Peter, thank you for this explanation of text :-) Le 2 mai 2010 à 11:18, Peter Alcibiades a écrit :
> > "It is largely an ayn rand anarchist after school club for all white mall > arcade raised nerds lacking in any real vision" > > OK, a deconstruction. > > The writer considers (for reasons he does not make clear) that advocates of > Open Source software are followers of the US novelist Ayn Rand. Rand was a > curious figure who ran a small cult political movement at the end of the > last century, called Objectivism, and wrote several awful novels. > > The writer thinks that Rand and her followers were anarchists. (I don't > think they were). They are usually thought to be extremely right wing. > > The next phrase suggests that he thinks Open Source advocates are infantile. > He says "after school club". That is, they are morally at least still at a > level of needing to be under parental and teacher control, and their > participation in Open Source is analogous to an after school club activity, > strictly juvenile. > > "all white mall arcade nerds" > > They are all white skinned 'nerds', that is people with no social skills and > an obsession with technology. I am not sure what their color has to do with > this, but still.... > > An arcade is a sort of enclosure, and a games arcade will have lots of game > machines in it, and a mall is a shopping mall. So he suggests that open > source advocates have spent their youth in shopping mall corridors playing > video games on machines, and that this is the extent of their culture. > > Not only that, they are white, and followers of Ayn Rand, and anarchists > with it! > > Well. I hope that helps you understand the English. Understanding the > thought is something I cannot help you with.... > -- > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Apples-actual-response-to-the-Flash-issue-tp2075668p2122649.html > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
