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Most parents have experienced their young children getting restless when waiting for a meal in a restaurant.

But not many get the bill at the end of it with a message describing their offspring as a 'little fucker'.

This is what happened to parents Craig and Kimberley Cartin at a Mexican restaurant in Halifax, West Yorkshire, where they received the receipt which had 'Thankyyou littell fucker written on it.



Visiting the brand new eaterie, called Cactus Joe's, on its opening weekend the family had already been frustrated by slow service and poor food, which caused hungry two-year-old Molly to complain.
'Unbelievably offensive': The family's receipt - the obscenity is the last item on the bill

The couple believe her mild protests triggered the shocking comment - despite being seated in the advertised 'kids' zone'.

Fuming Craig, a 34-year-old administrator, said: 'I couldn't believe my eyes. The meal was indifferent anyway but to be abused on the bill is unbelievably offensive.

'I consider myself a fairly easy-going guy but this was too much, it's awful behaviour.

'Molly was a bit grumbly, a bit moany, but her behaviour certainly wasn't terrible - so this was just uncalled for. Presumably they meant to delete it before printing but it's still no excuse.'

Kimberley, 25, who was also with one-year-old daughter Megan at the time, described how the family had to wait a long time for their meal and then the offensive bill.

She said: 'It was really quiet when we were in there.

'But somehow they still managed to take that long to serve us and after about 20 minutes, Molly started to get restless and a bit impatient.

'She wanted to get up and walk around but we wouldn't let her so she had a little tantrum.

'When we asked for the bill there was another long wait so I went up to pay at the counter and that is when I saw the swear word on the bill.

'I couldn't believe it. The woman looked really embarrassed and the manager apologised but I could still see people whispering and sniggering.

'It's out of order.'

Restaurant owner Steve Ryan apologised for the message and said the member of staff responsible, believed to be a 29-year-old manageress, had been sacked.

He said: 'This was absolutely inexcusable and it won't be tolerated. The person involved has been sacked and I am planning on consulting my lawyers to see if I can take further action against her.



'I have visited the customer involved and invited him to be our guest this weekend. We offer unreserved apologies.'

The incident rounds off a torrid first fortnight for the restaurant.

After opening on August 28 it had to close again just days later because the gas supply was inadequate causing dozens of cancellations.

Kimberley said she and Craig turned down the restaurant's offer to be their guest.

This open source foundation brought to you by … Microsoft?!

That’s correct - Microsoft has launched the CodePlex Foundation, with the aim of encouraging commercial software vendors to participate in open source software development, reports Ars Technica.

Ars wonders if the timing of this support for commercial investment in open source is entirely coincidental. After all, it comes hard on the heels of the news that the Open Invention Network is buying up 22 Linux-related Microsoft patents that had been sold to a consortium including HP and Cisco.

Not much evidence of that, though. Ars’ Ryan Paul finds the founding documents evince a typically neutral open source foundation, designed to operate as a licensing clearinghouse.

A look at the CodePlex Foundation’s documents indicates that it will function a lot like conventional open source foundations. Participants sign a contributor agreement through which they assign copyright to the organization. They also grant perpetual royalty-free patent licenses to all recipients of the code, including downstream redistributors. The language in the patent grant section is very similar to the language used in other open source foundation contributor agreements, such as the Apache Foundation’s Individual Contributor License Agreement. This means that any code that is contributed through the foundation is free of the patent concerns that some critics have raised regarding adoption of Microsoft’s technologies.

It’s certainly a creation of Microsoft. The interim board consists of Redmond employees and Miguel de Icaza of the Mono project. The effort is led by Microsoft’s Sam Ramji, an in-house open source evangelist who sees open source as broader than Linux. Ramji thinks Microsoft can support open source projects that support its products while competing with Linux.

Chris Duckett of ZDNet Australia notes that the foundation FAQ says:

“We wanted a foundation that addresses a full spectrum of software projects, and does so with the licensing and intellectual property needs of commercial software companies in mind.”

Duckett sees failure here:

The About page states that companies will contribute code, not patents, and that is what I think will stop the existing open-source community from going anywhere near the CodePlex Foundation. I can’t see any patent-encumbered CodePlex project being accepted into, or contributing code into, any large existing open-source project while still having the patent specter looming overhead–it’s something that the open-source community has tried to avoid whenever possible.

Source:

http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5420