Are You Man or Mouse?

fygment writes "... according to recent studies. It seems were more closely related to rodents than the carnivores i.e. the primates didn't evolve from the noble jungle cats, wolves, etc. Were closer to rats. Of course this has long been suspected in lawyers and SCO execs ..."

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Re:the grammar-corrected article

[Anonymous Coward]

..says someone who either doesn't use the preview function or never has heard something about text formation.

I am amazed

[Anonymous Coward]

...At how quickly the Linux community comes to label anyone who disagrees with a majority a traitor. When SCO was selling Linux licenses and making money in the Linux world, where were you? Oh yeah, you praised SCO, you admired its good business models and potential profits to follow. SCO was the hero of the day, and Caldera fanatics could spend hours proving that their distro is better than RedHat, or let's say, SuSe.

And today, listening to you, one would imagine that there's no lowlier life form on Earth than SCO. That's the typical Linux way - try to make it selling free software, and when things don't work out, turn to lying. How are you better than SCO lawyers? If RedHat was running out of cash, don't you think something of similar extent might have happened?

Oh no, RedHat is good, SCO is bad, says Linux noob. We've always been at war with SCO and loved RedHat.

My impression of Linux users from reading this message board has not improved much. They will libel one of their own to excess as soon as a renegade refuses to follow the groupthink.

Re:I am amazed

[magores]

Does it help your impression of "this message board" any if I am a member of this site, and am not a Linux user (at least, not primarily), and I agree with all these "Linux noobs" that SCO is acting like a bunch of nimrods?

Setting aside the arguement of whether SCO is right or not, you must admit that the way they are trying to prove their point is Just Plain Bad.

A $3,000,000,000 lawsuit (vs IBM no less) sounds like a company that realizes they have nothing to lose, so they figure they may as well try to take everyone else down with them.

It's bad form, indecent, violates the whole concept of decency, and is.... Just Plain Bad.

Re:I am amazed

[magores]

I noticed that I got modded as off-topic my posting above.

In my own defense, if you take a look at the post that I was replying to, it is actually on the topic of THAT post.

Of course, that post was probably off-topic, so by extension, mine is as well.

Oh well, I'll take my lashings in good humor.

Re:This story writeup

[Associate]

Could be worse. I work with people who can't conjugate verbs, use the wrong 'to' and just can't speak English. They send countless internal documents based on previous mail messages where they cut and paste the same piss-poor spelling and grammar.
Example:

Would you have someone from your team to look for part number XXXXXXX?

They make ol' fygments (sic) look like a Pulitzer.

Re:Recent?

[Henry V .009]

If you'd like to discuss this, we can do it in the comments section of my site.

Re:Uhh

[danny256]

I'm a troll, and I'll tell you. The reason I troll is because I'm forced to read slashdot because its a good tech news website, but I also use windows and hate open source and linux and in general disagree with most of the agendas being pushed on slashdot. So I troll as an AC as a way to vent my rage. If you want to reduce the number of trolls of slashdot, fix the corrupt moderation system so that my pro MS comments have a chance of not being modded troll. I think the first step would be to remove unlimited mod points from the editors (Michael).

One more thing, the grandparent was not a troll, but a flamebait.