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Blakes Seven To Return

Posted by Hemos on from the bad-acting-good-fun dept.

Clownfush writes "Blake's 7, magnificent UK low budget high drama Sci-Fi from the early 80's is to return, as a former star acquires rights to the show. "

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  1. What's with the Linux Community? by Michael's+a+Jerk! · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Linux community likes to hide behind the mantra of free and open
    software for all and as such has the twisted mindset that all software
    should be free for everyone. This should come as no surprise seeing
    that the Linux community seems to take pride in stealing anything they
    can get their hands on and breaking laws designed to protect IP at the
    same time.

    Linux users have been advocating downloading Microsoft True Type Fonts
    for years mostly because their own fonts and font system in general
    has been so horrific that Linux screen fonts in most stock installs
    are almost unreadable. Of course they will claim that Linux fonts are
    great but if that were really the case why is the internet clogged
    with Linux Font DeUglification documents written by Linux users?

    They even have documents that give a step by step procedure for
    stealing the Microsoft fonts and installing them on Linux systems!
    Notice in particular the instructions for the Tahoma font.

    http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/truetype.html
    http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

    Next we have Linux users violating the EULA for the X-Box and
    tinkering with it so that it can run Linux.
    Why on earth any sane person would want to take a bitching game
    machine like X-box and ruin it by installing Linux is a mystery to me.

    http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/index.php

    http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/faq.php

    Pay particular attention to the question about it being illegal and
    how they avoid answering the question.

    They are also doing the same thing with Sony Play station as well.

    http://playstation2-linux.com/faq.php

    None of this is going to hold up in a court of law and the Linux
    people who are leading these projects are looking for some serious
    trouble should Microsoft and Sony decide to pursue this matter.

    Finally we have the suit filed by SCO which claims that the Linux
    community at large has incorporated stolen code into it's open source
    programs.

    http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,936269,00.a sp

    This should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the Linux
    movement from the day Linux wrote the kernel.

    The Linux community has proven themselves to be a fight to the end,
    steal whatever can be stolen from big business because it is big
    business that is killing Linux.

    The Linux community has absolutely no respect for the property of
    others and will resort to any type of clandestine tactics to steal
    whatever isn't cemented down all in the good name of Linux.

    So if you are thinking of betting your business on Linux software, you
    had better think it over carefully, because if SCO should win, Linux
    will be out of business.
    And if SCO should lose, do you really think it is wise to bet your
    entire business on software that is supported by a community that
    promotes stealing and in fact is full of thieves?

    Food for thought.

    --

    I'm not Seth.

    1. Re:What's with the Linux Community? by Mandelbrute · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      if SCO should win, Linux will be out of business
      Linux is not a business, it is an operating system.

      Go back to sleep and let us return to our previously sheduled program - now with 100% more Zen and Orac.

  2. Imagine a.... by AllUsernamesAreGone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wonder if it'll have a beowolf cluster of Oracs this time?

    Sorry, it had to be said..