... and I am King of the Poles. Here is a review of Brown's book.
It seems to me, that with all the money Microsoft has, they could get better sock puppets than Ken Brown. From the Sourcefrog review:
"The paper is poorly written, full of contradictions and gramatical errors. If their essay were a program, it would not even compile, let alone work.
Nearly every paragraph makes an unsubstantiated assertion. Brown seems to feel that just inserting "it is clear that", "ironically", "clearly", or "it is widely known" is an adequate substitute for cited evidence. Ironically, it clearly is not.
Brown clearly does not understand the terms he uses, such as "copyright", "public domain" or "open source". He does not seem to understand that copyright protects representations, not ideas. In several places he seems to think that open source is in the public domain. "
Quite the expert researcher, is Mr. Brown. Apparently the world's richest man has problems hiring good help.
I suspect that Mr. Brown can't believe that Linus wrote Linux because those of limited vision and intelligence have great difficulty conceiving of the accomplishments of their superiors. Mr. Brown is clearly a man of limited intellect, and a piss-poor writer to boot.
To quote Nelson Muntz: "Ha ha".
Posted on May 22, 2004 06:29 PM