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Flying over Scott Peterson's House







Flying over Scott Peterson's House

Flying over Scott Peterson's House 06/05/2005 11:56 PM

Doug Kaye, whom most people know as the creative force behind IT Conversations, turns out to be an accomplished Bonanza pilot.  He graciously invited me out for a day of goofing off in the sky on Monday.  Under rainy skies we departed Marin County's Gnoss Field in the Bonanza, a "machine invented to make sure that the world didn't become overpopulated with doctors and lawyers", and retracted the landing gear before climbing 1000 feet-per-minute up through a hole in the clouds.  Thanks to a turbonormalizer the engine maintained good power right up to 15,500' where we had to stay to remain clear of the ice-filled cumulus clouds.  We landed on the 12,000' runway at the former Castle Air Force Base in Atwater, California.  The base closed 10 years ago, devastating the town's economy, but an airplane museum remains with a collection of WWII and Cold War planes.  The largest is a B-52 and the weirdest is an enormous B-36 with 6 huge pusher propellers on the mid-wing-mounted piston engines and four turbojet engines slung under the wingtips for takeoff assistance.

George W. Bush's F-104 is represented among the fighters as well as one of the F-111s that Ronald Reagan sent to Libya in 1986 to demonstrate our irritation with its owner's attacks on American interests.  (Young folks: this incident was notable because Ronbo went to sleep after ordering the bombing of Libya; he terrified Qaddafi by not caring enough about the operation to let it disturb his sleep).

We decided to return to the Bay Area underneath the 5000' overcast. Before departing the Castle area I practiced some chandelles and lazy-eights from the right seat.  These precision maneuvers are required of applicants for a flight instructor rating and I'd only done them in my old Diamond Star and the clunky Piper Arrow trainers. A chandelle is a maximum performance climb while turning 180 degrees. The Bonanza has so much power and so little drag with its gear retracted that this turns out to require a much more extreme pitch-up attitude than in the Arrow.

As we steered our way around the heavier downpours I noticed that we were coming up on a large town and asked Doug what it was.  "Modesto, home of Scott Peterson," he replied.  For any man who has been dumped or divorced by a woman reflecting on Scott Peterson ought to be a humbling experience.  Consider that Scott was beloved by both his wife, a beautiful and kind person, and his massage therapist girlfriend.  This despite the fact that Scott was an adulterer and murderer, both black marks against a person's character.  So the only reasonable conclusion that a rejected man can draw is that he is less attractive, as a package, than Scott Peterson.




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When I'm good, I get Jell-OSeems like Scott Fallin really likes UNIX, thinks he's God and writes software that all of us care about (not sure what that is.)

Here's his 'opinion' of me (my reply follows):

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I find esr’s post about the difficulty of configuring CUPS (Common UNIX Printer System) to be very amusing. While I’m not CUPS guru, I have set it up a time or two and found it to be simple and straightforward. It can be configured via a web browser, after all. UNIX and its ilk is about tinkering, experimenting and getting things done in a powerful way. If people want software handed to them, they know where to go. Redmond and Cupertino make decent enough UIs. The luser can be spared the foray into the bowels operating system itself, should that be their wish. In his post, esr has a fictional Aunt Tillie “getting the idea that this software was written by geeks without clue.” No, esr. The software was written by geeks who don’t give a damn about Aunt Tillie and her need to print and you know that. These geeks have a significant clue. It is simply not the clue you wish them to have. I respect your abilities as a programmer. Fetchmail has made my life easier for years. But you are wrong. Microsoft is still in business because of trade alliances it has formed with consumers, hardware vendors and resellers. It is still in business because it has the lion’s share of the market and that market’s data is stored in proprietary formats. Bringing Linux to Aunt Tillie’s desktop and making it easy on her will not slay this Goliath. You of all people should know this. In all likelihood, Aunt Tillie would be happy with WebTV. Let her have it.

Marching further into the opinionated front, we find Marc Canter, would be impresario. Marc states, in Open Source UIs his belief that open source software programmers should somehow decided upon a standardized set of hooks so that those who specialize in UI design can easily plug their UI in.

Why would anyone even attempt to organize such a project? There is a single common interface across UNIX-like operating systems. It is called the shell, Marc. UNIX is not a beauty contest. UNIX is a vast tool. This tool works best when all the point-and-drool UI cosmetics fall away.

The fact is, Marc wants ease of use and pretty UI on top of open source so he can better leverage it against his commerce driven ideas. Mark wants this because the masses want this. Why he thinks open source should give it too him is beyond my grasp.

Why do I suddenly feel the need to alter the GPL so that I can release my code under the proviso that Marc Canter or anyone sharing his genetic material cannot use it.

Then again, I could just make it too hard for folks like him to figure out. [sh.ortb.us]

Scott seems to have woken up on the wrong side of the bed (the day he wrote this.)  But since I love clarifying people who don't get what I say - I feel compelled to reply:

1.  I'm not altering anybody's GPL - or anything as coniving as "commerce related" doodley squat.  Great compelling Uis certainly have more to do with making Aunt Tillie's experience better - no matter how obnoxious, arogant or misunderstanding you UNIX guys portend to come off.

In fact I have to admit I've heard fo folks like Scott before - I just never have had the pleasure of running into them.  Which leads me to ask......

2.  What is it that you write that we (I) care about?  When I say UIs - I mean jukeboxes, video players, phto albums, blogging tools, editing systems, topic libraries, knowledge management and digital ifestyle aggregation systems.  What is it that you do - Scott?

3.  Rather than think of UI APIs as generic - I think Scott needss to think of them as VERY specific.  To build inter-changeable (sometimes known as skins) UIs, it takes very very detailed data model objects, nomenclature, guidelines and what we used to say "Interface Police" rules.

This Microsoft and Apple's bread and butter.  But anybody who's used Gnome, worked at Apple or Microsoft or 100 other companies - knows this stuff in their sleep.  It's time we all just banded together.

4.  Which leads me to Scott's rather rude allegations that I have some sort of evil goals in mind.  That doing something with 'commerce' in mind can ONLY mean - BAD things.  I gotta say I'm disappointed in Scott.

The trick is how to do something free and open and STILL win at the bank. If I (or anybody associated with me) can pull that off - it won't be for ripping off, taking advantage of or acting like an asshole to the world. It'll be because we're bettering the world, bringing value added features and functionality to the world of open source and if anything - brgining in a little professionalism that my 25+ years in this business has taught me.

If you got a problem with that - then:

- make your software is better than ours.  We don't GET anything from open source, we GIVE to open source.

- make sure to support or promulgate lots of open standards (like we are)

- and we'll meet at the shootout at the Slashdot Corral.  May the better man win.

- and hey, along the way - you could contribute ideas to the world too - like I do.

- what's wrong with that?  If you don't like um - ignore me - please

If you got a problem with that - sorry.  But certainly don't accuse me of shit that's completely false, ranging on libelous.

And oh yah - keep making your stuff difficult to understand and figure out. Brilliant strategy dude.  Go for it.  I'm sure you'll get LOTS of powerful, sophisticated customers - just like you.


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