As a Mac developer who never touches Linux (I’m not anti-Linux, I just have other things to do), I put on my best polite humility personality and joined the channel, basically saying “Look, I’m not sure where to start, but you’ve got my app icon in your product.” The reaction was almost immediately hostile and confrontational. Whereas a responsible group of developers would appreciate having such a violation brought to their attention, this group seemed more interested in instructing me as the evils of not sharing, and bemoaning the hassle of yet another “patent” issue.

Panic is kind of an old-school company when it comes to beta releases. We don’t ship and have never shipped anything labeled “beta” to the general public, and personally, I think that’s kind of an ugly trend. If it’s shipping, it’s not beta, kinda by definition.

Zennstrom says Ebay “overshot in terms of monetization,” which the Journal translates to mean, “eBay overpaid” and which FSJ translates to mean, “I robbed you big-time, frigtards.”

I have 228 feeds in NetNewsWire. I’m guessing that’s a fairly typical count. It ends up being about 30-60 new news items a day. I noticed I was reading my news in what may be a unique way and thought I’d share…