Comments

• saulgoode

  2009-09-27 12:26:31

  You obviously didn't caption the Polish version.
  
  

• Charles Oliver

  2009-09-27 10:58:01

  Considering the recent palaver around the view of the gentle sex in free software, I'm outraged that the speech bubbles in the picture accompanying this story have two girls spouting off-topic inanities in unison, as if they are incapable of independent thought, whereas the two men appear to be on-topic and thoughtful.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2009-09-27 11:20:23

  It's a coincidence. It was not intended. They just happen to stand close to the balloons. The big bubble only fits the LHS (I didn't want bubbles below the faces).

• Will

  2009-09-27 15:33:13

  My favorite line from the video was at around 5:10, where one of the party planners says:
  
  "Hey, it helped me to remember that I'm not a salesman at this party."
  
  Umm, then what does he think he is? Better question: What does he think Microsoft thinks he is?

• twitter

  2009-09-27 19:00:13

  My favorite line is, "They put the Windows 7 launch in our hands. Are they nuts or what?" Major fail.

• Will

  2009-09-28 02:39:39

  Maybe MS thought that would be safer than putting the launch in Ballmer's hands?

• Roy Schestowitz

  2009-09-27 19:08:30

  I couldn't watch it for longer than 30 seconds. It's embarrassing. At least I grabbed a screenshot.

• Needs Sunlight

  2009-09-27 18:17:56

  In all the years those strange people have been promoting mono, I have never gotten any answer either about why the technology should be pursued or how MS can be trusted not to yank the carpet. The latter sometimes gets a vague "goodness in and of itself", but often personal attack. The trust issue *always* results in personal attack. *Always* regardless of forum.
  
  You know what. No one has to put up with crap from M$ or, especially, fake OSS spreading M$. Moreover, doing nothing is not an option. That's how the crap spread in the first place: skilled people laughing at M$ or M$ boosters instead of putting them where they belong.
  
  The very presence of M$ products takes away choice. As revered political philosophers famously pointed out, their right to swing their fists ends at our noses. But don't make the mistake of blaming M$ technology. If left on its own or evaluated on technical or economic merits it would disappear in a quarter. The problem to deal with are the M$ interns, partners, boosters and other minions.

• twitter

  2009-09-27 19:11:45

  It's sad how toxic everything related to Microsoft is. Even in a toned down response from jono, there was personal attack. They used the term "paranoia" to describe worries about M$ taxing free software with patents on mono, even when presented with a long list of threatening quotes and plans by M$ executives about how patents would be used against free software. A couple of applications that use mono were named as a reason to include mono but even DaemonFC considers this a bloated waste of space that has no place on a default install.

• Needs Sunlight

  2009-09-27 18:19:38

  In all the years those strange people have been promoting mono, I have never gotten any answer either about why the technology should be pursued or how MS can be trusted not to yank the carpet. The latter sometimes gets a vague "goodness in and of itself", but often personal attack. The trust issue *always* results in personal attack. *Always* regardless of forum.
  
  You know what. No one has to put up with crap from M$ or, especially, fake OSS spreading M$. Moreover, doing nothing is not an option. That's how the crap spread in the first place: skilled people laughing at M$ or M$ boosters instead of putting them where they belong.
  
  The very presence of M$ products takes away choice. Some would even say that Microsoft is a threat to democracy, as it also is to the market.
  
  http://www.expressen.se/ledare/1.1663751/johanna-nylander-microsoft-hotar-var-demokrati
  
  As revered political philosophers famously pointed out, their right to swing their fists ends at our noses. But don't make the mistake of blaming M$ technology. If left on its own or evaluated on technical or economic merits it would disappear in a quarter. The problem to solve is the 'former' M$ employees, M$ interns, partners, boosters and other minions.

• Mikko

  2009-09-27 20:18:14

  i tried the latest beta of moonlight and i've never seen firefox eat 500MB of RAM before and all the remaining processor