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LinuxOne Plans Merger, But Shows Few Signs Of Life

Posted by timothy on from the who'da-guessed-it? dept.

An unnamed correspondent points to this NewsForge article by the esteemed Grant Gross about the ongoing saga of LinuxOne, the long-beleaguered and much-abused phantom Linux vendor. Anyone else have light to shed on this story? You may also be interested in reading earlier stories about LinuxOne.

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  1. LinuxOne needs to improve their image... by Greyfox · · Score: 5
    They should get into porn and make money fast spamming. That'd radically improve their credibility and image in the community. At least porn spammers do something...

    It kind of blows my mind that you can for all intents and purposes publically plan fraud on a massive scale and keep the ball rolling with a shell company with no products or revenues for as long as they have without winding up in jail. It's like those pyramid schemes spams you get which always claim to be legal. I assume they consider legal "Not getting caught." So why hasn't this guy been caught?

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  2. Re:Check this out by Hanno · · Score: 4

    This phone transcript is a hoot! Go checkt it out!

    My favourite part (the caller asked about the set of applications that come with LinuxOne):

    04:18 - LinuxOne: "Ummmm...There's a terminal emulator, a RPM manager called KPackage."
    04:25 - Accipiter: "What is RPM?"
    04:26 - LinuxOne: "RPM is uh, the program language that you program uh, within Linux."
    04:33 - Accipiter: "Oh, so you can actually make programs with RPM?"
    04:35 - LinuxOne: "Yes, it's a C++ programming, uh, programming tool."
    04:38 - Accipiter: "Oh! Very cool..."
    04:40 - LinuxOne: "Uhhmmm... A --"
    04:42 - Accipiter: "Does that include a compiler so if I want to...if I write my - if I write my program in RPM, I can compile it with RPM too?"
    04:49 - LinuxOne: "Yes."
    04:49 - Accipiter: "Oh, Great!"

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  3. Check this out by Booker · · Score: 5
    http://ufies.org/txt/phonecall.html

    Linuxone has hopefully trained their phone staff since then...

    (there used to be an MP3 of the phone call somewhere...)

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  4. An entertaining story by Linux+Freak · · Score: 4

    The NewsForge article is definitely worth a read; it's an example of some very fine investigative reporting and is entertaining as well (particularly if you were following the earlier LinuxOne news over the last year and a half).

    This ``Micrometix'' company which is supposedly planning a merger with LinuxOne seems rather shady itself, eh? :-)