Boycott "Boycott Novell!"

"CLOSED FOR THE TIME BEING"

Mm-hm. Let me clue you into something, and I mean this with sincere and grandmotherly kindness.

It takes a certain amount of not only spine, but character, to play this game. I've been at it for considerably longer than you've been in existence. I don't believe you've got what it takes, either in raw talent or in wherewithal, and your sudden non-existence on Twitter, identi.ca and the web confirm that.

Why don't you take a six-month vacation from "advocacy", offer your apologies for being an egregious dope, and actually crack a book and try your hand at some coding? Microsoft isn't hiding under your bed, and they're really not interested in molesting you.

One can accomplish quite a lot in six months if one isn't constantly distracted by the tawdry and passing allure of talking moronic smack to people who have forgotten more than you ever knew.

By the way: learn to read a domain record. Then you won't be bothering the wrong people with your errant, improper and misdirected DMCA takedown requests.

Love,

Lefty

I'm conducting a new survey, this time on attitudes around FLOSS and proprietary software. I expect people who didn't like the previous survey will find this one somewhat more to their liking. Please pass around the link to the survey below as widely as you can: we got over 1500 respondents to the last survey, which was terrific!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/F8DG25Q

[UPDATE: Survey results can be viewed, in something like real-time, here.]

I received the following bulletin last night from Simon Bridge, the manager of the FSF Community Response Team list:

You will have noticed a considerable outage over the last month, this is 
because the list moved from effectively unmoderated to strict moderation
- and *the moderator is locked out*!!!

That moderator is me, and I have asked that posts get automatically
approved until the situation can be resolved.

So, they locked the keys in the car, and they can't retrieve them. I'm looking forward to even more thoughtful commentary there in the future.

Image courtesy of robrobusa

As reported earlier today, Roy Schestowitz has been claiming that his site has been suffering from a denial-of-service attack. Thanks to a vigilant reader, we're able to identify the culprit responsible for this outrage: Roy.

Roy's proven incapable of managing his own web site in the past, but his ongoing claims of being attacked are starting to look a lot siller.