He must've gone back to writing proprietary code for a living - there's 
almost no money in open source.

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:46:32 -0500, DFS wrote:

> He must've gone back to writing proprietary code for a living - there's 
> almost no money in open source.

Who was he?
I must have missed it.

-- 
Moshe Goldfarb
Kreplach Productions
1/21/2010 10:53:30 AM

Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:46:32 -0500, DFS wrote:
>
>> He must've gone back to writing proprietary code for a living -
>> there's almost no money in open source.
>
> Who was he?
> I must have missed it.



He wrote a piece of fiction about Linux and "Free" software winning... 
someday.  He tried to defend his idiocy on cola for a few days, but gave up 
and ran away in desperation to make a living doing something proprietary.


Free here: http://www.lulu.com/content/4964815

$13.49 here: 
http://www.amazon.com/After-Software-Wars-Keith-Curtis/dp/0578011891 

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:56:49 -0500, DFS wrote:


> He wrote a piece of fiction about Linux and "Free" software winning... 
> someday.  He tried to defend his idiocy on cola for a few days, but gave up 
> and ran away in desperation to make a living doing something proprietary.
> 
> 
> Free here: http://www.lulu.com/content/4964815
> 
> $13.49 here: 
> http://www.amazon.com/After-Software-Wars-Keith-Curtis/dp/0578011891

Looks like it's self published via a vanity publisher?

-- 
Moshe Goldfarb
Kreplach Productions
1/21/2010 11:18:19 AM

"DFS" <nospam@dfs_.com> writes:

> He must've gone back to writing proprietary code for a living - there's 
> almost no money in open source.

I think be burst into tears when I explained the Mythical Man Month and
told him PhD beards are notoriously bad programmers and team players.

Also the other "advocates" started calling him a troll feeder.

He wasn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer. He perked up a bit
when Creepy Chris started sniffing his butt, but soon was out of his
depth again after I rubbished python for a Video editor. Asking him
about what code he was planning to contribute didnt go down too well
either.

He was nothing more than a jumped up db admin anyway. I kind of felt
sorry for him,

Moshe Goldfarb <goldee.loxnbagels@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:56:49 -0500, DFS wrote:
>
>> He wrote a piece of fiction about Linux and "Free" software winning... 
>> someday.  He tried to defend his idiocy on cola for a few days, but gave up 
>> and ran away in desperation to make a living doing something proprietary.
>> 
>> 
>> Free here: http://www.lulu.com/content/4964815
>> 
>> $13.49 here: 
>> http://www.amazon.com/After-Software-Wars-Keith-Curtis/dp/0578011891
>
> Looks like it's self published via a vanity publisher?

It's a rambling diatribe on a par with the nonsense from Homer. You get
the picture.

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:04:58 +0100, Hadron wrote:

> Moshe Goldfarb <goldee.loxnbagels@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:56:49 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>
>>> He wrote a piece of fiction about Linux and "Free" software winning... 
>>> someday.  He tried to defend his idiocy on cola for a few days, but gave up 
>>> and ran away in desperation to make a living doing something proprietary.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Free here: http://www.lulu.com/content/4964815
>>> 
>>> $13.49 here: 
>>> http://www.amazon.com/After-Software-Wars-Keith-Curtis/dp/0578011891
>>
>> Looks like it's self published via a vanity publisher?
> 
> It's a rambling diatribe on a par with the nonsense from Homer. You get
> the picture.

Homer has to be the strangest Linux lulu in the group.
I'll bet he doesn't venture outside much and when he does it's
only in full battle fatigues.

A true nut.

-- 
Moshe Goldfarb
Kreplach Productions
1/21/2010 12:55:14 PM

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:46:32 -0500, DFS wrote:

> He must've gone back to writing proprietary code for a living - there's
> almost no money in open source.

Of course not... that's why IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, Novell, Sun, and a host 
of other corporations write so much of it....



-- 
Rick

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:45:47 -0600, Rick wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:46:32 -0500, DFS wrote:
> 
>> He must've gone back to writing proprietary code for a living - there's
>> almost no money in open source.
> 
> Of course not... that's why IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, Novell, Sun, and a host 
> of other corporations write so much of it....

IBM does it to sell expensive hardware.
Red Hat does it to sell overpriced service contracts.
Same with Novell and Sun.

-- 
Moshe Goldfarb
Kreplach Productions
1/21/2010 5:52:34 PM

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:53:46 -0500, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:45:47 -0600, Rick wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:46:32 -0500, DFS wrote:
>> 
>>> He must've gone back to writing proprietary code for a living -
>>> there's almost no money in open source.
>> 
>> Of course not... that's why IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, Novell, Sun, and a
>> host of other corporations write so much of it....
> 
> IBM does it to sell expensive hardware. Red Hat does it to sell
> overpriced service contracts. Same with Novell and Sun.

.... all of them making money using FOSS/OSS...

-- 
Rick

Rick wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:46:32 -0500, DFS wrote:
>
>> He must've gone back to writing proprietary code for a living -
>> there's almost no money in open source.
>
> Of course not... that's why IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, Novell, Sun, and a
> host of other corporations write so much of it....


Go ahead and reveal how uninformed you are: tell us exactly what open source
these corporations develop, and how much money it generates for them, and
what % of their business it represents.

Or answer with your usual dullard, avoid-the-issue bullshit responses.

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:03:48 -0500, DFS wrote:

> Rick wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:46:32 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>
>>> He must've gone back to writing proprietary code for a living -
>>> there's almost no money in open source.
>>
>> Of course not... that's why IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, Novell, Sun, and a
>> host of other corporations write so much of it....
> 
> 
> Go ahead and reveal how uninformed you are: tell us exactly what open
> source these corporations develop, and how much money it generates for
> them, and what % of their business it represents.
> 
> Or answer with your usual dullard, avoid-the-issue bullshit responses.

Tell you exactly? I can't. But, of course, you knew that.

Let's see...

Sun-Open Office/Star Office, and Sun makes money from Star Office, how 
much, I don't know. And Sun has Solaris.

IBM, Red Hat and Novell are the top contributors to kernel code:
<http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/red-hat-ibm-novell-top-linux-kernel-
contributors/136317>

How much money do Red Hat and Novell make from their distributions?

Oracle has Unbreakable Linux (and soon Sun)... how much money do they 
make from that?


-- 
Rick