ManWithIceCream - Slashdot User

Comment Luckily Java is GPL'd (Score 3, Insightful) 234

by ManWithIceCream on Monday April 27, 2009 @02:16PM (#27733617) Attached to: Will Oracle Keep Funding Sun's Pet Java Projects?

I'm so happy that Sun managed to release Java under the GPL before it was bought. I can't imagined what would happen if Oracle got a hold of Java without the community being able to fork it if nessecary.

Comment Re:It does seem like trademark and cybersquatting! (Score 1) 235

by ManWithIceCream on Friday April 24, 2009 @01:33PM (#27704109) Attached to: Wikipedia Threatens Artists For Fair Use

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5011682/Animal-rights-protestors-target-Jamie-Oliver-over-pork-campaign.html

Comment Re:EU Elections June7 (Score 1) 410

by ManWithIceCream on Saturday April 18, 2009 @06:09PM (#27630621) Attached to: Swedish Pirate Party Gains 3000 Members In 7 Hours

Probably the only candidate for the EP on slashdot.

Comment Forgot one. (Score 1) 586

by ManWithIceCream on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @03:44PM (#27575555) Attached to: What Do You Call People Who "Do HTML"?

Stuck in the 90's = webmaster

Comment Re:Boilerplate. (Score 1) 124

by ManWithIceCream on Monday April 13, 2009 @09:27PM (#27565493) Attached to: iTunes Prohibits Terrorism

I read the exact words on the Mosso.com Terms of Service

Comment Re:Last Post (Score 1) 393

by ManWithIceCream on Monday April 13, 2009 @09:03AM (#27555315) Attached to: Closing Time At Microsoft's Campus Pub

It is typical MS fashion.
Case in point: Computer Gaming World Magazine was changed to Games For Windows Official Magazine. But only months after, Microsoft just dropped it and killed the magazine.

Lesson learned: Never partner with Microsoft

Comment Re:Or at least (Score 1) 655

by ManWithIceCream on Monday April 06, 2009 @07:15AM (#27474015) Attached to: How Do I Provide a Workstation To Last 15 Years?

or just not use virtualization software made by a vendor.

Comment Re:Have to publish it in the right place (Score 1) 233

by ManWithIceCream on Saturday April 04, 2009 @02:51PM (#27459327) Attached to: How Do I Put an Invention Into the Public Domain?

How about wikileaks? Or archive.org?

Comment Re:Your choice (Score 1) 958

by ManWithIceCream on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @06:25PM (#27320341) Attached to: How Do You Deal With Pirated Programs At Work?

more less software that he actually owns.

I think you have misunderstood something here.

Oh and I almost forgot:
ZOMG, replace it all with OSS

Comment Re:how is that not DRM? (Score 1) 731

by ManWithIceCream on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @06:16PM (#27320139) Attached to: Valve Claims New Steamworks Update "Makes DRM Obsolete"

This IS DRM.

Comment Re:the workaround is bad design (Score 2, Informative) 421

by ManWithIceCream on Thursday March 19, 2009 @02:47PM (#27259607) Attached to: Ext4 Data Losses Explained, Worked Around

We let our own off with heineous mistakes while professionals who do the same thing we hang simply because they dared to ask to be paid for their effort. Lame.

Is Ted Ts'o not professional? Does he not get paid? Ts'o's employed by the Linux Foundation, on leave from IBM. Free Software does not mean volenteer-made software!

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