[crackmonkey] JWZ GAR

[Eve Lyn Batey]

> 	OK, everyone open up your hyperiffic hotweb browser-java
> wotzits and have a look at
> http://slashdot.org/articles/98/12/16/1713249.shtml
> 
> 	Now, those of us who were there when Jamie made the talk know
> that this is based on one offhand comment he made in response to a
> rather oblivious question.  He was stressing the fact that mozilla is
> owned by everyone now, and that the recent merger with AOL allowed him
> to stress this.  As an anecdote, he mentioned that Netscape _at one
> time_ was thinking of making Mozilla.org an independent nonprofit as a
> sort of liability insurance (since publically scrutable code is
> subject to audits for patent violation).
> 
> 	Rick put it best just now when he explained that the industry
> press has become fat and lazy on press releases.  Now that the whole
> Open Source thingummy is taking off, they have to take their news
> where they find it (as opposed to waiting for it to come off the wire
> from MicroSoft).
> 
> 	What a load of swill.

And how do we get from this to "It's the jews"?  If that was a joke, I
just don't get it.  Slashdot has become a waste of my fucking time.  What
a load of swill indeed.



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