Anyone who visits the book shop in the nearest mall cannot avoid seeing a counter with three or four dozens of copies of a series of erotic novels whose title reminds, bearing no real relationship, the popular TV show called "Diatomea of Grey" (Actually, to some extent, there is, because the whole story goes about a young couple who want to play doctors and nurses, but with a slight touch of sadomasochism)
Avidly read by a predominantly female audience, these novels that apparently came from a fan-fiction that used the main characters of "Twinlight", tell the story of a girl who follows the game played by that Gray, a young millionaire that the author tells constantly how well smells and how attractive he is. (There is some logic behind that, because no human being would understand that the girl could accept joyfully all the things the boy does to her if he were ugly and bad looking. Having said that, it comes to my mind elections time, when men and women chose people, ugly and bad looking, although well dressed who do them afterwards things that are even worse, but that's another line of thinking completely different of this blog)
Last month, capt4in_h4xtur, an OpenBSD programmer and betatester, found a copy of the first novel in the series that his girlfriend had bought. Quite disciplently, he started reading it and found himself having read the first 300 pages in a weekend The 200 remaining ones were finished before the next Thursday. Shocked by the fact that the main character, filthily rich, gave the girl a MacBook! and after that, in order to dig deeper into disgust gave her not an Android phone with proprietary firmware, but a Blackberry!!, and angry as hell, he decided to write a version of that story able to respect each and every one of the 4 Liberties of Software.
Once finished the book, the author's intention is releasing it as an e-pub (of course without the slightest trace of DRM) under the title of "255 shades of geek". It will honoring and present in a positive way all those altruistic developers who release code thinking in the common good and not just in taking to the bed a silly girl. Reservations of abook, electronic or in celullose, have exceeded the wildest expectations.
Avidly read by a predominantly female audience, these novels that apparently came from a fan-fiction that used the main characters of "Twinlight", tell the story of a girl who follows the game played by that Gray, a young millionaire that the author tells constantly how well smells and how attractive he is. (There is some logic behind that, because no human being would understand that the girl could accept joyfully all the things the boy does to her if he were ugly and bad looking. Having said that, it comes to my mind elections time, when men and women chose people, ugly and bad looking, although well dressed who do them afterwards things that are even worse, but that's another line of thinking completely different of this blog)
Last month, capt4in_h4xtur, an OpenBSD programmer and betatester, found a copy of the first novel in the series that his girlfriend had bought. Quite disciplently, he started reading it and found himself having read the first 300 pages in a weekend The 200 remaining ones were finished before the next Thursday. Shocked by the fact that the main character, filthily rich, gave the girl a MacBook! and after that, in order to dig deeper into disgust gave her not an Android phone with proprietary firmware, but a Blackberry!!, and angry as hell, he decided to write a version of that story able to respect each and every one of the 4 Liberties of Software.
Once finished the book, the author's intention is releasing it as an e-pub (of course without the slightest trace of DRM) under the title of "255 shades of geek". It will honoring and present in a positive way all those altruistic developers who release code thinking in the common good and not just in taking to the bed a silly girl. Reservations of abook, electronic or in celullose, have exceeded the wildest expectations.
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