To Evil! May '05 Edition: Danny O'Brien: To Evil! Posted by: comforteagle To Evil! by Danny O'Brien Those who sow scandal and schism, Dante says, have their bodies split entirely in twain, and stumble about, split from bottom to topknot, in the Eighth circle circle of Hell. For obvious reasons, I'm not entirely happy with that judgement. Published May 11, 2005 - 10:00 AM Read more... 2 Comments

To Evil! April '05 Edition: Danny O'Brien: To Evil! Posted by: comforteagle To Evil! by Danny O'Brien Let me offer a new law of the Internet, a corollary to Godwin's Law. 'As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of it becoming about evil approaches one.' Published Apr 13, 2005 - 08:30 AM Read more... 1 Comment

To Evil! March '05 Edition: Danny O'Brien: To Evil! Posted by: comforteagle To Evil! by Danny O'Brien Looking through the notes for Evilitude in the Year of Our Lord 2005, February Division, there's just one place where the dark clouds gather; one place that is gathering to its breast its orcish bot hoardes, and whose all seeing "Oooooooooooo"s span across our enshadowed domain. Published Mar 15, 2005 - 08:05 AM Read more... 6 Comments

To Evil! Feb '05 Edition: Danny O'Brien: To Evil! Posted by: comforteagle To Evil! by Danny O'Brien For reasons too obvious to go into here, Bill Gates himself is permanently exempted for our monthly competition for evilness in the open source world. But, like Satan or the other voices in your head, we should expect him to chip in from time to time, if only to tempt and confound our vulnerable minds. Published Feb 18, 2005 - 06:15 AM Read more... 5 Comments

To Evil! Jan '05 Edition: Danny O'Brien: To Evil! Posted by: comforteagle To Evil! by Danny O'Brien December is always a tough month for us collectors of evil. Something else is out there, something bigger than us all. In the cold snow and the dark, it is stronger, swifter to find out who is naughty and who is ... not so naughty. They fear it, the humans. They work hard to hide their corruption from Father Christmas's all-seeing-eyes. Published Jan 12, 2005 - 04:45 AM Read more... 4 Comments

To Evil! of Novmber 2004: Danny O'Brien: To Evil! Posted by: comforteagle To Evil! by Danny O'Brien You don't get to where I am today - sole arbiter of good and evil in the open source world, I know, yes, cheers, thanks - without a sizeable degree of pompous self-righteousness. That's why the first nomination for evil this month has to be: Published Dec 07, 2004 - 06:49 AM Read more... 9 Comments

To Evil! of October 2004: Danny O'Brien: To Evil! Posted by: comforteagle To Evil! by Danny O'Brien By their fruits ye shall know them, we are told. Time once again to look at last month's open source devilry, select three nominations for Most Evil Conducted This Month, and ask: how about *them* apples? Published Nov 09, 2004 - 06:41 AM Read more... Comment

Evil of September 2004: Danny O'Brien: To Evil! Posted by: comforteagle To Evil! by Danny O'Brien They say that all that's required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. If only it were that easy. I spent October eating nachos and playing Kingdom Of Loathing in my duvet, yet still no sign of several-headed whores of Babylon waving triumphantly from Buckingham Palace's balcony. Evil must try harder. Published Oct 08, 2004 - 07:10 AM Read more... 10 Comments

Evil of August 2004: Danny O'Brien: To Evil! Posted by: comforteagle To Evil! by Danny O'Brien How do you work out who the movers and shakers are in the free software hacking world? For most of them, there's no income to be appraised, there's no stock market valuation to watch. What value can you give to these contributors, who work without care of reward, except maybe all those groupies hanging out at the stage door of the Sourceforge ftp servers? Published Sep 14, 2004 - 08:12 AM Read more... 15 Comments