Free Software Magazine: Vistarization

“I have always wanted to invent a new word. Not any old word,
but a word that would gets used even in the deepest, darkest
corners of coffee shops in Amsterdam. Not that I would ever get to
hear the word used. I don’t like coffee! So let’s try
vistarization. The process of a sensible, definitely obvious idea
degenerating into a heavy weight project that takes many extra
years to complete. I have images of small spacecraft trying to
divert asteroids that are going to hit the Earth.

“The question to ask is when you see a horde of IP related
lawyers being super charged in a magnetron and you feel the static
as the springs are being coiled for a big advertising
campaign…”

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