November 18, 2005

"Relinquished" is the new "graciously agreed."

Open Source Media, which airs a terrific public radio show, has a new post up about their their problem with OSM, which, I must say, makes OSM's defense of its name look really weak. Even stranger is OSM's “About Our Name” post, which keeps changing, but at one point said, as quoted by Brendan at Open Source:
There are other Open Sources. A gentleman named Christopher Lydon has an excellent web site called Open Source. His URL is www.radioopensource.com, and he graciously agreed to give us opensourcemedia.net.

Brendan responds:
This is just not true. And weird. We didn’t graciously agree to give them anything. We’ve never talked to them. They didn’t answer our email.
Right now, OSM has this "About Our Name":
There are other Open Sources. A gentleman named Christopher Lydon has an excellent web site called Open Source. His URL is www.radioopensource.com, and he relinquished the domain name opensourcemedia.net.
"Relinquished" is the new "graciously agreed."

8 comments:

Icepick said...

Jim, I'm sure there was a small bit of spittle visible in the right corner of her mouth when she typed this post.

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Icepick said...

Gosh-dang, this is getting to be hysterical. Check out the comments on this Dennis the Peasant post:

http://dennisthepeasant.typepad.com/dennis_the_peasant/2005/11/ill_fillet_roge.html

I'm getting these links from commenter Owl over on Roger L. Simon's site! I swear, the blogosphere is turning into that snake that eats itself....

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Chip said...

Probably much ado about nothing, as you know Ann.

Generic terms.

you know said...

making it all up is all they regret?

XWL said...

I can't help but think of that classic Butthole Surfers song, "Sweet Loaf" whenever regret is mentioned.


"Sweet Loaf"

"Daddy, what does regret mean?
Well son, the funny thing about regret is,
It's better to regret something you have done,
Than to regret something you haven't done.
And by the way, if you see your mom this weekend,
Be sure and tell her, SATAN, SATAN, SATAN!!!"