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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.
the world is flat and president Bush is a Mensa card holder.
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for blackening the name of the one Frenchman who doesn't suck
I say NI to you! Your mother was a hamster, and your father smells of elderberries. Fetchez la vache. FETCHEZ LA VACHE!
-- A. de Toqueville, addressing the silly Linux knnnn-iggits
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Oh, and terrorism works better because of open source, and the "Star Wars" program was a good idea
Any chance we can keep the pointless blathering out of the article descriptions? This article has Nothing to do with the Star Wars program (which isn't the same missle defense program we have now). If any article was submitted with similar bias to the right, I'm sure it would be rejected. I come here for "News for nerds" not "News for Nerds with communist leanings". Thx.
Cool, then France has the advantage of 1 person over America. All Americans suck - cold donkey balls, that is.
YES
Who's your daddy?
knit caps? in dutch, it's a jockstrap...
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
--Sheikh Abd-Al-Kadir, 1587
Who's your Daddy?
Save your political ideas for your circle of friends. This is terrible journalism.
i prefer mine warm
Bastard Son Of Death?
In Soviet Russia, Darth Vader's father is YOU!
Esp about Star Wars. It's well known that SDI wasn't a serious program, but a big straw man program that scared the Soviets into building up their own program, resulting in the bankruptcy of the Eastern Block. SDI was the decisive event in winning the Cold War.
Al Gore is!
Linus is actually the father of Windows! Too sad ...
That article made me dumber.
You Sir are the perfect example of why the Slashdot subscription is considered an idiot's tax by most everybody (but subscribers): why would anybody pay to post such idiocies and be rightfully modded down, when they can do it for free?
You're also the proof that old-timers on Slashdot can be just as stupid as late-model 77x.xxx Slashdroids, only slightly older and with a bigger beer belly.
Your poor grammar screams out like the boil on a frog's arse.
We can't trust them, they sound a bit... French.
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Sorry but everybody knows that Al Gore is the real father of open source.
All your code are belong to us !
-- Darl Mc Bride
Worst attempt at trolling ever.
he had used a modified apt-get to "install packages of anti-Perens propaganda on the Debian mailing list server", and quoting "the superior ability of apt-get to deal with flamebait and troll dependencies over our own RPM tool".
Great stuff guy.
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
Dear moderators:
The parent is not off-topic, it is sarcasm that is directly related to the story.
Please turn off Dr. Phill or whatever and pay attention to what you're doing.
Thank you,
--J(K) DOS is like Unix in exactly the same way that a pinto is like an aircraft carrier.
That's not funny, that's true. In many states, once the paternity is established, there is no way to revoke it (for instance, California gives you two years to dispute, after that you are screwed -- assuming you are even aware that someone has named you as a father). It doesn't matter at all if you really aren't the father. The States don't care and, apparently, feminists don't either.
And the most unfortunate aspect is that to be named as the father of a baby, in most cases, all the mother has to do is say that so and so is the father. I am forced to wonder if a named father could file fraud charges against the mother for naming him when he was not in fact the father... might not get you removed, but could teach an effective lesson.
Why would the feminists care? Feminists complain about the possibility of a father 'hijacking' a woman's body for 9 months if the father wants the mother to carry a baby to term rather then aborting it... and yet they have no problem with 'hijacking' a man's wallet and life for 18+ years should she want to keep it and he not.
Father's right is a very poorly understood area of law, and an even less fought for one.
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
> The government can throw me in Guantanamo Bay, but that's different).
No they can't, so stop with with the FUD or lose any right to criticize these asshats.
The only way to get a ticket to Gitmo is to be a non-US citizen captured by US forces in combat with a non-government force. Although personally I believe the Taliban were functioning as a government in every real sense of the word and Al Queda forces in Afganistan were obviously allied under that government so refusing POW status to them was a bad idea and set a bad precedent. But that is a totally different argument. (It is a rational one for starters, as opposed to the primal ranting from the typical slashdotter wearing a tinfoil hat.)
Democrat delenda est
Is English a second language for you? That may explain your confusion.
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