Still no word from Cory on the whole "Boing Boing sells itself out to Microsoft for a mere ${number redacted}" discussion. Or have I missed it?

Hey Cory, welcome back. We had a big argument while you were away: I'm still hoping to get your perspective on it.

I note that no-one's answered my questions above about future criticisms of Microsoft. I would love to see Cory step away from the nappies for a minute to let us know what he thinks.

Apologies, Teresa, I thought my first post had been deleted. I think it's a little odd to flame me and ignore the substantive point for repeating it under those circumstances, but never mind, I'm a kind and forgiving sort.

Here's another question. Here are a few anti-Microsoft editorial comments I've found on Boing Boing from the past. Is it really your contention that this kind of discussion will continue? Or that it won't matter if it doesn't? Or that Microsoft has changed?

1 Microsoft's fraidy-cat technology is suicidally stupid, and so are you if you invest in it.

2 CC licenses are machine-readable and could, theoretically, be detected by Microsoft, if they cared enough about copyright to ensure that they were adhering to the license policies set out by creators.

3 Microsoft is cutting its throat here. There isn't a single Windows user who wants a version of Windows that lets her do less with her music and movies. Microsoft is also subverting copyright.

4 Microsoft's whole current business model is built around systems that take control away from users.

5 At a time when American state governments are throwing away their Microsoft products in favor of future-proof open standards, Norway has no excuse for selling out to Redmond. Irony of ironies..

6 Microsoft are now threatening end users of GNU/Linux (that's you and me again) with lawsuits unless we pay them protection money. "Nice operating system you got there, it'd be a shame if something were to happen to it."
And yes, I think they're all from Cory. I would like to see Cory post here himself and give his view on this. Has he been overruled, perhaps? Is he being held hostage in the basement and forced to eat Zunes?

So what, our comments all got deleted?

Mine said, for the record, that I thought this was a joke, and that the BB crew would wait for Cory to come back from paternity to set us all straight.

Still think that, there's no way that this renowned home for freetards would go this route. And y'all are suckers for believing otherwise, whatever "clarification" gets issued..

I think it's a joke. Surely it's a joke? This is a renowned haunt of freetards, and frankly that's the only reasonable explanation. Looking forward to Cory getting back from paternity leave and having a good laugh about both the Honda and Microsoft gags.

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It's not being advertised on, it's the content and choice of company that's the problem. The way PR works (I know because I do it) is you take your negatives and claim the exact opposite.

Safety. Car accidents are the leading cause of death for 15-24 yr olds in America. This is an obscene choice of word. See how Danger fits better?
http://www.disastercenter.com/cdc/111riskd.html

Environment. This one is so damn obvious. In the 14 years to 2004, American CO2 emissions from transport rose 26.7%. Pollution definitely fits better.
http://climate.dot.gov/transemiss.html

Innovation. So Karl Benz got the first car up and running in 1885, and 123 years later the basic technology - burning petrol - is unchanged. The greenhouse effect was first discovered by Fourier in 1824, but we're still burning petrol to move around? I'd say No Innovation.

Make it stop. Just make it stop. The Ben and Jerry reference above is spot on.

Some of us don't think this is a good idea. It's one better than glow-in-the-dark slugs, but anytime you alter DNA structures you make unstable organisms, especially if you use the retroviral DNA approach, organisms which tend to swap genes with bacteria and other plants around them.

If you have an allergy, use the water trick. Or hell, get the servants to do it. Just don't play along with them borking our ecosystem.

The auction is here,

Thank god this never happened. The accidents, the massive extra contribution to climate change.

It should be put in a museum with the Flat Earth Society's manifesto, the Spruce Goose, the Ford Edsel, and Branson's absurd spacecraft project.

You should hear this asshat on the issue of climate change.

Clarkson proved an idiot. Data loss scandal back in the papers. Money to diabetes charity. Perfect!

Airships and dirigibles of other sorts are indeed in our future - so much greener and cheaper to run than aeroplanes. But not 500,000-storey airports, methinks.

I was profoundly disappointed by Earth Abides. "Let's imagine a future centred around a feckless academic type". Meander, meander. And no, it wasn't the ending, that was OK-ish, but overall, so many questions went unanswered, so many obvious decisions weren't taken. Implausible.

It's a magic thing: I got to visit it while it was under construction, and the most striking visual effect is the canal that appears to end in mid-air, when you approach it from above. Great visionary tech.

Zieroh, if that is your real name, wtf? Name me three other people who've done more to inform people about the problems with DRM, and they can't all be Larry Lessig.

If you can find anything vaguely "closed source" about any Green Party anywhere, I'll eat my hat. Every one makes policy in public, by decisions of the membership, and decides its own rules the same way.

And the policy outcomes include a good tranche of geek activism and digital libertarianism alongside, y'know, saving the planet.

So don't waste time replicating it, join it.

(disclaimer, I only know the Scottish version, but I know the same principles apply)

Cory, come off it. You're just getting better drag and drop support and multiple monitor support, you've waited all this time for PDFs to print..

Sounds to me like even a regular XP build would be more usable. Or wait, what's wrong with the OS X machine you appear to be struggling to recreate with a more ideologically pure OS?

Don't get me wrong, I understand why Linux suits some people (primarily heavy compilers of code, hackers in the trad sense), but you come across as a GUI user, the sort of person that OS X was made for. Not tryin' to start a flame war here, mind.

Yeah, Jesse, that last one seemed, I don't know, totally wrong to me!

I don't see the problem with hanging them. They back hanging other people, like, especially, teh blacks, and teh mentally subnormal. And they aren't too picky about proof, standards, etc. I think their dispatch would reduce the chances, overall, of miscarriages of justice ending in the chair.

Oh, and what Nick D said so clearly above.

Who won last year? And as Scalzi says, did the furry lot de-paw for the occasion?!