From: ebina@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Eric Bina)
Newsgroups: comp.archives
Subject: [comp.infosystems.www] Merry $*!@ing Christmas!
Date: 7 Dec 1993 17:34:59 +0100
Message-ID: <2e2bbj$67k@rubb.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
This pleasant little news article is for all those out there who felt the need
to gripe and complain at the Mosaic for X authors for daring to use Motif in a
program they then gave away free. If you are not one of these people, or
don't like harsh language, read no furthur.
This note in no way reflects the opinions of NCSA, the U of I, or the Mosaic
developement team. Just my personal little rant and rave.
What the hell is wrong with you people!?! Ok, there is this really neat new
software that everyone is using, but YOU can't use it because it uses Motif
and you don't have Motif. This pisses you off, and you complain; I can
see that.
If you don't mind looking like a class A idiot, you might even complain to a
public news forum. But what the hell is wrong with you morons who DEMAND that
it is your right, and the responsibility of the programmers, to give you
programs that you can use for free on whatever platform you happen to have
chosen?!
..............
^^^ that represents about 3 pages of profanity I just typed and
deleted, aren't you glad I spared you that?
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You want to use free software? You have no rights, period. You take what
you can get, that is all.
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Truth to tell, I don't like OSF and their licensing policies either. But
unlike you, I'm not an idiot who just sits around and blathers about how
awful OSF is while doing nothing myself. I put lots of work into the first
release of the HTML widget used by Mosaic 1.2 to ensure that it was
completely compatable with other Widget sets. Did a single one of you
bozos write any free code that used that widget? No. Idiots! So now you
rant on and on about how you can't use Mosaic 2.0, because it uses Motif
whine whine whine. Have any of you looked at the code? Marc and I are
damn good programmers, and that means the code is pretty easy to
understand and modify, even to complete neanderthals like you. What,
you can't program! Then you are back to number 1, with no rights at all,
and either get used to using what exists, as opposed to what you want,
or throw out your computer and just become a couch potato.
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Just to prove to myself that I'm not wrong, and the net really is filled
with idiots, I sat down to do a quick hack of Mosaic to use the Athena
widgets. Results: it took 10 hours to have a very basically functioning
version running. 10 hours, that is probably less time that it takes most
of you morons to just find your fingers when you sit down to write drivel to
the net. But no, did one of you whining worthless bits of flatulence even
TRY to make something useful for yourself, and the rest of your fellow
nincompoops; not a chance.
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So here is my Christmas gift to you. On ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in
/outgoing/ebina you will find the source of the hacked Mosaic
(Mosaic2.0-Xaw.tar.Z) and a sparc binary (Mosaic-sun-Xaw.Z)
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Needless to say I will ignore all questions and bug reports about this
silly hacked version. It is just proof of concept (or proof of idiocy).
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Huge thanks and Kudos to Gustaf Neumann, who is a GOD! Gustaf DIDN'T
whine, he actually modified the Mosaic2.0 HTML widget so it would compile
with both Athena and Motif. His patches will find their way into future
releases of the HTML widget source to make it even EASIER for the rest
of you worthless whiners to make a non-Motif version if you so choose.
- Eric (I feel much better now) Bina