Tetris Creator Claims FOSS Destroys the Market

alx5000 writes "In an interview conducted last week with Consumer Eroski (link in Spanish; Google translation), the father of Tetris Alexey Pajitnov claimed that 'Free Software should have never existed,' since it 'destroys the market' by bringing down companies that create wealth and prosperity. When asked about Red Hat or Oracle's support-oriented model, he called them 'a minority,' and also criticized Stallman's ideas as 'belonging to the past' where there were no software 'business possibilities.'"

News Flash: bitter ex communist hates communism

[spun]

Details at eleven.

Obligatory, sorry.

[RobertB-DC]

Someone has to say it.

In California, you play Tetris.
In Soviet Russia, Tetris play YOU!

(thank goodness for burnable Karma...)

Re:What do you expect...

[The Ancients]

from a Microsoft employee?

Chair throwing, and dancing like a monkey. You?

Oh yeah?

[arotenbe]

Tell him to look at this link [percederberg.net].

He has a point...

[PinkyDead]

I was discussing with a client today about whether to use a service oriented architecture on a Redhat server supported by an Oracle database, but he was much more keen on using a vertical block model with a rotational function that maximized resources by removing redundant full rows, and had pretty colours and a catchy tune.

Re:What do you expect...

[khellendros1984]

I expect complete and absolute support for "DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS"!

Re:bringing down companies that create wealth

[rev_sanchez]

Tetris was originally designed as a training tool for late Soviet-era transport interests. The idea was to reduce shipping costs by training load masters to improve the density of packing freight cars, container ships, and trucks.

This is all covered in my book, Shit I Made Up About The Russian Software Industry.

Re:Everybody's got a right to be wrong.

[Wandering Wombat]

Woo, oxygen bras!

Reads it again...

Awwwwwwwwwww.............

Re:Everybody's got a right to be wrong.

[non]

you're close. its more like, "clean environment campaigns are ruining the market for bottled water."

Re:Everybody's got a right to be wrong.

[arotenbe]

Free air is destroying the market for oxygen bars!

I am a representative from the AIAA (Air Industry Association of America). As a firm believer in the rights of plants and blue-green algae to earn money through their photosynthesis, I find it irresponsible and criminal that animals across the world use oxygen without paying the creators royalties. Therefore, I have decided that I am going to sue everyone on Earth. Not just humans, mind you. All of you bears and tigers and piranhas will have to pony up too! Gwahahaha! GWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA AAAGGHHHAGHH GET IT OFF ME GET IT OFF ME AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Re:Everybody's got a right to be wrong.

[ColdWetDog]

Didn't realize that free air is made by an intense effort of people applying their talents.

Funny, I thought it was photosynthesis and plants. Now, if you meant hot air ...

Re:Actually he's half right

[aesiamun]

You use Steve Jobs as the extreme for closed source software?

Are you sure you can't think of someone more...qualified?

Re:Obligatory, sorry.

[Drooling Iguana]

On Slashdot, joke lets go of YOU!

Re:Obligatory, sorry.

[rrkap]

This joke is never obligatory! Will you people finally let it go?

I for one welcome our humorless overlords.

Farewell sweet, sweet karma

And another obligatory....

[sconeu]

You must be new here....

Re:News Flash: bitter ex communist hates communism

[frission]

>> Reductio ad absurdum with a twist.

Don't come at us with your Harry Potter speak...

Re:bringing down companies that create wealth

[Chris Burke]

The idea was to reduce shipping costs by training load masters to improve the density of packing freight cars, container ships, and trucks.

I'd figure the easiest way to do that would be to get rid of all the L-, T- and S-shaped shipping containers.

Re:bringing down companies that create wealth

[JazzLad]

it's available on YouTube - can't provide a link right now

Why? In Pakistan?

Re:Everybody's got a right to be wrong.

[Nefarious Wheel]

Sir, I support your stand to protect the rights of the ordinary oxygen-producing life form

I am an anaerobic life form, you insensitive clod!

