Keep in mind that the original use case for the WWW has collaboration among benign knowledgable users. That is quite remote from how it's used now
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 9:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: When open-source developers go bad | ZDNet Reminds me of this from my tagline file: /* Most people thought [in 2000] that Web content should somehow be “free,” a hopelessly naïve ideology known today as “dot-communism.”...Dot-communism has been discarded along with its political counterpart, as users find that the adjective “free” means, as it always does, “paid for by someone else,” who insists on getting it back one way or another. -David S Platt, "Introducing Microsoft .NET, Third Edition", 2003 */ --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Is it solipsistic in here or is it just me? -found at http://secure-web.cisco.com/1OpQHysVQv6zigUrMksZVrlixpbWfVFmuCcQrUWCJbrkvAhvaYql0lslP_lbj6ipKTur2Fd_ODxwC8ZjKsr-dGwa6ajKCO8udeUrA4KIT_WDOY52ryATN8F5Qm5eOx3OdyHKLpJkpAZ8-A9N2d99L8vlkDCAnC8h7r9sFNMBX5sDni0VL27QFPUG7iHsIo_kner_1joAUQDngMcVDRkjlZ_ykqBa2GqHHl4T1Xh-Gqa7plErDZ8O_ZQppcvdq1OoOGRCxMU_ZSBPeCdzU5Xj-EjTITrQk8UFkZ0phBPOkivcQcTfeum8BpqBBy3kerbPm_8NYFPFDfG9vitzMuzsx7u7TFsN6E0Qx634rRydB16O5Srj7B8oOt52QVbw9yNQwAvuBnK1oFvMLfTqV4rj_l-vzxWUlTVQ21cPPBcOsqVadzyn8J5PfLevTru3O4A0WKbQoC8SwjNW_cIT4qrFTcg/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FAskReddit%2Fcomments%2F1h1cyg%2Fwhats_the_most_intellectual_joke_you_know */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Matt Hogstrom Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 08:53 Free isn’t free. OpenSource has great potential but when people’s expectations do not meet their reality they can act out poorly. > --- On Jan 14, 2022, at 6:36 AM, Mark Regan <marktre...@gmail.com> wrote: > *JavaScript developer Marak Squires wasn't happy about not making > money from his open-source libraries, so he deliberately corrupted > them, leaving programmers and end-users with dead-in-the-water > programs.* <goog_381746448> > https://secure-web.cisco.com/1cRLNWfdgAHo5i5fAkj8JOHj9rzDCiuB5I-BUQUppvNGQpOGGggHQXsCC71max6TQgsJeMWPasOAW5XjtcnfG1jpa_bHNUlsGWS7LR5SVHMR7gCD9NAu3MgkIdRds-8gnfRt3vpADrXszKyFn5Anac4jonH4YsGjwXlWn3uNeamb4YV6SwigN1B7EjW1SxcstyM2H21eljZKTa5BdoQxi4k_U38NO-a6Z4scKVeN5tAxfbXqZJF_G7NgontCM-Aa7OySuHYM6p7fbnW1WA8IsSDQuZ52DWeQn_gb9TrdeG3TEAz5IR3hpyEDFHhhd3sJlxfKpFQOOMHi79hKi4vTrjqmAID7njfdG5jkEMx2yE6NRh3_BwuK9y8Vn6V8LzBfJk896hKRzXA3ezfA25EksXtBEJ7zXmV4MaHNygXx2v582fEzc8YFki6En7xDSbW8nzzXsV3R0k1oBj5-cX4m7mw/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zdnet.com%2Farticle%2Fwhen-open-source-developers-go-bad%2F ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
