So you're saying he should pay 8 million to an oatmeal museum?
edit: Judging by the downvotes, clearly I didn't make my point as well as I hoped.
What I'm trying to say is this:
The name doesn't matter. You can't ask someone to donate 8 million to a cause because they're using a name that's now synonymous with a technology. If I sell trousers, that doesn't entitle the Jacob Trowser memorial fund a donation from me.
8 million dollar donation to build a Tesla museum? Why pay some shmuck that amount of money? Elon Musk is building his own god damn monument to Tesla. It's called Tesla Motors.
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Dear Oatmeal,
I see that your website uses CakePHP.
Can you please publicly contribute a tidy sum to all the open source software that you use?
Will you also contribute to underfunded research in universities which has made the Web/Internet possible which supports you?
You are right, but that said, the Oatmeal didn't name themselves TheCakePHP either.
So you're saying he should pay 8 million to an oatmeal museum?
edit: Judging by the downvotes, clearly I didn't make my point as well as I hoped.
What I'm trying to say is this:
The name doesn't matter. You can't ask someone to donate 8 million to a cause because they're using a name that's now synonymous with a technology. If I sell trousers, that doesn't entitle the Jacob Trowser memorial fund a donation from me.
8 million dollar donation to build a Tesla museum? Why pay some shmuck that amount of money? Elon Musk is building his own god damn monument to Tesla. It's called Tesla Motors.
Exactly. Why donate millions to a museum when there are starving scientists (like Tesla)?
(And yes, I know the Africa vs NASA argument.)
Hell, I'd donate money to see an oatmeal museum!
but but we must remember the dead. i for one would love to see a museum for Elu'tha.
Jesus Jet-Skiing Christ. All he did was ask. Politely I might add.