Clippy was never open source or "good" in any way, it not selling your data was a result of its time, not a conscious choice by its creators. The entire forced clippy "movement" is incredibly poorly thought out
Literally everyone hated Clippy. It was an absolute mockery of a useful assistant or feature, and at the time everyone detested Microsoft. I think this post is satire.
Clippy really ... wasn't bad? It mostly stayed out of your way, occasionally showed a button to perform a useful task, and could interact with the help system without having to click through 3 menus.
It wasn't a panacea but it was at least positive-value, unlike most current AI.
Clippy was never open source or "good" in any way, it not selling your data was a result of its time, not a conscious choice by its creators. The entire forced clippy "movement" is incredibly poorly thought out
This clippy white-washing is annoying as hell. Just like clipppy was.
My grandmother loved clippy.
Melinda French Gates back when she was Melinda French had a part in Clippy.
“Melinda French (then the fiancée of Bill Gates) was the project manager of Microsoft Bob”
Microsoft Bob is where Clippy was born.
Reference: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-life-death-mic...
Be like clippy, entirely useless and annoying?
A most forward thinking Bayesian network consumer product ever.
[delayed]
you're gonna make a microsoft mascot the face of not stealing your data? I like louis rossman but this is half baked at best.
Clippy was Microsoft was absolutely DO sell your data.
>"Clippy didn’t sell your data. Clippy didn’t hold your data hostage. Clippy was there to help you."
Clippy was there to demonstrate to you that it's now the computer "who" is in control.
Literally everyone hated Clippy. It was an absolute mockery of a useful assistant or feature, and at the time everyone detested Microsoft. I think this post is satire.
Clippy really ... wasn't bad? It mostly stayed out of your way, occasionally showed a button to perform a useful task, and could interact with the help system without having to click through 3 menus.
It wasn't a panacea but it was at least positive-value, unlike most current AI.
I never got value from him
yes obviously it's clippy because everyone hated clippy that is the point
the idea is that when your CEO goes on slack or teams or whatever and see 100 clippies they'll be "oh wow, nobody likes how we earn our dollar."
or the very least people who are concerned about surveillance will know who is on their team!
so just do it
I'm serious
What makes them think they can license Clippy out under the GPL?
Parody should be protected. But what makes it parody?