I'm a pop star!

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Someone pointed out to me that I'm featured in two recent Boycott Novell posts. In the first one, I learnt that I'm not a representative of Free/open source software, while the second post shows how Novell still controls GNOME’s direction through me (and this could be a way for Novell to influence GNOME into becoming more dependent on Mono).

Oh, I'm certainly not perfect, but I would think that having contributed to GNOME and free software in general for something like 6 years during my free time before I joined Novell could, you know, count a little bit. Had I stopped contributing in my free time, maybe it would make some sense? Actually, I should do that: I'd have much more time for sleep ;-)

Also, I must admit I didn't know Novell is telling me where GNOME should go; but now I wonder: could I be hypnotised? Or someone could be invading my dreams in some way to influence me! Or wait, I know: there has to be some subliminal messages sent on my screen! That's it, surely! More seriously, how to explain this... I think I'm way more a GNOME person in Novell trying to make Novell change, than a Novell person in GNOME trying to make GNOME change.

But thanks for the good laugh! The conclusion of all this, I guess, is that it means I'm now a pop star! Woohoo :-)

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1. Rodney Dawes [14/11/2009@18:24] [reply]

I like how the second post also says "MIguel stepped down as director of the board 2 years ago." He sure has a strange concept of time. :)

2. jorge [14/11/2009@18:29] [reply]

They didn't even mention the ice cream!

3. shermann [14/11/2009@18:37] [reply]

Hey VUntz,

I thought I'm ready for the asylum regarding my situation, but now I see there are people with more problems, then I ever will face.

Funny,

\sh

4. Frankie [14/11/2009@18:39] [reply]

boycottnovell-ers are the open source equivalent of the birthers/truthers/anti-vax morons.

5. Jo Shields [14/11/2009@19:47] [reply]

Your so-called "contributions" pale into insignificance compared to the life-or-death work performed by sites like Boycott Novell, without which Microsoft would already have taken control of all world governments and forced GNU/Linux advocates into the slave pits.

Shame on you for mocking their essential work.

6. gicmo [14/11/2009@19:48] [reply]

You still didn't win the Icecream-Deathmatch. Mr. Pop-Star! ;-)

7. Vincent [14/11/2009@20:30] [reply]

@gicmo: that's completely not true! I won the first ever ice cream deathmatch, which was against the great Diego. Sure, there were not a lot of participants, but still, it should count :-)

8. TheGZeus [14/11/2009@20:34] [reply]

youtube-dl -l "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy1e..."

9. Misc [14/11/2009@23:12] [reply]

Well, that's what someone controled by Novell would tell :)

10. Bruno Boaventura [15/11/2009@00:46] [reply]

Hey guy! You deserve so much ice cream!!! Based on:
"I think I'm way more a GNOME person in Novell trying to make Novell change, than a Novell person in GNOME trying to make GNOME change."

11. Dan [15/11/2009@01:48] [reply]

You should rel="nofollow" those links. Don't feed pagerank to the trolls.

12. diego [15/11/2009@05:29] [reply]

I must say that Vincent cheated making me eat more pizza than him.

13. Joe Shaw [15/11/2009@06:53] [reply]

"Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?"

14. Legion [15/11/2009@08:53] [reply]

Roy Schestowitz is the author of The Linux Hater's Blog, so you should take his mis-direction on boycott-novell with a grain of salt. :)

15. Andreas Nilsson [15/11/2009@11:09] [reply]

Excellent journalism!
Maybe we can invite Roy to be a keynote speaker at Guadec, in order to enlighten and warn us about the true nature of Vincent Untz.

16. Elroy [15/11/2009@12:25] [reply]

That website is always good for a laugh. I still expect them to one day put up a photo of their team and find out they are all wearing tinfoil hats :D

17. Jo Shields [15/11/2009@13:43] [reply]

@Andreas

Roy has been offered sponsorship for community events in the past, but fears for his personal safety where Novell staff may be present. See http://boycottnovell.com/2008/12/20...

18. Jeffrey Stedfast [16/11/2009@01:05] [reply]

Didn't Roy Schestowitz claim (in response to a question by Jono on FLOSS Weekly #91) that he never ever made personal attacks against GNOME or other Novell developers? Caught in another lie (of course, Jono caught him in the lie live on the podcast too, but hey, more proof is never a bad thing!)

What an asshole.

19. ollinux [16/11/2009@19:58] [reply]

I'm an libre software advocate since 20 years and I dare to say that these kinds of guys have absolutely no ideas about what commercial companies brought to open source. (Redhat, Novell, Sun, etc ...).
I read the same kind of stupid arguments on linuxfr every time my company announces a new version of Codendi : http://www.codendi.com.
They don't realize that engineers behind this product are truly opensource lovers even if we try to make business with it. I don't know who these guys are, and most of all, what they do to earn they living ?

20. untitled9 [16/11/2009@22:11] [reply]

omg stop feeding the trolls

21. Dave Neary [23/11/2009@15:19] [reply]

Hi Vincent,

Not quite a star yet - you're not fully a star until Sam Varghese knows your name :)

Cheers,
Dave.

22. Lefty [17/12/2009@16:55] [reply]

You know, we've had our suspicions about you all along. It was all those "I <3 VUNTZ" cards up on the "Love Board" at GUADEC that gave you away. Nobody loves anybody _that_ much.

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