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Is it any wonder people think Linux users are a bunch of flaming homosexuals when its fronted by obviously gay losers like these?! BSD has a mascot who leaves us in no doubt that this is the OS for real men! If Linux had more hot chicks and gorgeous babes then maybe it would be able to compete with BSD! Hell this girl should be a model!

Linux is a joke as long as it continues to lack sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?! Wouldn't this just make your Christmas?! Yes doctor, this uber babe definitely gets my pulse racing! Oh how I envy the lucky girl in this shot! Linux has nothing that can possibly compete. Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Wouldn't this be more liklely to influence your choice of OS?

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Don't you wish you could get one of these? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Don't be a fag! Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

Is it any wonder people think Linux users are a bunch of flaming homosexuals when its fronted by obviously gay losers like these?! BSD has a mascot who leaves us in no doubt that this is the OS for real men! If Linux had more hot chicks and gorgeous babes then maybe it would be able to compete with BSD! Hell this girl should be a model!

Linux is a joke as long as it continues to lack sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?! Wouldn't this just make your Christmas?! Yes doctor, this uber babe definitely gets my pulse racing! Oh how I envy the lucky girl in this shot! Linux has nothing that can possibly compete. Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Wouldn't this be more liklely to influence your choice of OS?

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Don't you wish you could get one of these? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Don't be a fag! Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

Is it any wonder people think Linux users are a bunch of flaming homosexuals when its fronted by obviously gay losers like these?! BSD has a mascot who leaves us in no doubt that this is the OS for real men! If Linux had more hot chicks and gorgeous babes then maybe it would be able to compete with BSD! Hell this girl should be a model!

Linux is a joke as long as it continues to lack sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?! Wouldn't this just make your Christmas?! Yes doctor, this uber babe definitely gets my pulse racing! Oh how I envy the lucky girl in this shot! Linux has nothing that can possibly compete. Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Wouldn't this be more liklely to influence your choice of OS?

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Don't you wish you could get one of these? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Don't be a fag! Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

Is it any wonder people think Linux users are a bunch of flaming homosexuals when its fronted by obviously gay losers like these?! BSD has a mascot who leaves us in no doubt that this is the OS for real men! If Linux had more hot chicks and gorgeous babes then maybe it would be able to compete with BSD! Hell this girl should be a model!

Linux is a joke as long as it continues to lack sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?! Wouldn't this just make your Christmas?! Yes doctor, this uber babe definitely gets my pulse racing! Oh how I envy the lucky girl in this shot! Linux has nothing that can possibly compete. Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Wouldn't this be more liklely to influence your choice of OS?

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Don't you wish you could get one of these? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Don't be a fag! Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

That one's my favourite

http://electricrain.com/lists/archive/linux-usb/20 00/01/msg00092.html

"I have got my Umax 1220U scanner working pretty nicely under Linux. I have a small kernel driver that does control messages and bulk ins and outs and a usermode program that does all the protocol stuff necessary to get the scanner to do a scan. It does greyscale and color scans at 75, 150, 300 and 600 dpi and produces PGM or PPM files."

(posting continues at the link above... it is not my posting, but I do have a 1220U and will probably follow up on this myself)

Jeff

• To: hetz@nospam (Hetz Ben Hamo)
• Subject: Re: [linux-usb] USB specifications made non free
• From: Alan Cox
• Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:37:15 +0000 (GMT)
• Cc: greg@nospam (Gregory P. Smith), linux-usb@nospam
• In-Reply-To: from "Hetz Ben Hamo" at Feb 29, 2000 11:30:46 AM

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> Hi, I'm Hetz (also nicked HeUnique) - and I'm a slashdot.org author..
> Should I post this as a story on slashdot? what do u say?

I think it might be a good story to post - in about a weeks time. Right now people are knocking politely on USB forums doors saying 'this might be a bad idea'. Its going to be much easier for them to say 'hey you might be right' or 'that was a mistake' if they haven't been hit by a nuclear warhead as well.

If nothing comes of it then you have a better story at the end of the week and time to phone the USB forum and ask them for their side of the story.

You know...I really should start making posts of actual substance, instead of continually tearing down Slashdot, but I think Slashdot could be an excellent medium if some issues with it were addressed - such as journalistic integrity (as if there were such a thing).

Read here. Randy is the "maintainer" for linux-usb. I believe that this slashdot article was rushed out too early.

"Methinks the editor should have done some research himself and put some of these in the story."

If you had read all the messages you would have seen that HeUnique was not only reading those links, he posted to the thread asking for more information and their (usb developers) opinion on posting this story to slashdot.

Interestingly, Alan Cox suggested waiting for a week before posting to Slashdot to give them a chance to explain and/or change back graciously before being "hit by a nuclear warhead"

Maybe Slashdot could make some sort of community watchdog section where things that seem suspicious could be posted, but in sort of a beta state before going to the main page.

For those of you who have no idea what this is about, go here .
And just for fun, also go check this out.

-B

One thing should be noted also, since the posting is somewhat unclear on this topic.

The suggestion is not that the group who received the award has now closed off some specs. See #15 for example.

The suggestion is now that this USB group got $10k to use, the specs suddenly cosy money. (See post from Alan Cox).

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P.S. Another message on the list hints how you can hijack an account and get at the docs.

Anyone willing to do this and post a login? Or make a mirror?

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Perhaps the Slashdot article doesn't make it clear - it's not the Linux-USB people who are restricting access, it's USB-IF who are the culprits in the matter.

My question is, why would someone want to restrict the development of drivers for their products? Surely this is simple maths - no support, less people buy. Take the SBLive for example - this has excellent support under linux, and many Linux weenies went out and bought it [GRiN] ...

• http://www.usb.org/developers/docs.html
• http://electr icrain.com/lists/archive/linux-usb/2000/02/msg0103 5.html
• http://electr icrain.com/lists/archive/linux-usb/2000/02/msg0105 5.html

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• http://www.usb.org/developers/docs.html
• http://electr icrain.com/lists/archive/linux-usb/2000/02/msg0103 5.html
• http://electr icrain.com/lists/archive/linux-usb/2000/02/msg0105 5.html

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