Tim Ransom's Feeble Mind

Message ID: 198450 Posted By: mitmosnar Posted On: 2004-10-27 11:50:00 Subject: That's it - I'm out Recs: 0 I thought the Grokwars were over, but alas, it was merely a respite. The stolid, hoary nags have been raised from the dead for a Halloween beating. So long, and thanks to some. Good luck with this place. ------------------------------------------------------------ The text of this Yahoo Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution by the Yahoo Message Board user "mitmosnar" under the following license: License:  CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0 ------------------------------------------------------------

Message ID: 192280 Posted By: mitmosnar Posted On: 2004-10-14 11:56:00 Subject: Reap what you sow Recs: 0 This schism is the direct result of petulance, betrayal and stupidity. Warmcat emails PJ, then publicizes selected excerpts thereof when he doesn't get the desired result. Why not do what people in reality do? Quietly try again. Complaining that he didn't get a response in what was initially described as '60 times longer' than the first reply took, he goes public. Turns out '60 times longer' was actually *under two days* over a weekend. Ridiculous. (and he calls me a 'blowhard' :D) If he was going to publicize the contents of a purportedly private email discussion anyway, why didn't he go to Groklaw and make the request publicly? For a guy bitching about 'Openness', that would have made more sense. It would also have meant we could all see the dialog unedited and discuss it where it belongs, on Groklaw. It was weasel wo

Message ID: 190563 Posted By: mitmosnar Posted On: 2004-10-09 21:34:00 Subject: Darl Innovates! Recs: 0 Diamond Darl McBride has revealed a revolutionary new marketing tack sure to lift the nose of his plummeting Unix biz: Selling software...over the Internet! Here's some of Darl's trademark clarity: 'With SCO Marketplace, the first phase is to get new developers in, and phase two is to create an iTunes for business applications market place, if you will," McBride told ComputerWire. "The second layer to growth is the new application layer". Phases, layers, - the man is a genius! 'Alluding to the way Apple responded to the problem of music file-sharing by launching a cheap and easily accessible legal market place, he said: "We believe there's a corollary there, an open model for a bigger distribution engine for online applications, following the lead that Apple set in the music business."' http://tinyurl.com/55ch