OSDL Answers SCO With Kernel Awareness Campaign

prostoalex writes "Open Source Development Labs announced a new initiative to increase customer confidence in using Linux in business. The initiative is launched in answer to legal claims by SCO Group. So far managers and developers around the world are supposed to boost their confidence in Linux with the help of this little poster, which explains the kernel development process."

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I'll just wait...

[Anonymous Coward]

... until fark hosts a photoshopping contest of the poster.

SCO can make LEGITIMATE money!

[pridefinger]

What if they went on tour? 32 cities in 25 days...

Make sure all the big guns are there...Darl, et al...

And have a dunking machine...:)

I'd pay money for that!!!

-Pride

In wonder

[Leroy_Brown242]

How many of you linux boy and girls hav a new desktop image now? ]:3}>

Re:In wonder

[Karamchand]

I didn't know linux girl even exist!

Re:In wonder

[Urkki]

Uh. The picture does not have neither sexy-looking girls, nor "pretty" abstract computer graphics art, nor anything scifi/fantasy related. What kind of geek would want it as a wallpaper?

Re:In wonder

[platypus]

Is it funny or sad that you got a +5 Informative for that post?

Business model of OSDL

[Anonymous Coward]

1. Make poster with pictures of penguin
2. Randomly connect the lines
3. Draw stick figures.
4. ???
5. Profit!

Re:Business model of OSDL

[Anonymous Coward]

I, for one, welcome our new penguin-shaped overlords.

(see the poster)

Re:Education is great and all...

[grasshoppa]

...but do we really expect management, who has no idea about technology and IP rights to be swayed by a pretty poster vs. massive lawsuits that they hear about on the morning news?

This is the exact thought going through a management type's head:

Lawsuit...bad.

Poster...pretty! Sign me up!

Now, if we wanted to really influence them, we'd put flashy things on it.

Missing arrow

[arendjr]

I'm just missing a big red arrow with the text "You are here."...

Exploding kernel

[mezron]

The only thing that stands out to me in the picture is the red penguin sitting next to... what? a little volcano? Is that supposed to signify that the development kernel can blow up at any time or something? *confused*

Re:Mirror

[EverDense]

IE6 scaled the picture so that the words "ongoing peer review of code", looked like
they read "ongoing poor review of code". ;-)

Re:fark?

[helzerr]

Woah, someone who hasn't heard of Fark?!? It's not news... It's FARK!

What I'd like to know...

[Anonymous Coward]

How come the green men never hold hands with the blue men?

Re:What I'd like to know...

[Anonymous Coward]

The green men use KDE, and the blue men use GNOME. The yellow men use WindowMaker.

Linus?!?

[Anonymous Coward]

Which penguin is Linus???

Good freaking Lord!

[Otter]

OK, the next time someone spouts off about "Joe Sixpack", "marketdroids" or "lusers", keep this helpful bit of highly technical documentation in mind:

A diagram explaining how Linux code is written by humans, approved by two layers of penguins (one with a briefcase) and then passed on to human users.

What is the target audience supposed to do, go to their legal division and say, "No, there's no problem with Linux! See this explanatory document? All code is approved by a penguin. And yes, the GIMP is a perfectly suitable professional replacement for Photoshop. Notice the beautiful use of the select and fill tools?"

Am I the only one who thinks this diagram looks like an outtake from a Troy McClure film? "Mr. McClure, SCO says Linus stole their code!" "Not true, Timmy! As this diagram indicates, all code in Linux is approved by two levels of penguins!"

Re:Good freaking Lord!

[Malcontent]

"What is the target audience supposed to do"

The target audience are CIOs. This is a perfectly good chart for CIOs except of course for the fact that's it's not written in powerpoint.

Note to people who make charts for CIOs: You must make liberal use of RED and YELLOW in your diagrams. If your charts do not contain red or yellow your products probably suck real bad. Also make sure all lines are large and bold it's hard to see dotted lines on your palm pilot when you are out on the golf course.

Re:Good freaking Lord!

[Otter]

In fact, that probably _is_ the logic, fighting stupid with stupid. I'm just wondering if it's maybe targeting a little too low -- press releases are one thing, but a cartoon penguin with a magnifying glass may be seen as insufficient legal advice.

Still, Malcontent is right. You need to send this out as a 3 meg .ppt file (ideally with each round of penguins or humans sliding in from the side with a car crash noise) if you expect your technology to be taken seriously.

Re:Education is great and all...

[Telex4]

...but do we really expect management, who has no idea about technology and IP rights to be swayed by a pretty poster vs. massive lawsuits that they hear about on the morning news?

But... but... look at the arrows! There's a flow between me, the market, a funny fat penguin and even some big magnifying glasses! Now I just need a seminar to learn what it all means!

Re:Slashdotted?!?

[mabhatter654]

That's OK. We're among friends...or at least they could have posted the image on slashdot's own [i.e. their own] servers...

or did we slashdotters just slashdot slashdot's parent by posting the link on slashdot's front page?

gotta see how many times I can say it in one sentence!

Son of Tsarkon Reports - What the ???

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anyone else find this disturbing?
OSDL (comprised of arguably some of the best minds in the industry) have a strategy whereby they release a jpeg image !?!

Re:Son of Tsarkon Reports - What the ???

[Brandybuck]

Well, it's still better than the SCO strategy, which is feed Darl McBride beans, point a microphone at his butt, and call it a press release.

Why do I have this horrible feeling...

[Trolling4Dollars]

...that someone with WAY too much time on their hands is going to take this and animate it to do something obscene in Flash or something?

Re:I'm liking it.

[Anonymous Coward]

May as well just put up a sign that has the word "CHICKS" inside of a circle with a slash through it... Same effect...

it's simple

[bhny]

I think I've figured it out. The source code talks to the penguins and the little penguins hand the source code to the contributors and the fat penguins compile the source code and give it to the market place and somehow the market place gives the code back again

whoever did that flow chart is insane

Re:Greatest poster ever!

[theGreater]

Correction: Greatest WALLPAPER ever. I'll download and it and reuse it under their lenient licensing and fair use doctrine.

-theGreater Advantage.

I don't think I would pay $699

[kjj]

to dunk Darl, but $6.99 would definitely be worth it.

You can't spell SCOundrel without SCO

[B0mbtruck]

You can't spell SCOundrel without SCO

Come on, we all new it from the start !!!

Yeah that helps

[blanks]

"So far managers and developers around the world are supposed to boost their confidence in Linux with the help of this little poster, which explains the kernel development process." "

Yeah and the food pyramid poster I have helps remind me that the beer and junk food I eat and drink are going to kill me.

Time for another beer.

Development Penguin on drugs?

[denks]

Is it just me, or does Development Penguin look drunk or on drugs? Especially with that flask next to him. As the 2.6 development kernel is named Detox Beaver or something similar, does this tell us something about the kernel developers??