Disney and its propaganda against open source in a teen comedy

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by abataasis • 14 years ago

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smashing• 14 years ago

And 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!

georgemcbay2• 14 years ago

meh.

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• 14 years ago

Yep, 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• 14 years ago

I always thought "a GUI interface using Visual Basic" was paid product placement.

georgemcbay2• 14 years ago

Yeah 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• 14 years ago

I was not aware that Disney's children shows had become authorities on software.

Yver• 14 years ago

To 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• 14 years ago

"Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity"

Disney and its propaganda against open source in a teen comedy

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