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Embedded Geek writes "Jack Ganssle has posted a column at embedded.com pondering whether Red Hat and other open source companies serving the embedded community are due a shakeout similar to the dot com collapse. He cites Red Hat's March cuts in their embedded division and their losses of $80M to $140M a year. He admits, though, that because the embedded market is smaller and many companies are privately held it is difficult to get a pulse on what's going on behind closed doors. "

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  1. Re:Open Source? More like Openly Racist by swankypimp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh my. While I don't doubt that this is intended as flamebait, I personally find it +5 Funny. Maybe the author should submit it to the Onion or SatireWire or something.

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    --All your stolen base are belong to Rickey Henderson
  2. what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    are you racist ?

  3. US study finds soccer dangerous! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Parents who worry about the dangers of football sometimes encourage their children to play soccer. But in terms of serious head injuries, it's no safer, researchers say.

    Players can get concussions from heading the ball, colliding, running into goal posts or hitting their heads on the ground

    1. Re:US study finds soccer dangerous! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      colliding, running into goal posts or hitting their heads on the ground

      It will take an American to play football (it's not soccer, it's football!!) like that.

  4. Heterosexually challenged Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Exposing the disgusting heterosexual-challenged life-style of Rob Malda is one of the favorite hobbies of the non-linux-using, heterosexual minority on Slashdot. However, Mr. Malda is a closet-homosexual when compared to the faggot-master -- Richard M. Stallman.

    One popular story on Slashdot is about Mr. Malda's "taco-snotting" habit. While this is completely revolting to heterosexuals, I will now expose how this is quite trivial to the rest of the heterosexually-challenged Linux community, and childs-play for the chief pirate-smoker.

    RMS was actually introduced to what is known as "Taco-snotting" at the tender age of 10, when his father witnessed his first erection and used the opportunity to corrupt him.

    Since this is neither the time nor place to discuss the evolution of RMS's (homo)sexual tastes, we will jump ahead several years to the present.

    Please, if you, or anyone else reading over your sholder is offended by the truth, do not read any further.

    RMS's favorite sexual activity is to be fucked silly by five other Linux-using homosexuals. His favorites include Jon Katz, CmdrTaco, CowBoiNeal, Alan Cox, and Hemos. You can use your imagination to picture this horrific scene.

    The worst part comes later. When everyone is almost ready to shoot, RMS jams a large funnel into his anus, and has Hemos pour one to two gallons of faggot cum into his colon. Any leakage is quickly picked up by the tounges of Mr. Malda and CowBoiNeal. Malda then proceeds to Taco-snot RMS with what he picked up.

    While this is happening, CowBoiNeal and Alan Cox like to give RMS what is known as "Open-source ear-wax". Their penises happen to be tiny (and lubricated enough with ass cum) to slip into his ear canals, where they proceed to shoot their loads.

    Its not over yet. For a long time, the Linux community was stumped with a quandary -- how could they get faggot cum to go INTO their penis?

    Once the disgusting above actions have taken place, the remaining homosexual semen is gathered up into a container, which is attached through a special hook-up to an air compressor. The other end of this container has a cathader (sp?), which is greased up and inserted into Mr. Stallman's pee-hole. After some charging, the atrocious contents are blasted into his penis and reproductive system at 200 psi.

    This device is, of course, open-source, and Freely available to any Linux faggot who dares to give it a shot.

    This is why Linux is a worldwide problem. More later.

  5. This thread belongs to trolls now! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    9 posts at +1
    49 posts at -1

    Way to go trolls!

    1. Re:This thread belongs to trolls now! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Just goes to prove:

      a) trolls are non-us people

      b) trolls get up very early in the morning

      c) trolls got drunk and stayed up all last night

      Hehe

      I'm not against trolls, I just like the funny or clever ones, I really don't care much for the ones that lie, especially about the GPL.

      -GigsVT

    2. Re:This thread belongs to trolls now! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      d) Trolls are techies who work the graveyard shift and are bored out of their skull.

  6. Re:My obligatory haiku. by The+Anime+Troll · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Karma whores enjoy posting ready-made haikus. When will this guy stop?

