Ha or no Ha
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008I see that my last post stirred some controversy. As many of you guessed it was an april’s fool joke. To make it clear: I have no issues with Apple what so ever.
I had actually planned to do a software-patents-related april’s fool joke, but Daniel beat me to it. Thinking that another unrelated hoax on the same plot line would put me off, I thought I’d just follow Daniel’s footsteps and give people the possibility to dream up an “Apple-Attacks-Gnome” illusion.
On a Serious Note
Another reason for following up on Daniel’s hoax was that I actually think it highlights an important point. While highly unlikely, a similar situation could some day become real (substitute Apple with [Evil Inc]). How will the FOSS world react? Those 2½ questions I posted where in fact semi serious and I am glad that some people actually answered them.
If I where [Evil Inc.] I would consider going after the little fish in the pond. They do make up for a great portion of the FOSS contributors. If you can demotivate and scare them by taking a few of them out, that would be a big win for very few money (compared to tackling the big companies).
Bad Taste?
Was that hoax bad taste? Apparently some think. Maybe it just illustrates what amount of FUD we have already accepted from the patent lobby, and this subject has become taboo. Maybe I am just an ignoramus.
