Comment Re:*Yawn* I'll Wait for the Mint Edition (Score 3, Insightful) 179
... especially given Shuttleworth's complete and utter contempt for the open source community.
He's giving it away for free. You don't have to use it.
... especially given Shuttleworth's complete and utter contempt for the open source community.
He's giving it away for free. You don't have to use it.
Back in 2003, there was a similar system called the Policy Analysis Market (PAM) that was close to being implemented. It got deep-sixed by some world-class idiots from Congress
Maybe they weren't idiots. Maybe the were protecting a lucrative after-Congress job market...
Oh, and the Mein Kampf thing is a desperate attempt by incumbent political parties to discredit him - so he doesn't get in a position to be kingmaker.
It's for exactly that reason that he gets any traction in public opinion in NZ. The first time he came to the attention of most Kiwis at all was when the NZ police raided his house with swat teams, helicopters and the works at the behest of US law enforcement. For
Then it turned out that our intelligence services had been spying on him illegally, (along with 80 or so other foreign-born NZ residents) Some of our politicians had been taking political donations from him and later denying all knowledge, and our Prime Minister claimed to know nothing about the illegal spying despite being briefed on it 12 months earlier
In addition FBI agents in NZ sent copies of his personal files to the US despite the ruling of NZ courts.
In essence, our local politicians and law enforcement acted like such complete and total dickwads that they made even a guy like Kim Dotcom look the good guy by comparison. The let him into the country for his money, despite his convictions. Then when the US law enforcement came knocking they turned on him like a bunch of weasels.
In fact public opinion is starrting to swing against him. Kiwis typically aren't impressed by the kind of excess and showboating he is famous for. I don't think is party will get that many votes, but in a country the size of NZ, and due to the peculiarities of our version of MMP, a small party can sometimes gain a couple of seats and be in a position to act as kingmaker.
It is a restraint of trade. If it was built into a contract it would be unenforceable at the least, probably illegal in many jurisdictions, although some restrictions in employment contracts are enforceable provided they are, "reasonable."
It tells you something that it had to be a gentleman's agreement. I'm sure if they could have legally put it into employment contracts they would have.
What worries me about this sort of knowledge, is that it could make it possible for political leaders to keep the masses working their asses off just above the breadline. But they can avoid pushing it so far that they get the kind of political activism that might result in regime change.
These days only log in to slashdot to read the fuck beta comments.
Oh yeah.
Fuck the beta.
Mod parent +1 fuckbeta
So I see they have deleted all references to the fuckbeta tag. That didn't take long.
P.S. Fuckbeta.
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