Wasted words. The masses of dipshits here have already made up their minds. Let 'em. It's not like you'll miss any of them, if any of them used Growl to begin with.

So this Perry Metzger dude forked Growl, gets pissy when the developers tell him to screw off, then goes onto Google Groups and blasts shit about how Growl should be expelled from Google Code because it's "not open source" and now costs money. Perry Metzger... submitter? Probably. One pissy little bitch with an axe to grind.

Yet another in the very long line of home inventors that suddenly "discover" an idea that's been around for a very long time and subsequently shit themselves with anger when "Detroit" doesn't give two fucks about them. News flash: The auto industry spends billions of dollar a year in research and development. You are meaningless. What you have is not even a drop in their bucket. Quit kidding yourself that you have done anything revolutionary and just find a goddamn niche and make some money. Fucking twatholes...

Was there anyone that actually thought his "retirement" wasn't health related? Absolutely everyone knew he was in very poor health and had been for a very long time. Keep on sucking your own cock though. You'll get to the creamy center soon enough, faggot.

Hopefully everyone with access to an email account has been given the warning about giving money to people making wild claims.. but if not, tell your mother.

It doesn't cost anything to ignore toothless threats.

It's blatant trademark infringement.. why do you think Notch is adding all the RPG adventure elements to the game before calling it "Scrolls". The only people who can't see this are the same idiots who think he's a good programmer.

Organized crime, shithead. To the tune of, apparently, $330 million goddamn dollars. THAT is serious fucking crime. THAT needs to be fucking punished. When you grow up and move out of your parents house you'll finally understand why taking money without the owner's permission is a bad thing.

Anyone that pays more than about 6% income tax doesn't know how to do their fucking taxes. Your own idiocy isn't the government's fault. Claim your deductions properly like everyone that isn't a dipshit.

People keep using this word.. I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean what they think it means.

You can petition your government for grievances.. you can take your grievances with Woolworths and shove 'em where the sun don't shine. Ya know, we tried to give you a word that means what you want.. "boycott", but that actually requires you to go without and that's not what you want is it? You just want to whine and throw tantrums when you don't get your way.

See the previous Slashdot story. GRAIL is an example of a program that should be rewarded while JWST is an example of program that should be cancelled. But in the bazarro world of NASA, programs that come in under budget on development get cut in operations to pay for the programs that are struggling in development. From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.

Other services which are also free? Anyone who allows you free access to a service has the right to remove that access at any time, or change the terms, or *gasp* start charging you money. If you don't like it, you don't have to continue using the service. A "bait and switch" requires that you *actually part with some money* first, otherwise you have no standing.

And who'd be stupid enough to do that?

There's nothing hamfisted about it.. people just don't understand that they have no right to demand Google make their products the way *they* want them to be. You don't pay them.. they don't owe you shit. If you don't like their free service then don't fucking use it.

If anything, they're guilty of being too politically correct. They should be just telling the whiners to fuck off.