OSCON Highlights: openTalk 2.0 and cxap
Damian Conway is giving the funniest public flogging I have ever seen. He is single-handedly kicking the ass of Web 2.0, Sxip, patents, patent vulture firms, snake oil crypto, Microsoft, Google, r0ml and all the rest of us all at the same time.
Great quotes include:
- We have a patent on replacing the letter in a name with x, but still pronouncing it the same way.
- Every time you read the name Microsoft, you will see a kitten. We call it "Pavlovian Marketing"
- We thought that we might call it … firefly, fireangel, firebuffy. Then it became obvious - the new browser is called FireWhedon.
I sure hope that O'Reilly recorded this session.
Update 1
I just registered cxap.{biz,net,org} - now to go ask Damian what he would like me to do with them. :)
Update 2
Damian approves. :)
As time permits, the cxap family of websites will provide valuable information on the uniquely innovative business activities of cxap inc.
For now, the URLs are redirected to a site that discusses why software patents are so cxappy.
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July 28th, 2006 at 21:31
Yep, I was there and man it made me laugh, cry and shit a few bricks all at the same time.
I want a CXAP shirt
of course they will need my ccn
Not matter that this was all just an amzing send up, i want to see a firewhedon browser..maybe some one with free time can mod the moz code with things like jaynescript(sn) and captntightypants filters(sm)
And its already gotten a mention over on http://whedonesque.com/comments/10975 thanks to the megawhedonminion b!x(the one true)(sm)
-tomhiggins
July 28th, 2006 at 22:13
I cxap T-shirt would be so awesome.
I couldn't resist. I just registered cxap.{biz,net,org} - now to go see if Damien would like them.
July 29th, 2006 at 16:21
You have an old and seriously out-of-date URL for Damien Conway. He no longer is lecturer at Monash University (hasn't been for a about a year now).
He now runs his own consulting company full-time.
http://damian.conway.org
I would guess that you simply cut-and-pasted the first Google entry for Damian Conway …
You could have checked his Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Conway
July 29th, 2006 at 18:52
Hi Roger,
Thanks for the correction!
(I didn't just grab the first Google entry for Damian. I grabbed the first funny entry. :)
Cheers!
–zak
July 29th, 2006 at 23:17
So what's next then? Attention Xrust?
August 2nd, 2006 at 18:38
The T-shirts and other merchandise are now available:
https://www.cafepress.com/cxap
Spread the word. ;-)
Damian