On: Tesla's relative asks Elon Musk for a donation to ...

[cscurmudgeon]

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?

[outside1234 → cscurmudgeon]

You are right, but that said, the Oatmeal didn't name themselves TheCakePHP either.

[Alterlife → outside1234]

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.

[cscurmudgeon → Alterlife]

Exactly. Why donate millions to a museum when there are starving scientists (like Tesla)?

(And yes, I know the Africa vs NASA argument.)

[shiven → Alterlife]

Hell, I'd donate money to see an oatmeal museum!

[knodi → Alterlife]

but but we must remember the dead. i for one would love to see a museum for Elu'tha.

[_f1dq → cscurmudgeon]

Jesus Jet-Skiing Christ. All he did was ask. Politely I might add.