Comments on: Infrastructures

By: PerlP0wn

PerlP0wn — Tue, 25 May 2010 03:59:55 +0000

I was thinking stereotypical Unix geek but without the rainbow-colored suspenders it’s hard to tell

By: Robertson

Robertson — Mon, 24 May 2010 09:06:16 +0000

That “bearded professor” is obviously Stallman! Do you not notice the beard? The comment is that his insistence on freedom has more bearing on us than we think. Hence the lack of sympathy.

By: Shlamko

Shlamko — Mon, 24 May 2010 07:47:23 +0000

Also, the last part of the ALT (”whenever that project gets going”) is a refference to the downside of open source: unlike a business software, its aim goal being “let’s make money” translates to “we must have a product ready” (and, obviously, without complete debugging), open source projects are not profit driven, hence basically volunteer work, hence tend to be developed quite slowly (or, even worse, starts with a bang as the initial enthusiasm drives it quickly, but without a strict deadline the move from beta to finished debugged product is very slow.

By: detru

detru — Sat, 22 May 2010 00:01:32 +0000

@matzo ahh okay, now I got the last chart of the comic. I understood the whole thing, then I read the last chart and was confused…remembered that there is this website somewhere, googled, found…read the article, which only explained what I already knew and then I found your comment…now I can sleep

By: matzo

matzo — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:25:14 +0000

And the expression ‘this is the world’s tiniest violin playing’ means you were looking for some sympathy, but you won’t get any. (Just something that isn’t that obvious for us foreign guys)

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:58:23 +0000

The mention of the tiniest violin is a reference to the film Reservoir Dogs. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105236/quotes