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To Evil: A Monthly Column
Posted October 11, 2004 – 2:42 am by Yakov Shafranovich in Politics, TechnologyI just ran across an monthly interesting column titled “To Evil” written by Danny O’Brien of NTK (via BoingBoing). Its funny enough to make it to my RSS reader. This month’s evils are Microsoft’s Sender-ID Team, Jonathan Schwartz of Sun and John Kerry? Sender-ID is simple, although this quote is gold:
Rumour has it that the decision to keep the license, against all opposition internal and external, came from the highest possible authority: Microsoft’s Chief Architect himself. And House Rule #2 says we can’t nominate Microsoft’s Chief Architect as an official Harbinger of Evil. Because that would be far too easy. It’s sort of the Godwin’s of the field. So, no evil here, albeit only on a technicality. Gads, but those Microsoft lawyers are good. Next!
As for John Kerry (also refered to as “They That Shall Not Be Named Except In The Context of This Article, Where Naming Them Is Rather The Point”), it seems that one of his main advisors maybe Bruce Lehman who just happens to be the godfather of the DMCA and software patents. And for the funny quote:
Suffice to say that his re-appearance in the Whitehouse would not be accompanied by angelic choirs of open source programmers singing Hosannahs.
Now, as it turns out, opinions differs as to whether Mr Lehman really has appeared on the shoulder of Mr Kerry. He himself says he has only a “minor role”, while sources close to Kerry deny his very existence. So rather than stick the hatchet to Mr Kerry, and have exactly 49.999% of Americans likely to vote furious with us, we’ll shift our target slightly to the right, and award this month’s Black Heart to Bruce himself.
Bruce Lehman, Mr Software Patents to you, is this month’s Evil Without Portfolio.
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