Orifice Open

March 16th, 2007

everybody loves eric raymond episode 63 strip

I had to scrap the first strip because I’d confused Office Open with Open Office when writing it. Who’d have guessed people could make that kind of mistake. Not Microsoft, surely.

Bruce Schneier with guns for some reason

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Knuth is my Homeboy t-shirts

Knuth is my homeboy T-shirts

Available at the ELER Shop. Be the envy of the tiny minority of your friends who know who Donald Knuth is.


20 comments

  1. Damn ISO, damn M$ and damn that Lisa…. Someone in ISO is getting some moneeeeeeeeyyyyyy!

  2. Oh really… they SHOULD get some money don’t they.

  3. OK… who’s that on the left?

    (ad who’s that on the Tshirt on the left?)

  4. Zen koan time:

    How many standards does $40B buy?

    What is the sound of one shill blogging?

    Which is cheaper to buy, the ISO or IOC?

  5. You mean Linus? He had something to do with Linux, I think… :-P

  6. The one on the right is Linus Torvalds. The shirt has the face of Miguel de Icaza, one of the founders of Ximian and the GNOME project.

  7. what happened to linus’s eyebrows?

    :(

  8. Boy, that is a goofy picture of linus this week.

  9. He looks like a cross between Linus and the California governator.

  10. When is the Che Stallman t-shirt going to be available?

  11. [...] Humor: Orifice Open [...]

  12. This one isn’t nearly crude enough and it was published a mere 11 days after the previous. Standards around here are really falling!

  13. I prefer Torvalds with asynchronous eyebrows.

  14. An African or European one?

  15. Huh? I don’t know that. Aaarrgh!

  16. [...] saw that Everybody Loves ESR has a great comment on the way that microsoft’s format gotstandards approval. It’s a pretty funny strip in general, though it uses geek vernacular, and some geek [...]

  17. With a name like this, I really expected this strip to have another goddamn goatse reference… thanks, John, for never doing *that* again.

  18. [...] to one of my favorite web comics, Everybody loves Eric Raymond, I discovered two rather interesting articles in the OpenXML and ODF [...]

  19. Just stumbled on this. So far I’m liking it, clicking the orange button…

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