“Nothing of value is free. It is very easy, Mr. Chairman, to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else’s property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where commonsense is lured and then quietly strangled.”
– Jack Valenti, MPAA
“If you design your own machine, you can’t fuss at people, because you’re one of just a few. How many Linux users are there?”
– Jack Valenti, MPAA
- Ars Technica: MPAA’s University Toolkit hit with DMCA takedown notice after GPL violation
- Matthew Garrett: MPAA don’t fuck with my shit.
- Matthew Garrett: More
- Wikipedia: MPAA’s Dan Glickman
- Wikipedia: Jack Valenti
- Wikiquote: MPAA’s Jack Valenti comedy goldmine
- ffii.org: Frits Bolkestein – digital copyright totalitarianism
- Wikipedia: Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act
- Geek t-shirts and stickers
Thanks to Gianni and Tig for help with script development.
165 replies on “GPL killed the MPAA star”
Ah man! DENIS! Heh! Oh, man! Alright lads, I think this is about time that there was a new comic up.
Too bad about the slowdown. This was my favorite comic when it was alive. My theory is that RMS is tinkering with gcc again. Or maybe ESR is mourning Ron Paul.
RMS considers himself a politician (actually ‘activist’) now, its unlikely that he is tinkering with gcc again.
I think “Published every blue moon” is starting to look like an appropriate subheading.
It’s more often than that. Note that “once a blue moon” is actually a determinable time measurement: http://www.obliquity.com/cgi-bin/bluemoon.cgi
I think “It had a good run” is a better subheading, before becoming a footnote in Internet history.
I honestly wish I had the time to devote to creating ELER fan-comics, because there’s so much great IT to make fun of every day!
I urge anyone capable of doing so to go for it and post the link here while people will still be checking.
Thanks in advance!
-WtC
Pretty please, I need an update. After someone posted this:
http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/nop-nop-nop-nop-nop#comment-12936
I started reading it, mainly because of curiosity, like “Oh, what’s this?”
Now, the lack of updates here has led me to !look forward to xkcd strips! It’s pathetic. Please, help me here.
PS: I also look forward to updates in icanhascheezburger. Do you understand now how desperate I am?
Since we may never get another ELER, here’s a link to a new geek comic that shows promise:
http://www.luvrgeeks.com/
Enjoy!
-WtC
Some of these are so well … researched, for want of a better word. When they’re bad, they’re pretty bad… But when they’re good, they’re the best!
Would be nice to see another…
Can we get some more Reiser jokes, please?
Being an ESR website, I guess it’s gone the way of his blog…
RIP: ELER
:(
This sucks. ELER was awesome.
Maybe if we all hope and pray and chant it might be resurrected some day.
*searches for copy of Necronomicon*
-WtC
:(((
ALERT! ALERT!
HANS REISER FOUND GUILTY OF 1ST DEGREE MURDER! SWITCH TO EXT3 OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES!!!
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/reiser-guilty-o.html
“If he did kill his wife, which is nowhere near certain, and then subsequently chopped up the body, I bet the pieces are of manageable size and spread evenly throughout a wooded area for easy, order-N retrieval… ”
MORE REISER JOKES NOW???????????????
:(((((((((
must…
have……
REISER JOKES!!!!!
-WtC
ubuntu is already releasing more often then this comic.
who wanna bet when it will loose to debian too?
Lose to Debian? At this rate it’s going to lose to Windows!
why did reiser crossed the street?
I don’t know, why DID Reiser cross the street?
-WtC
To get rid of John Leach once and for all.
I run reiserfs. Is it still being maintained, or should I seriously be shopping around?
I’m not real happy with this new version of reiserfs, anyway. The last time I deleted something, I couldn’t find the passenger seat from my car!
So, what about a Skype gives way on the GPL suit comic?
What about a 25-year-old bug in BSD comic???
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/11/1339228
-WtC
>>
Does anyone here know how to use the Gimp and have a keen sense of IT humor?
We need someone to take over the comic before it’s too late! Seriously!!
I’d be willing to donate at least $20 for a well-made and hilarious ELER resurrection comic, and I daresay I may not be the only one.
Any takers?
-WtC
Does anyone here know how to use the Gimp and have a keen sense of IT humor?
Clearly, no.
Reiser was convicted recently. That alone should provoke an update.
Уныние == Despondency
I 2nd the sentiment…
-WtC
What is “Skukotischa”???
-WtC
I don’t see any link to a website in any of your messages.
I don’t think you can post /any/ URL’s through this comment system.
Can you instead try splitting it up like:
www
dot
slashdot
dot
org
Thanks!
-WtC
Looks like the AC who keeps posting the super-long frowny face overflowed the comment system and *somebody* had to erase the last few posts.
Maybe he’s still alive and reading this now!
GIVE US SOME NEW ELER DAMMIT!
(pretty please?)
Thanks!
-WtC
The Internet begs and John Leach deems himself too superior to answer.
-AC
Woohoo! It’s now exactly 6 months since the last update! Yay!
…wait, that’s not good at all. How about one last strip with the words “the end” and be done with it?
– Res
I concur with Equivalent Series Resistance (ESR).
The ambiguity of ELER’s status is the really annoying part.
John: either bring it back or officially kill it. You owe us that much.
-AC
http://www.osnews.com/story/19839
“Hans Reiser Offers To Lead Cops to Nina’s Body”
Say it ain’t so, Hans!
My favorite quote:
“The sad thing is that more people have worked on ReiserFS than just Hans; the ReiserFS file system is now being discredited solely by the actions of Hans, even though this, of course, in a professional way has no influence on the code or the possible technical excellence of the file system itself. I find that to be a very sad state of affairs, since art (which code pretty much is) should never be discredited on the basis of its maker.”
ZFS ftw!
Hans is attempting to cut a deal for a reduced sentence.
In effect, he’s forking the conviction.
heh
Jim,
It looks more like the DA is offering Hans a deal – I don’t think he’s actually decided to accept anything yet.
-AC
what does Hans have o loose?
If Hans is actually innocent then there’s no way for him to produce a body.
-AC
That could be true if he’s guilty, too.
Say, if he put her in a wood chipper, or acid.
I’m just sayin’ that “no body” doesn’t prove his innocence.
Now, having her walk back into the daylight, *that* would prove it.
Time to fire-up the cloning machine.
“Very bizarre. I can’t imagine how you’ll get enough yuks out of
the premise to sustain an entire strip.” Sometimes ESR is right.
> Sometimes ESR is right.
… but not that often.
Procrastination killed the ELER star.
I vote for calling it a series, the Reiser comic is still the only thing on this site worth reading.
I think we’re setting a record for the most active discussion thread on an expired website.
Yay, we refuse to let it die!
-AC