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Linus Not The Father Of Linux, According to Report
MrIrwin writes "According to this article on Yahoo, Linus is not the real father of Linux and Open source software is really just code nicked from other sources. " Groklaw has done a dissection of the press release. It's a press release by the Alexis de Toqueville Institution, who gets funding from MSFT, as well as believes that US IT troubles are because of free software. Oh, and terrorism works better because of open source, and the "Star Wars" program was a good idea.
"No... I am your father!"
Thou shalt be excommunicated from the church of *nix!
-Imidazole2
Everybody knows that Cowboy Neal is the real father of open source. Come on, get with the times!
all the code originated from SCO ! we should thank darl for our OS...
"Oh, and terrorism works better because of open source, and the "Star Wars" program was a good idea."
Finally, a man I can agree with!
Yeah, and Gates is not the father of the BSOD.
Nothing disturbs me more than blind loyalism towards some unrealistic and over-idealistic notion of one's nationality.
Now it's installed on all my servers...
I have to know!!!
Who's my baby's daddy?!?!?!??
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
Isn't Darl McBride the true father of Linux? This is why he wants his $699. Effective immediately, Linux will be renamed to Darlsux.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
hmm, probably superman disguised himself as Bill Gates and did it. Thus it is so much better than this Open Source terrorist stuff that's called Linux.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
Linux : "He told me enough! He told me UCB lost the important court cases"
Darl Vader : "No Linux! I am your father. Search your feelings. You know this to be true"
...an organization named "de Toqueville" seriously. Toqueville? WTF? City of knit caps? Geddouddahere.
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Al Gore invented Linux, duh.
Are you an open source warrior?
... DNA tests are already on the way to contradict those pesky and false allegations... He surely must be the father
I fuse with Mercer every single day...
and I know because the version of "hello world" that's been shipping with Debian since 3.0 is virtually identicle to the one I slaved over five years ago. damn linux hippies...
*ducks*
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
> the "Star Wars" program was a good idea.
Just wait 20 years, we'll get Linux FUD Special Edition.
Yeah...based on the logic presented in that article, he is going to come to the conclusion that Linux was really the result of a gay marriage between Charles Babbage and Alan Turing.
This is almost as funny as that "5 year study" on the Total cost of ownership of Win2K vs Linux that was released in 2001.
I've dirtied my hands writing poetry, for the sake of seduction; that is, for the sake of a useful cause. --Dostoevsky
Do us all a favor. If you happen to have candid photos of the conception, do not post them here.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
and the "Star Wars" program was a good idea
...but not the "Christmas on Endor" version.
Ryosen
One man's "Troll, +1" is another man's "Insightful, +1".
As far as I can tell, the true father of Linux is in fact Al Gore. He invented it shortly after his fledgling idea of a net-inter caught on and became what we know now as the internet. It was originally called Alix, but had to be renamed due to copyright issues involving a book about wonderland....
"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away" -Tom Waits
Actually, the correct spelling would be "Tokeville," to reflect a key component of their research methodology For obvious reasons they didn't get that right either.
For your security, this post has been encrypted with ROT-13, twice.
M.
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OH, so I suppose this will tank my stock in Linux. :-P
OK, so first of all, wasn't the GNU project underway by the time Linux was written, thus making RMS much more of the "Father"?
In addition, according to the article: "Brown suggests the invention of Unix is an integral part of the Linux story," but isn't that the point of a Unix-like OS developed for the PC?
Oh, wait. I'm supposed to buy in to FUD tactics.
I wish I could write clever and witty sigs.
The only case I'm aware of terrorists using "software" as apart of their "plans" was the 911 pilots triaining on MS Flight Sim... wtf!?
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"we live in a post-ideological world..." - Billy Bragg.
Lunux was created by Xerox labs. Linus toured the labs, and memorized some key lines of code. In order to obfuscate the origin, he renamed it Linux, and released it under the GPL.
If his name is on the birth certificate he's still stuck paying regardless of what a paternity test might say.
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
punk. You wanna start something? I'll zap you before your punch gets to me.
And since Lemma 1.7 says "no communist is worth his own weight in dog excrement," it naturally follows that Linux must have originated elsewhere.
I propose one of the following:
I think you'll see the logic in all of this immediately.
After many interviews with astronauts and rocket scientists, I have determined that the moon is probably made of cheese.
I tell all in my soon-to-be-released book.
Find out how NASA lied!
Excerpts to be published on my website.
