Comment The Nazis are coming! The Nazis are coming! (Score 1) 1008
"Purity". You make it sound like the Aryan Brotherhood or something.
Well, this discussion wouldn't be complete without some mention of Nazis or Neo-Nazis, I guess.
"Purity". You make it sound like the Aryan Brotherhood or something.
Well, this discussion wouldn't be complete without some mention of Nazis or Neo-Nazis, I guess.
Do the commercial Unix vendors holding those patents behave any differently than Microsoft (ahem SCO)?
At and before the time Linux was developed, yes, they behaved very differently. As a matter of fact, the real owners of the patents have always behaved differently. SCO never actually owned the patents, after all.
I'm in the real world, where I didn't say anything about PJ not being level-headed or insightful in absolute terms. I just said that Andy Updegrove is a bit more so. That was in the context of document standards, of course. That is much more his area of expertise than it is PJ's.
PJ was very level-headed and insightful when the subject was SCO's lawsuits. Her background was very relevant then. On subjects that don't have much to do with lawsuits or the GPL (e.g., OOXML) she often doesn't do as well.
To see what I mean, compare how PJ and Andy blogged about UOF when they first heard about it:
PJ was already declaring victory for ODF in 2006 (before OOXML even got to ISO/IEC) just because UOF existed and there was some people were interested in harmonizing UOF and ODF! If that doomed OOXML, what has all of the fuss in the last couple of years been about then?
Andy is a lawyer and mostly a big picture guy. If you want more technical details, you might want to check out some other blogs, such as Rob Weir's that talk about ODF, OOXML and so on. Rob is a co-chair of the OASIS ODF technical committee, so he knows what he's talking about. As a paralegal turned journalist, PJ just doesn't have the kind of background that bloggers like Rob and Andy have.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce