has been announced that Monad would not be released as part of Vista. (Sigh)
I'm sure Daniel is bright, but there seem to be alot of sour grapes over his inability to run a business. He desperately wanted Gentoo to go so that he could live in Albequerque (sp?) but when MS offered a real job and real money his ideals went out the window. He now lives in (you guessed it) Redmond.
Sigh - mu-sly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's a joke. Laugh! ;-)
- mu-sly, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Was it not God himself who said something along the lines of:
"It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for Microsoft to understand Open Source and community-based projects." (Matthew 19:24) - HellBoy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Going to the Dark side
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