Dave Winer, editor of Scripting News and generally the biggest pain in the ass in the Valley, now is making trouble over the Free Steve T-shirts. He says the guy looks too much like him and he wants us to stop selling them. I told him, Dude, think about it, how else are you ever going to get this close to some woman's you-know-what? He wasn't amused. Says he'll take us to court. Dave just loves to have big fights with people. More, even, than he likes getting up close and personal with a coochie. A lot more.
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Dave Winer threatens to sue over Free Steve panties
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FSJ,
Well, you know- it DOES look like him.
Peace.
Shouldn't this have the "Free Steve" label?
Dave Whiner is more like it. Didn't he invent something?
"Dave Winer ... generally the biggest pain in the ass in the Valley"
More clues for the Fake Steve hunters?
Not a friend of Mark Pilgrim's, are you? I recall a spat over RSS. And after all what else would programmers argue over? Most people fight over girls or who spilt whose drink. Programmers get nasty over whose version of RSS does what.
Legally tussled Winer
Screams "Citizen Press"
Strangled by Attorneys.
Winer should have put down years ago. He's only relevant beause he's self proclaimed.
The original Anon on the Ashram
accept no substitute chakras
Dave winer has fought with basically everyone in the entire valley. The expected result of being a cockshit.
This 'clue' is about as useful as FSJ accidentally mentioning that he breathes sometimes.
Have you heard about the scrap between Jack in the Box and Carl's Jr? Sounds a lot like this!
add a free steve baner to your ebsite and support the cause! visit mcfluffit.com/fsj for the code!
Winer is a dinosaur, living off the sale of Living Videotext to Symantec almost 20 years ago.
Anon on the Ashram
i dunno, but i bet there's a *really* long list of people who'd pay for a "snuff dave" t-shirt.
Dave Winer's "Frontier" was pretty cool. I was doing a ton of cool and useful stuff with it ten years ago. It was easy to bend to all sorts of purposes, from web page templating (including some of the original blogging software) to very simply writing little stateful TCP/IP servers, proxies, man-in-the-middle tools for analysing protocols etc.
It's long been bypassd by the rest of the world though.
Dave Winer invented friggin RSS. Have you heard of it???
What's with the trolls reading FSJ who need to trash DW? Do you think by posting like anonymous chicken shits that you will actually convince someone of anything? OR do well crafted zingers like
'Dave Whiner'
'Winer should have put down years ago.'
'The expected result of being a cockshit.'
And my fav
'Anon on the Ashram'
As if anyone get's your oh so witty references. Cockshit.
As someone who's name is "Dick" -- I'd really enjoy a shirt that promised me to the public for free.
Especially the ones who stretch the shirt at the top. Developers stretch it at the bottom, and don't really appeal.
Ahem, If I looked remotely like a fatter version of Steve Jobs after he didn't shave for a month or two, but am named Dave W(h)iner with no Steve in my name whatsoever, why would I even care about shirts or thongs that state "Free Steve"?!
By the way Dave, if you read this your Scripting News website may have good content but looks totally ugly, go hire a freelancer from Apple to revise it.
My favorite Whiner moment took place back in 1993. Dave had been tirelessly pitching his complicated scripting system called "Frontier" 3rd party developers. Juust then, Apple announced it was developing a much better system-wide scripting environment called "AppleScript".
Dave freaked and threatened to sue. So someone on the Applescript team printed up badges to wear at the Apple Developer's conference.
They read "Applescript: the final Frontier."
Dave was not amused.
jack, your point is fairly solid, but there's a pretty long history of dave both coming up with cool stuff *and* whining like a screaming bitch about people not adoring him and his rather quickly bypassed "stuff" - and the record is equally long on questionability on the degree to which dave worked in solitude as he implies, e.g. rss. also, i'm not much for the anonymous coward approach some folks take, but you're point would be far less troll-like if you also had a url...
actually, i liked cockshit, jack. made me giggle. still does.
see here —
cockshit
{snicker! snicker!}
see?
but if the commentary on this blog suits not your taste, maybe we should help you get off of here, so you won't be so offended. anyone else wanna help our friend, jack, off?
{snicker, snicker, snicker ...!}
(i slay me.)
What was the name of that fake Dave Winer blog way back? The original anonymous writer(s) produced some pretty funny stuff, but as it was handed off to others, it eventually deteriorated into unfunny insults. Perhaps that was the original "fake" blog?
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