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OSDL Answers SCO With Kernel Awareness Campaign

Posted by timothy on from the workplace-sensitivity dept.

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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  1. kernel smernel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now why would kernel development impress decision makers? They think in terms of support, reliability, standardisation, following market trends, etc. Geek terminology only alienates managers.

  2. Article by Scholasticus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No comment about the poster - it speaks for itself - but the article on internetnews was really quite good. It looks like OSDL is making a concerted effort to explain the kernel development process in such a way to factually counter SCO's claims. Peer review isn't perfect, but it is a very powerful tool for oversight of a project such as software development. With the information from internetnews it should now be possible for people who were otherwise in doubt to see how unlikely it is that "one million lines" of SCO-owned code could make it into the Linux kernel.

  3. Re:Sorry... by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 3, Interesting
    At university I wrote a lot of comments that were very BS because we had a quota of comments/lines to meet. You probably would get bad grades for submitting Linux code, but Linux is about making a good OS - not about trying to get good grades.

    Yes, in places the Linux code is under commented. The code is, IMHO, structured in a way that in makes the meaning obvious in most cases and the code easy to read. This is far more important than comments. Comments do not make good code.

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  4. Re:In wonder by Laplace · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There is a Linux girl. Apparently she runs Linux on an iBook.

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  5. Re:Business model of OSDL by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You jest, but if you want to convince managers, I have one word for you: Powerpoint!

    Managers understand 2 things. Short lists of bullet points, and diagrams. Anything over 2 pages is too much info for them.

    And no, they're not too dumb to absorb any more information than that, they simply don't have the time.

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