Comments

• mario

  2011-01-16 17:00:11

  There's a certain lack of objectivity and hence trustworthiness in your posts. Would you mind adding a few verifying links to the claimed personal attacks from the Mono community? Otherwise I'd have to assume you are just the rambling nutjub as which you come across.

• Dr. Roy Schestowitz

  2011-01-16 17:07:03

  Why would I want to link to insults?

• mario

  2011-01-16 17:16:33

  To verify that you didn't make them up? Also, you didn't actually seem opposed to smearing or insulting others.

• Dr. Roy Schestowitz

  2011-01-16 17:23:16

  I was sincere in my criticism and also very polite. The smears I refer to here are both impolite and at times libelous. To make matters worse, Novell employees participate in this.

• twitter

  2011-01-16 18:47:19

  There are numerous links in the IRC logs you can research if you like. They link to Twitter postings and other ephemeral stuff that does not deserve repetition or promotion.
  
  Your own posting here is a good enough example. Most people who read this site do not think of Roy as a, "rambling nutjub." These smears come from a small group of mono boosters and other Microsoft affiliated people who also dump on the likes of Richard Stallman and Groklaw. Thanks for helping out but I don't think it's working for you.

• The Mad Hatter

  2011-01-16 22:22:02

  Have to wonder if @rclayton is hanging around here.

• Dr. Roy Schestowitz

  2011-01-16 23:04:37

  I think it's someone's aggressive alter-ego/pseudonym (for use when in need of militant pro-Mono backup).

• The Mad Hatter

  2011-01-16 23:10:13

  Agreed, it's someone's alter-ego. The evidence in the posting pattern is pretty clear.

• The Mad Hatter

  2011-01-16 08:02:56

  Dangerous analogy, since the rejected boyfriend is usually a sociopath who ends up killing her.
  
  Wayne
  
  PS: I was reading books on DNA and other evidence collection tools and means twenty years before CSI first aired. Some of the people who told me I was crazy to read that stuff are now hooked. Of course none of them have apologized...

• Dr. Roy Schestowitz

  2011-01-16 09:50:59

  Dangerous analogy, since the rejected boyfriend is usually a sociopath who ends up killing her.

  
  
  I was talking about agony resulting from rejection and I know guys (friends of mine) in that situation although girls too, I suppose, can outnumber guys in the same sort of position. So "sociopath who ends up killing her" is another matter altogether.

• The Mad Hatter

  2011-01-16 13:53:24

  Yeah, guess I was being sexist. Murder is an equal opportunity sport these days.

• twitter

  2011-01-16 15:27:22

  There are better analogies but none are so good as a simple statement of facts. You could compare the mono moaning to a frustrated animal in rut, or just call them a bunch of dicks. It is obvious that none care too much for the long term safety or efficiency of free software. They simply boost their favorite language and work at the expense of other, often better works and don't care if using Microsoft's insane, patented framework brings bloat, instability, inefficiency or lawsuits. A safer, less sexualized analogy would be to call mono a cockoo or brood parasite that's pushing out free software chicks like GIMP and Richard Stallman out of the nest. Microsoft did the same thing to IBM once, pushing MFC or some other hated framework that Microsoft people would never use onto Lotus developers. I love this picture. Microsoft dreams of Ubuntu looking like that nest. The problem with those analogies is that animals don't get paid to gratify themselves and prominent mono boosters are. Only their deluded followers have the honesty of animal urges. The news is that several mono pushers have been on a tear, attacking Techrights and others who oppose them. That and money on the table are disgraceful. The Microsoft/Novell goal is to divide and conquer.

• Dr. Roy Schestowitz

  2011-01-16 16:09:47

  I quite like the photo and its licence.