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p2pnet.net news:- Here’s another example of a picture being worth a thousand words. Or more.
By Feldegast, it’s featured on Pamela Jones’ Groklaw where she says:
Some things can’t be spun.
If you’re clubbing baby seals into a bloody pulp, for example, I can’t hear your justifications. You can talk about needing to make a living and how this is how it’s always been done, but all I’m thinking is, there is nothing you can say that will make me like you for this. Or ever agree that it is acceptable. I want you to find a better way, something that doesn’t involve cruelty to adorable little creatures that never harmed a flea. I hear them crying.
Similarly, when Microsoft joined the SCO “you must pay me forever for my precious IP” club, made up of companies that don’t know enough not to club baby Linux penguins, the world said, Ewww.
Microsoft can talk about its precious IP and its shareholders demands and its customers needs, and all people are thinking is, this is hateful. Here Microsoft has more money than God, and when a bunch of good-hearted volunteers give the world some wonderful free code, Microsoft’s reaction is to club it to death with patents. What could ever justify such a horrible course, we are thinking.
No PR in the world can fix this.
You can see what I mean if you listen to Steve Gibson and Leo LaPorte, about 17:00 minutes in to their talk show on Security Now, “The Microsoft Patent Wars,” Episode 93, which Groklaw member SilverWave found and alerted me to. They have it posted as text and PDF too, as well as MP3, so you can read the transcript instead, if you prefer.
Gibson, who early in the conversation makes it clear he believes in trademarks and copyrights and intellectual property - although he sees software patents have become a problem - and has even applied for patents when he’s done consulting work, explains how patents get written and then stretched like taffy to be broader and stupider, and then he talks about his reaction to Microsoft’s claims of 235 patents ….
Head on over to Groklaw for a full transcription of the section in question.
Also See:
Groklaw - Clubbing baby Linux penguins, June 11, 2007
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June 13th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Personally down with MS. I’m tired of cleaning up the crap that they ell to companies. I’m an IT Administrator and all I do all day is fix MS crap. I don’t have time to document, research, or other wise, in a way that would be helpful to my company.
If MS said here are all 235 patents then OSS devs would have it rewritten in a few days. MS is buying Linux one scared company at a time. They are just afraid.
One other thing, IP is great. What would you think if someone got the C++ “Hello World!” program patented? Personally, if you put 3 seasoned programmers in a room they might all come back with the same code to solve the the problem. It is not fair because you were first, more like first one to have the money, to patent code.
I say anyone that can reverse engineer any of MS crappy bloat of code deserves to keep what they wrote like OpenOffice.org for reading doc format. My hat is off to you guys.
As for the rest of MS, they just need to leave the OS business up to the pros: Linux and Unix.
Mark
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July 20th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
omg that pic is so sad and so gross do people really do that ?
-ashley
November 8th, 2007 at 9:42 am
this sucs help stop
November 9th, 2007 at 6:55 am
wtf! who wood ever do that fuck u canada fuck u
December 27th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
u fkn cruel bastardz…!!
January 14th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Omg i think it’s soo sad how they kill poor little animals like seals just for fun! i mean what did they ever do to harm us
And i can’t believe its a stupid SPORT! look at the little baby seals arnet they so cute how can you kill a life for fun!!!
February 1st, 2008 at 10:21 am
I just dont understand what sick, insane cruel person would do something like this !! Anyone that has ever done this should go to hell !!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 21st, 2008 at 2:56 pm
this game is stupid it’s mmeeaann!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
June 21st, 2008 at 2:57 pm
that is so ssaadd i love animals i would never do that
June 21st, 2008 at 3:00 pm
That is really roude how could you people put that pic on the internet
October 29th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Ashley.
yes people really do that.
people in canada.
*cough cough* cruel bastards! *cough cough*
they take a stick.
wack the baby seals in the head.
and take thier skin and sell it to rich bastards.
and its no way to live.
and chelsea.
you carnt hide from the world.
people post pictures like that to inform you the cruel ways of people.
you cant hide from the truth.