(Note: This is not a shameless self-promotion gimmick. It's not. Really.)
I can see the fat cats at the De 'Tokerville' institute, sitting around their conference table, thick smoke overloading the air ventilation system:
"Yeah - we can kill two birds with one stone: write a book to make more money for our 'institute'.."
"..I thought it was a 'foundation'..."
"Whatever..."
"...and throw out more FUD at the OS communists!!"
"BRILLIANT!!"
"Dude!! Are you goin' to Bogart that?"
Lodragan Draoidh
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. - Mark Twain
Seriously, do the fucking mods even read the posts?
Enter Bill Gates
[Darth Vader voice] Linux ... I am you father [/Darth Vader voice]
-- The Internet is a too slow way of doing things, you'd never do without it.
OSAMA BIN LADEN!
Thus, by using Linux, you're supporting the terrorists.
Everyone please report to the near Homeland detention center for "reprogramming".
* Fud
* I can't believe it's not fud
* Tofud (Fud for vegetarians)
I think this internet thing sounds like a good idea
Linus Torvalds should sue the author for libel and defamation of character
Linus is not Darl. He has a real kernel to maintain...
cpghost at Cordula's Web.
This is almost like saying Bill Gates didn't write MS DOS! ...oh wait...
He didn't.
Really, I know what I'm doing...Ohhhh, look at the shiny buttons!
By the same token, SDI was not created in a vacuum..
I thought the whole idea of SDI was for lasers to be created in a vacuum.
I'm guessing that wasn't on their radar screen...
I can see it now...
Jerry: And now the results of the DNA testing... Linus, you are... not the fater!
Linus: You slut! I knew it. F**k you! [throws his chair back and walks off the set]
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Lousy rotten karmic retribution.
Hasn't anybody seen the IBM ads? Unless of course Linus gave birth to an Albino son, there is no way that Linus is the father of Linux.
My Favourite Meme
No, no, it was just that Linus had really boring at school, so he hacked to the M$ network and stole this and related files from their labs, and put his name and street address under it.
.NET platform.
It should have become the kernel of their new, more advanced version of Windows, but as the code was leaked they decided to abandon it, blamed the leakage to its head developer and fired him - some guy called Stallman - and hired Cutler to his place.
This was a brief history of Windows NT and Linux, and an explanaition why Windows sucks and Linux rocks today. Stallman, on the other hand, felt pissed and took the lead of certain miserable and insignificant foundation called FSF, which developed viral licenses to communistic IP-dishonoring hippies, and later on claimed himself its founder.
By they way, I also heard recently that Linus' file in Finnish citizenship registry keeps magically getting erased at random times ever since the said registry was moved to run on
But now you have to excuse me, as I'm out of crack and my hands are shaking too badly.
“Wait for Hurd if you want something real” –Linus
Thanks for the info. Go Google..
--- The American Way of Life is not a birthright. Hell, it's not even sustainable.
yo.
They need to go to the Maury Povich show to find out who the real baby dady is!
some early-twenties geek with the writing level of an eleven year old.
One time I threw a brick at a duck.
Try to reduce the Linux community by litterally annoying their followers to death. Particularly the zealots will get issues if they have weak hearts (which most have since geeks don't exercise) while composing their forum posts. A very clever plan indeed...
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
>Linus is not the real father of Linux and Open >source software is really just code nicked from >other sources.
Bill G: Tux, I *am* your father.
Tux: Noooo!! (translated from Penguin)
Bill G: Search your flippers, you know it to be true.
I am not sure if terrorism works better because of open source, but that Nicholas Berg video appears to have been encoded in WMV format.
It's true. I saw an advanced screening of a Michael Moore film on the topic. However, you'll never see it. Disney is blocking its general release. Just fyi.
Come on.
We all know microsoft was a virgin birth.
Bow down and pray to the geek god gates!
Take not the name of microsoft in vain!
Worship no other gods before microsoft!
wake up and hold your nose
From the Groklaw review: "I'll tell you more soon, and I hope you will help us beat off the dark side's UNIX nonsense once and for all by contributing your knowledge and skills to that project, so we can prove where all the code came from and who owned it, making future "studies" like this one impossible."
:)
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If it's all the same, I'm with them in spirit but am going to take a pass on the call to beat off the dark side.
"Luke, I am your . . . ohhhhh, that's it, that's it, a little faster, ohhhhhhh . . .
