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Red Hat And Lineo Respond To MS Embedded Linux FUD
jeffy124 writes: "Red Hat and Lineo, the major spearheads of Embedded Linux, have said that Microsoft's recent white paper comparing Linux and Windows XP embedded is full of inaccuracies, false facts, and overall distorts the value of Linux in general. Lineo has gone as far to say it flat out lies about Linux. ZDNet has Lineo's response, Red Hat comments, and a summary article." Updated by HeUnique: LynuxWorks has also wrote a response (only this one is a bit more detailed).
Yes, he did post almost the identical thing very recently. My guess is that this is an anti-GPL troll.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
BTW, whoever moderated this as a troll moderated out of opinion instead of out of any kind of objective measure of how good the post was.
This person clearly stated an anxiety people in industries dominated by stupidly restrictive intellectual 'property' conventions and ideas. Industries where intellectual 'property' becomes a weapon instead of an incentive.
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Learn to read, and then use the skill to read the comments to the post before posting something like this. For instance,
Here
Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest
It looks like ol' Bill is starting to post on /.
Self improvement is masturbation - Tyler Durden
Is that like one of those slogans in 1984, you know that can be read backwards and forwards? that is, if Self improvement is masterbation, does masterbation improve the self?
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
I have also been paying attention to the stuff you post that DOES get modded up, and it does appear pretty coherent, ontopic, etc. Which is why I've added you to my friends list on my Journal (you're the first), and will continue to monitor your efforts to put some sense back into this site.
Feel free to add me as a friend, but unfortunately, I haven't seen any blatant abuses happen on my account since I've already learned the 'slashdot way', and most of my comments are either funny, or some rant about why Linux rulz or the RIAA/MPAA suck, and generally get modded up.
Anyways, good work with the underground, keep it up. If nothing else, it's funny to watch guys getting paid to spell badly screaming at their users for complaining about slashdot. LOL!
I recall the Steven Satchel interview, and the point he made about how slashdot was more widely read than most people think. Interestingly, this point has been lost on even its own editors. They may want to tone down their rhetoric on how great their site is if they want anyone to pay serious attention to some of the truly crappy issues that I think do need addressed in the technology/political/legal arena today.
P.S. It's no use posting this one anonymously, and besides, the 50 Karma cap ain't THAT special. ;) If I'm lucky, I might even receive some of my very own negative editor moderation. ;) ;)
It got moderated down while I was composing my other comment, and I didn't look at all the replies first before responding again.
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