Clic!Dev, ‘Tate, and many more projects!

OK. Isn’t anyone going to put a bit of perspective on he whole Sarah Lacy thing?
Look, guys. Drop it. Seriously.

There isn’t a “Lacygate”. Stop postfixing everything you do not like with “-gate”. Now, Allen Stern wants Lacy to apologize.
I, too, was in the room, Allen - mind if I call you Allen?. And I did not walk out of the whole thing red in the face, looking for justice.
I merely felt that there was some joke between Lacy and Zuckerberg and I was not in on the joke. That’s OK, I thought. I’ll get some value from the interview as they move on. Granted, that never happened. Now, I will never be able to tell whether that didn’t happen because this was one of those “zero calories” interviews or because of the heckling.

I do not remember the exact timeline but I am fairly certain that she did not “run to Twitter” to tell us to screw off. I actually believe that writing this presupposes a cognizance of Twitter that she did not, at the time, master.
There is not doubt she reacted badly, but I find it a bit odd, to claim to have lived through this thing as a wronged customer. It was clearly announced that this was *not* going to be a groundbreaking event and, well, it wasn’t. I went to SXSW to learn things and network with other professionals - and party, but don’t tell my boss. Mission accomplished. Everything else should be treated like small potatoes. Because it is. Or it should be.

Oh, great.
Merry X-Mas and all that. Unless you’re ThinkSecret. Or Fake Steve Jobs. See here.
And here.

Of course, there is still the possibility that it’s another hoax created by our favourite Steve Jobs.

Here are two groups of people who are not about to get any more of my money if this is all true:

Apple:
Sorry, guys, but coolness is part of your products’ appeal. If you behave like a-holes, I will simply dedicate more of my time writing drivers for Linux.
I know, this isn’t the first time Apple enters ************ mode. But, obviously, after their ThinkSecret victory, there is enough blood in the water to keep the frenzy alive for a while.

The EFF:
Oh, come on guys. Again, I have no idea whether FSJ’ posts are pure hoax or the real thing. But when in doubt, I always get on my soap box. So, here goes: It is not the first time that I see a report of the EFF getting a less-than-positive result. And claiming victory over a site’s shuttering, I’m sure that FSJ is devastated, now that you made clear to him that freedom of speech is your thing, but only on your terms.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah and Kwanzaa, or whatever else helps you live with yourselves.
Chris out.

The text below is what I originally typed in the comments form at http://lifeonrails.org/2007/8/30/netbeans-the-best-ruby-on-rails-ide -a very informative Rails blog!- but as I was about to click on ‘Add that puppy’ (-G-) I decided against it, not wanting to become a comment troll myself.
So, it’s now here instead:

Joe,
As a JBuilder veteran, let me tell you that it saddens me to see you spend time writing a plug on this blog rather than working on your products. I was very disappointed with JBuilder 2006. The way I see it, after releasing an abysmally buggy JBuilder 2005, you apparently decided to throw the baby with the bath water. I do not know if you guys got overwhelmed by the complexity of your own product but it seems that you thought that, rather than fixing it, selling us a few Eclipse plugins rebranded as ‘JBuilder’ was going to do the trick.
After more than 7 years of sticking with you guys, I have moved my whole team to Netbeans and have nothing but praises for it. IMO, it is the product that JBuilder was destined to be. Except it also handles Ruby seamlessly, which feels like a natural evolution for us Java developers.

Now, feel free to tell me if I got it all wrong. It is not my intent to start a flame war with the Borland people and I would be very happy to be proven wrong since I was a JBuilder fan for so many years.

-C.