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Disney and its propaganda against open source in a teen comedy
- smashing 14y agoAnd to think it ruined an otherwise brilliant teen comedy. Next week it'll probably tackle VI vs. Emacs, explaining that Microsoft Word is a superior text editor to both. Maybe the season finale will cover how Bing is a better Internet Decision Engine than Google. Oh, think of the cliffhangers when patent litigation is covered!
- georgemcbay 14y agomeh. This is almost certainly an instance of "a GUI interface using Visual Basic to track an IP Address" (IOW, a vast simplification written or edited by someone who doesn't really understand the field) rather than a planned attack on open source.
- cheez 14y agoYep, the leap of logic is pretty straight forward. "Open source means anyone can contribute? HOLY SHIT THAT MEANS THEY CAN CONTRIBUTE A VIRUS"
- gee_totes 14y agoI always thought "a GUI interface using Visual Basic" was paid product placement.
- georgemcbay 14y agoYeah Microsoft is dying to get Visual Basic's name in front of all those mainstream primetime television viewers so that when they reach for a programming language to implement criminal tracking software, they'll reach for VB. Sounds legit.
- thatusertwo 14y agoI was not aware that Disney's children shows had become authorities on software.
- Yver 14y agoTo people missing the point: it plants the seed of distrust in kids' minds. This is not an innocent mistake which has no consequences. This is not a "goof." This isn't a character writing a virtual IP tracer in self-computing Visual Basix. This is a character saying "never trust open source."
- hcarvalhoalves 14y ago"Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity"