“Occasionally someone submits a feature that really raises my
eyebrow. Jack William Bell did just that by submitting ‘Open Source
as an Ant Farm’. Its a really interesting piece that talks about
code as art, and much more. Its quite funny, and its got a lot to
think about.”
“Where Open Source is concerned, hyperbole from the digerteratti
hype meisters proliferates nearly as quickly as the hyperlinks they
hype. Let’s face it — Clapton has been deposed; Linus Torvalds is
now God. And those pundits shouting his divinity the loudest
can^Òt even tell a stack register from a walrus. I wonder if
Jesus had the same problem?”
“This constant lionizing of Linus is getting on my nerves. I
mean, he is probably a great guy and all (if you know what I mean),
but a great man? Usually you wait until people are safely dead (and
unable to further embarrass themselves) before heaping those kinds
of laurels on their heads. If I was he I would start worrying about
that strange human proclivity for taking our living idols down a
notch once in a while. Or even nailing them to a tree. Not to
mention burning at the stake, drawing and quartering and satirizin
g on TV.”