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    Kero-chan: KEEEEKIIIIII GA DAAIIIISUUUUUKKKIIIIIII!!!!!!!
  7. Re:My obligatory haiku. by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Angry troll complains
    No more poems, you karma whore!
    He must be jealous

  8. The first slashdot double dactyl? by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Karma Whorin' Galor'n
    NoMoreNicksLeft
    "When will he stop?" Pon-
    dered the troll

    "Super-slash-poetry
    doesn't amuse me; my
    super-slash-trollery's
    withered my soul!"

  9. Open Source development in action by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    DR. LUNIX TORVALDS
    TEL: 234 8023132472, FAX: 234 - 1 - 7595586
    HELSINKI, FINLAND

    Dear Sir,

    I write you this letter of request for partnership which I hope you will give your urgent attention. We worked as members of the Operating System / Penguin Abuse Committee inaugurated by the present Democratically Elected Committee of the Electronic Frontier Foundation headed by General Richard Stallman (rtd). We are empowered to deligently review, re-appraise, scrutinize and approve feces payments to Linux users who executed *BSD devils under the past operating system regime and our work is almost concluded.

    In the course of our work we discovered this fecal matter, which resulted from grossly over-used toilets, which were executed for the GNU is Not Unix Corporation (GNU) by a consortium of several Foreign Companies such as:

    VA SOFTWARE, RED HAT, INC., SUSE GMBH. AND A JOINT VENTURE OF MANDRAKE AND CALDERA GMBH FOR:

    • [1] THE EXPANSION OF THE FECAL NETWORK WITH LINUX USERS' FECES AND DOWNSTREAM PRODUCTS DISTRIBUTION AND SUBSEQUENT EVACUATION.
    • [2] CONTRACT FOR THE TURN AROUND MAINTENANCE (TAM) OF THE VARIOUS PENGUIN FECES FARMS IN THE COUNTRY.
    • [3] THE CONSTRUCTION OF STORAGE TANKS FOR LUNIX PRODUCTS (SEMEN).

    This amounts to the tune of 100 tons of fecal matter, but was over-invoiced to 150 tons of feces. And we deliberately approved these fecal deposits and all Lunix users have been paid with these penguins executed and since abused, leaving the large amount of Eric S Raymond's magnificent deposit floating in the escrow pool of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) ready to be paid for the sexual services from the products in item number [2] as stated above. Before digressing further I would want you to know that our GNU General Public License forbids us from owning any money or having heterosexual relationships whilst in GNU service; hence we are contacting you to be part of this transaction.

    We intend to use your anus as a front to get the over-invoiced amount of 50 tons of feces out of the BSD sewers and into a designated toilet by you. Not regarding your field of specialization (sphincter expansion) you are going to forward us with any name that we will claim executed the sewaging services in the turn around maintenance of the Penguin fecal abuse farms mentioned above. All logistics are in place and all modalities worked out for the smooth insertion of the feces within ten to fourteen days of commencement after the receipt of a semen deposit from you. You are going to get 25% of the feces by posing as the owner of this fecal matter, while my colleagues and I will get 70% to ourselves with which we wish to invest in Agriculture and Farming in conjunction with you (and 5% will be set aside for the use of both parties for all excretions incurred locally and internationally during the realisation of this transaction, including toilet paper). As a matter of fact you are expected to take a sincere inventory of your toilet paper.

    It is imperative to let you know that I am also a keen scatologist, with qualifications world-wide.

    Despite research carried out to verify and ascertain your personality we can only move ahead if you can further assure us of your anal capacity and homosexuality and promise to help and treat this proposal with utmost confidentiality. We are men of proven integrity in our various fields who have put in 22 - 30 years of fecal matter in the toilets of our country; we are therefore averse to having our image and anuses widened. That is why we should acknowledge the fact that confidentiality is the key to the smooth insertion of this infection free transaction.

    Awaiting your earliest positive response.

    Best regards and remain blessed.

    DR. LUNIX TORVALDS

    P

  10. Re:what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am a black patriot who is deeply concerned about the dilution of our strong black American culture by the inferior white, jewish, asian, and mexican culture. Why do they have to listen to rap music, wear baggy pants, eat fried chicken and smoke crack cocaine? Why can't they stay in their trailer park and eat grits and pork lard?