Re:Obligatory, sorry.

[sammyF70]

Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of jokes like that!!

Re:bringing down companies that create wealth

[WilliamSChips]

Personally, I like to arrange things so that there's just enough room to fit the penis-shaped shipping container and four lines black out.

Re:Everybody's got a right to be wrong.

[smurfsurf]

And whores likewise complain that girlfriends and wifes destroy the sex market.

ASCII graphics FT...W?

[poot_rootbeer]

He's right. Take a look at this screenshot of FOSS about to destroy The Market:

|F.........|
|O.........|
|S.........|
|S.........|
|..........|
|.TheMarket|
|.TheMarket|
|.TheMarket|
|.TheMarket|
------------

Re:bringing down companies that create wealth

[Chris Burke]

Personally, I like to arrange things so that there's just enough room to fit the penis-shaped shipping container and four lines black out.

You don't have to use euphemisms, we won't judge. Just say "my penis".

Re:Obligatory, sorry.

[Tikkun]

But can they run Linux on their lack of humor?

Re:Obligatory, sorry.

[RobertB-DC]

The fact that this joke, despite never being funny to begin with and being repeated to death by nerds everywhere ad nauseum, is still being modded up (to 5 for christsake) has convinced me to never try to actually instill any kind of sense into any of the people who post comments here ever again. So as long as the humor here is always going to be mindlessly repeated garbage, I'm going to go back to post spamming goatse, poop, and butts, which I find to be much more consistently fulfilling, and frankly, hilarious.

You must be new here.

(oh, come on, you *knew* that was coming)

Re:What do you expect...

[monxrtr]

I'd like to a game made, where a baboon throws chairs that flip-roll down levels that you have to jump over to advance to harder levels ... I call it Developers Kong.

Re:bringing down companies that create wealth

[Lost Engineer]

Clearly they have not seen "leave Britney alone."

Re:Obligatory, sorry.

[Anonymous Coward]

No, but NetBSD...

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Re:Everybody's got a right to be wrong.

[BotnetZombie]

I, for one, refuse to be satisfied until we have a car analogy here.

Re:bringing down companies that create wealth

[that this is not und]

Actually, Tetris is a very 'Soviet' type of game. You struggle to keep up, until you fail. How long you can last before you fail is how you are scored.

In this dude's honor, I just brought up Gnu Emacs and played a game of tetris.

Re:News Flash: bitter ex communist hates communism

[Anonymous Coward]

sudo communism


Clever, keeping communism away from anybody without root password.

Re:bringing down companies that create wealth

[FF0000 Phoenix]

Alright, that's it. I'm going to start boycotting Tetris. Starting about, oh I don't know, 15 years ago.

Flock of dumbass

[Kennon]

Reading about Alexey Pajitnov calling RMS's ideas on free software "the past" is like reading an article where A Flock of Seagulls [wikipedia.org] calls rap music a passing fad.

Re:bringing down companies that create wealth

[Schemat1c]

Tetris was originally designed as a training tool for late Soviet-era transport interests. The idea was to reduce shipping costs by training load masters to improve the density of packing freight cars, container ships, and trucks.

This is all covered in my book, Shit I Made Up About The Russian Software Industry.

Obviously you didn't see the BBC documentary on Tetris (it's available on YouTube - can't provide a link right now).

Whoosh!

Re:bringing down companies that create wealth

[elloGov]

"How do I put Tetris on this?" is the first question when you get a new electronic. The second is Linux. :) With the informative out of the way, let's go to the funny :) FOSS ignites passion, creativity, humanity, good and innovation. These are the goals I strive for each and every day. Clearly, Tetris man has profit on mind. Profit driven entities are good for one thing; PROFIT! If profit ruled, I might have been typing this on a mainframe. If profit ruled Slashdot would be pretty fuckin boring! If profit ruled, Tetris might have not walked to the hall of fame.