“‘A crass, purblind,….featureless heap of gangrened elephant’s
sputum.’ Who said that and about what? Linus Torvalds describing
the state of Windows coding? No. The Samba team’s opinion of the
Microvell deal? Nope. Richard Stallman’s view of patents and the
DRM? Nope, not that either. Give up? Alright. It was that splendid
old curmudgen Kingsley Amis venting his considerable spleen on the
(approximately) Eleventh-Century heroic epic, Beowulf (which I
managed to avoid in my three year English degree. Phew!). Apologies
to any lovers of ancient epic literature out there…”