"The bigger the lie, the more they believe." - Det. Bunk
Now that's an even more evil-sounding name than Cardinal de Richelieu, Marquis de Sade, Tomas de Torquemada or even Ming The Merciless. So the article must be wrong.
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
If you go to the adti ADTI Public Accomplishments page, (Can be found from the "mission" on the main page.) You get a return of
Not Found
The requested URL http:// was not found on this server.
Just wait until you see it on a Neon server. It'll be a glowing review!
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
I would frankly nail the libellous sons-of-bitches to the wall, profit or no.
I thing you meant libellous bastards.
That's the marketing-speak version of "Windows 98 Short-Bus Edition".
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
It couldn't have stood for "New Technology" since the Win2K startup screen says "Built on NT Technology". Would Microsoft really be stupid enough to make the startup screen read "Built on New Technology Technology"?
So it obviously stands for "Not Trustworthy".
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
This is sort of like saying one architect stole a building design from another because it has four sides and a roof.
Well, I claim that the entire article was stolen. Every word in it appears in several previously-published dictionaries. They should sue Mr Brown and the AdTI for copyright infringement.
(One problem might be discovering just which dictionaries they plagiarized. The dictionary publishers seem to have plagiarized from each other extensively, making it difficult to discover the real source of any particular word.)
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
Of course, what REALLY burns me is the line that says For almost thirty years, programmers have tried to build a Unix-like system and couldn't, somehow suggesting that UNIX is like the the tinfoil hat version of the pyramids of Egypt--some mysterious advanced technology that no one understands and couldn't possibly replicate.
Apparently BSD isn't written by programmers either.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
Alien puppet Linus swiped Linux from SCO, says balanced study.
... ;-)
Linus is an alien. He is a Finnish citizen currently residing in the United States.
(And take a look at the Finnish language. Talk about alien
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
YOU FORGOT THE LINK
Oh, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
According to The Microsoft Timeline (note: Flash animated):
"Using the Altair 8800, Bill Gates and Paul Allen develop the first programming language, and begin an extraordinary, history-making journey."
It looks like Bill and Paul were the proud parents of the a bouncing baby programming language, the first one ever!
OLPC Australia
It was actually called N-TEN-DO, which is why so many geeks still run windows calling it "wintendo". ;)
SCO: Slashdot never told you what happened to your father.
LINUX: They told me enough! They told me you killed him!
SCO: No, Linux. I am your father!
LINUX: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Wasn't that the mental condition were people have a compulsion to express themselves frequently and loudly with profanity?
You're FUCK thinking of FUCK Tourettes Syndrome
Dan.
Dual Xenon server? Talk about Vaporware!
"I was reffereing to the fact that Paul Allen and Bill Gates started Microsoft porting Basic interpreters from a "borrowed" open source base."
Why stop at that? Where Micro-Soft's original corporate home was is very intresting. The Sundowner Motel in Albuquerque. The Sundowner was a seedy little Motel that was widely used by drug dealers and Hookers for their business.
Microsoft was born in a Whore House! Dosen't that explain their Business ethics?
Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est
Asprin. When ever you get the urge to have sex, place one asprin between your knees and hold it there until the urge passes. Repeat as necessary.
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
Windows New Technology (WNT) is one letter off VMS just
like HAL is one letter off IBM...Interesting.
RJ
Q: How do you get a blonde to marry you?
A: Tell her she's pregnant.
Q: What's the first question she'll ask.
A: Is it mine?
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
Oral sex?
Of course, that might fuck up your lipstick, but ain't it worth it....
What's wrong with condoms? Get some without spermicide. Couple that with the 'rythem method.'
Find a guy who's willing to cope and if he's not, ditch him.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
Son, unless you want to pay for a kid, keep it in your pants.
Now why would you want to keep a kid in your pants?
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
Britney Spears as the father? That's going to take a *lot* of convincing...or a mean bit of surgery.
That is absolutely appaling and unbelievable, even from Microsoft.
I'm not reffering to the claim that they invented the first programming langauage. I'm not even reffering to their attempt to take credit for the explosion of the internet, or any of the other absurd "history". That junk is almost expected.
No, I'm reffering to the use of YELLOW TEXT on a WHITE BACKGROUND in the "Early 90's" segment. We all know Microsoft lies. We all know Microsoft violates the law as standard operating practice. Yada yada yada. But yellow text on a white background?!? That's a new low even for Microsoft. Someone needs to do some serious prison time.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.