So our Strange Bedfellow, he of “Fuck you Richard Stallman” fame, fears he was taken “out of context” and risks besmirchment!
Let’s see what a few days of reflection have taught our young padawan.
Update 6-Jul-2009: In response to a personal request from the author I have removed the cached copies, and personal identification.
Update 4-Jul-2009: The author has removed the blog entry. [[REMOVED]] from Google’s cache. This is deliciously ironic, as he had taken dated screenshots of Boycott Novell as “proof”. [[REMOVED]]
The crux of the article was that non-copyleft licenses were good, copy left licenses were evil, and why I felt so.
Really? That’s not how I saw it – “GPL is evil” was certainly a theme – but to say that ill-informed rant actually had a crux is a bit generous. Whatever. I mean there were equal themes of how awesome “Mono and C#” were and “Patents and FUD”, all equally well-argued with the same level of intellectual rigor and informed debate.
Anyway, here are FuckYouMan’s concerns:
1. It takes my *Disclaimer* out of context, and twists it. It doesn’t even link to the original article to verify authenticity.
2. It makes it look like working on MD is part of my job description. It is not – for future reference.
(for example, if you copied the text “working on MD is part of my job description” and pasted it somewhere, it would be utterly misleading. That’s what happened)
3. Suddenly It’s written that I represent my employer, which I do not, and never wish to.
4. “MonoDevelop helps Windows” because it has a community preview port? Emacs releases a windows port, and so does apache, python, and vi – but they never explicitly help Windows eh?
A shocker: what BoycottNovell said was exactly 100% true and in context:
- BN does not take the *Disclaimer* out of context. It is used a direct, factual quote establishing the background of the author.
- No, it doesn’t. It makes it look like exactly what it is – there is some Microsoft intern working on MonoDevelop. Which, again, is 100% true.
- Where exactly does it say you represent your employer? No one thinks that. You are an intern, no one thinks you deliver Microsoft policy. People think you deliver coffee.
- Part of the contention around all things mono is that it helps Windows and Microsoft. That is a large part of the debate. This is not in/out-context, it is an editorial opinion on Boycott Novell’s part.
And here’s a funny bit to cap it off:
Judge what I do and what I write by it’s own merits, and don’t bring an employer into it and complicate things.
Right. Like what you wrote had any merit whatsoever. I mean you had the freaking Magna Carta there if only BoycottNovell didn’t talk about the stone-cold fact you intern at Microsoft? You are being judged on the merits. The thing that hurts is your content was guaranteed 100% merit-free, prepared in a merit-free environment for your health and safety.
What’s worse, someone inside might think that I’m representing MS and my company thinks I’m to blame. I can take any amount of flames and corrections, but don’t put my career at risk, especially one that hasn’t even begun. This hurts my credibility and potentially my future prospects – no telling how many people pick up these things and mutilate it.
Whoa. Who “hurt your credibility”? You did. You are the one who evacuated on the intertubes. Take responsibility and quit trying to blame others. You lead off with “Fuck you, Richard Stallman”. You called people “fear mongering assholes”. You divided the world into two people: lovers of open source and people who hate Microsoft – the stupidest thing I had read all day until I kept reading, by the way. You implied Richard Stallman was a hypocrite. You called the “GPL evil”. See where I’m going with this?
Your credibility is hurt because you aren’t credible.
This post isn’t an opinion or a notice but more of a clarification. I’m done with ranting and I’ve learned my lesson to speak about positive, constructive topics. But it’s also a warning to take everything one reads with a pinch of salt. Tommorow an article on that website will reference my misfortune, and what was originally a misunderstanding becomes a lie, which becomes a proof of something to support an opinion or argument.
Damn it man, take some responsibility. It wasn’t a “misunderstanding”. It was a seven course meal of stupid served by the maître d’ of dipshits. Don’t pretend like your words were all twisted up by Evil Roy and his Band of Brigands. Even if Roy had come out a misrepresented your position and “official-ness” of the statement – which he did not – it still doesn’t affect the merit, content or offensiveness of your post.
