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Comment Bell & Howell (Score 1) 523

Way back when, Apple hadn't yet established relationships with public schools. School administrators didn't know how to classify computer equipment, anyway. The Bell & Howell company came to the rescue: they were vendors of audiovisual equipment like film projectors. Bell & Howell agreed to let Apple use their connections with school districts in exchange for the computers being rebranded as Bell & Howell equipment, in Bell & Howell livery.

This is why the first computer I ever got time on was an all-black sleek Apple II+ that looked like it belonged on the Death Star.

The original Bell & Howell Apples are now almost completely forgotten about. But man, do I ever have fond memories of them.

See one for yourself here.

Comment Re:Absolute BS (Score 1) 122

That policy requirement did not exist until Andrew Lee added it no more than 2 hours before deploying his channel hijacking bot.

In fact the freenode policies (especially the group registration policy) make it quite clear that primary channels are reserved for use by projects:
"Primary channels are reserved based on a formal or informal claim, external to IRC, to a specific project group, or trademarked name."
"Primary channels do not expire with inactivity, though they can be claimed at any time by a representative of an on-topic project with the appropriate name."
"Channels on freenode are owned and operated by the groups which register them. No minimum level of activity or moderation is expected or required of channel owners."
"Group registration requires no special type or level of participation. You may maintain as little or as much control over your channels as desired."

In other words, for example, #debian is reserved for use by the Debian project, and _only_ by the Debian project, who can manage it however they choose. Noone else can claim that channel for their use. It doesn't matter if some users wanted to continue using a primary channel against the wishes of the channel's operators (assuming this is even true, we only have Lee's claims thereof), they have no authority to do so per freenode's own policies. Lee taking control of primary channels away from project owners is therefore also in direct violation of the freenode policies (ignoring the last-minute changes that Lee made to try to justify his actions).

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