links for 2008-09-29

I agree with Hamish in the comments: "I found your article to be misleading and biased in almost every way against open source. Either this was intended as an ad for companies with vested interests in selling proprietary software and keeping users locked into their own proprietary model, or the author was woefully misunderstanding the realities of the GPL and openSource". Shockingly ill-informed article, via The OpenSkills Sett

I saw the TechCrunch post Mathew is referring to and laughed. It cites '14 million users' as a reason to put up with Apple's behaviour. Dude, Nokia sell 120 million handsets a quarter. And I'd just love to see a TechCrunch post that said "Hey developers, IE8 is going to implement CSS really badly. Just live with it, 'cos Microsoft own the IE8 platform and chose to do it that way. Yr all just a bunch of whiners" etc etc...

From the "D'oh! The humanity" files

The slides from my EuroIA presentation are now up on SlideShare for downloading if you so wish.

"It's hard to know what's more hilarious: Bakri's astonishing naiveté or the thought that money raised by rattling tins in the name of global Jihad actually went towards paying for this woman's silicone tits."

"Bowley said that he was recently threatened with legal action over breach of copyright by Constantin Film, the production company which made Downfall. He agreed to remove the clip, which had been viewed some 2,959,881 times. 'I've made no money from the video at all, I put no ads on it. The studios don't have a case as long as the uploads aren't making a profit. It's even good advertising for them: a lot of comments on my video said, 'Where can I get the film?' Three million people have seen it.'"

"The London home of the publisher of a controversial new novel that gives a fictionalised account of the Prophet Muhammad's relationship with his child bride, Aisha, was firebombed yesterday, hours after police had warned the man that he could be a target for fanatics". Enquiries have focused on Walthamstow again.