ShirtlessRod

The web existed prior to Facebook. You seem to be arguing that Facebook's very existence is the reason that other sites on the web can even exist, which seems to fly in the face of the history of the web.

Relevant: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/10/the-keyboard-cult.h...

> Steve Jobs was one of the greatest men to have ever lived.

Don't you think that's a little over the top?

We're obviously going to just disagree on this one, but I do think it's unfortunate that you still feel the need to associate some ulterior motive to people who don't agree with you ("free-ride off the goodwill"). You adhere to a very specific definition of the phrase and there's nothing wrong with that. However, attacking others who do not is unnecessary as well as unhelpful for your cause.

Well, the examples that have been found you have explained away by careful parsing of the language in such a way as to ignore them. Given your fervor on this particular subject I don't think there is evidence you would accept.

Here's another one: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.protocols.ibm/browse_thr...

Frankly, it really is just baffling to me that you are defending this so aggressively to the point of accusing others of outright dishonesty when discussing it. Do you really think that appropriate?

You appear to be splitting hairs here. Most folks I know frequently say "source" as a shorthand for "source code". It's not a big leap to tack on "open" in front of that when you mean the source is available for inspection by those outside the person/company who developed it (i.e., not "closed").

If you want to claim that OSI popularized the phrase and imbued it with a very specific meaning, you'd probably have a point, but I don't see how they could lay claim to ownership of such a generic term. At the very least it seems out of bounds to be accusing someone of being "dishonest" about it and "rewriting history".

Are you really going to claim that no one has ever used the generic term "open source" prior to the folks in the OSI?

What sensationalist claptrap. The author can't even find consistency between his title and the content of the article itself:

"Laptop and desktop PCs will never die off entirely; the keyboard and big-screen form factor is ideal for desk-bound tasks."

Wait, I thought the desktop PC was bound for extinction? Now it's never going to die off entirely? Isn't that the definition of "extinction"?

Is that really the comparison you want to be using here? Panera versus McDonalds, where Apple is McDonalds? Seems more like an insult.

I think he's saying it's not clear that games perform prediction in single-player mode, which is what the other person was asking.

It's a bit disingenuous to include "collection, reviewing, and editing" in that list because it's not these companies that are responsible for the majority of those tasks, especially the reviewing part, which is by far the most time consuming and requires the expertise that is the most in short supply.

Distribution in this case amounts to little more than a file server. Nothing tremendously unique there from a technology perspective.

Massive, massive understatement. Not to mention if your children happen to have other issues, such as developmental disabilities, severe food allergies, or other things that make "normal" day-to-day living difficult, without adding the extra stressors related to travel and living abroad on top of that.

It is absolutely no coincidence that the vast majority of people who do these sorts of things have no children. This is not to say that I don't think it's commendable to get out in the world like this, because if you can it's a great thing. However, I get annoyed with folks who seem to think there couldn't be any possible reason that someone wouldn't do the same.

"I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too small to contain."