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Fathers of Linux Revealed: Tooth Fairy & Santa Claus
An anonymous reader writes "The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute, which published the results of their very thorough investigation today, turned out to be right. Linus really isn't the father of the Linux operating system. After having been found out, Linus had no choice but to admit -- this is what he has to say: 'Ok, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.'"
I gnu it!
Heh heh heh
This just in:
SCO Claims they created Linux and sues itself. Happy day.
who else would give away free software?
not too sure about the tooth fairy...his prices are kinda steep...
because we have a microsoft and SCO section, a comdey section would be redundant.
No more Micro$oft bashing from me. Its like bashing at the special olympics.
It's a good thing Linus has a sense of humor. He might smite them down.
# ftp ftp.sco.com
20 ProFTPD 0.0.1 Server
Name (sco:admin): anonymous
331 Anonymous login ok, send your complete email address as your password.
Password:
ftp> prompt
Interactive mode off.
ftp> mget *
Linus copied his code from Santa ... ... slashdot ...
Slashdot copied their story from
I thought the real father was Darth McBride.
:-)
"Linux, I am your father!"
It was a really good paper.
At last some proper justice meated out of this Linus wannabe programmer poser guy. The Tocqueville Institute is right to expose such frauds, being funded my Microsoft who, as we all know, is the true father of MS-DOS...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
"OK. How come Slashdot doesn't have a comedy section? "
Because if it did, this story would have been rejected.
"Derp de derp."
Shouldn't the tooth fairy be a mother? :/
At the Tocqueville Institution site here, try clicking accomplishments. ;)
I think it's too far away down the page that anyone would notice it, when the editors just give it an "Update".. but hey, with a fresh article we can now comment about Linus's great statement.
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
I can deal with Linus not being the father of Linux, but what I can't deal with is the tooth fairy being a guy! Now I'm picturing a hairy-legged fairy dressed like a ballerina reaching under my pillow. The horrors!
Have you *EVER* seen santa claus AND linus in the same room at the same time??? I thought so...
How long has it been a serious news source?
And if you thought that was boring you obviously havn't read my Journal ;-)
While a formal statement is being prepared, please allow me to express my outrage and personal dismay at the coninuing lies about the origins of the "Linux" operating system. It took many arduous years of skillful coding and deliberate system design for my employer to create what has been stolen from him. In the interest of the public good, he has continued, against my best advice, to allow the bastardization of his avocation to be coninually distributed without compensation or even recognition.
But now, as Linus Torvalds insists on further disregard of the truth, my employer has become enraged and will soon begin legal action to claim his rightful place as the creater of "Linux", originally and forever known to his friends, employees, and supporters as Bunix.
Sincerely,
Bun E. Sue
Chief Counsel
Easter Bunny Inc.
....tux reveals that he is the tooth fairy and Santa Claus is his father.
And if you thought that was boring you obviously havn't read my Journal ;-)
To the tune of Oh Christmans tree:
Oh Tannenbaum, Oh Tannenbaum
I stole your O/S named Minix
Oh Tannenbaum, Oh Tannenbaum
I stole your O/S named Minix
:
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For the toothfairy, I neither confirm nor deny this allegation that Linux has anything to do with Teeth-R-Us. Linus has received money from our organization, but only in payment for appropriate dental material. We do have information that kermit the frog has susppect connections, however.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Linus not only believes in the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus. He has a better sense of humor than 90% of the people in the entire computer industry.
Professional Politicians are not the solution, they ARE the problem.
Santa told me he loved only me. That cheating bastard!
A careful philosopher. That would be one with the spikey iron things connected to the copper wire into the ground devices on his roof, yes? ;)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
It's long been known that the Tooth Farie is a drag queen. Santa and Toothy got married today in Boston.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
"Okay, I get it. I have bad teeth."
Okay, so follow me on this one...
If you rearrange the letters in, "Santa", you get, "SATAN".
Satan is a demon.
BSD has a daemon as a mascot.
So... The Daemon made him do it!
Ohhhhh! That sucked.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
Alexis de Tocqueville admitted to be the easter bunny
"At first I didn't believe it myself, but when I started humping around during easter, I knew I had to be. Besides that, I'm actually quite releaved that the news is out and I don't have to keep it to myself anymore", Alexis commented.
sig(h)
RMS: It isn't Linux. It's the GNU System.
AdTI: OMG! Linus didn't write Linux!
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
Is "Toqueville" pernounced "TokeVille"?
I'm guessing it's the same mods who mod up something pro-IP for example. Bring out a poll, and the vast majority here are not religious.
-I am an elective eunuch.
And if more people subscribed to true atheism, we could talk more about the soccer game and quit killing each other over mosks, synagogues, churches and the almighty Sacred Cow!
Sacred Cows make the best hamburgers.
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
...the other 364 days of the year.
Olds not the father of the automobile!
#include <disclaimer.h>
Tonight the Lutefisk Fairy will come and leave lutefisk under your pillow.
You are right, and I obviously did not mean to smear you all with the big brush.
BTW I love your work on American Idol (Just kiddingSave a Life. Donate Blood. Please.
What Is an agnostic?
There's only one real way of explaining it well...
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
Washington, DC (FantasyNews) May 17th, 2004 - The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute reported today that Linus Torvalds, the public relations spokesman for the Linux operating system that was invented by Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, misled the public when he revealed the actual provenance of Linux.
"He can't be believed or trusted," said Ken Brown, head of the institute. "He says he has good teeth, yet the truth of the matter is that he has a mouth full of cavities. This is entirely consistent with the lies and fabrications this man has put forth since claiming he wrote Linux."
You don't use science to show that you're right, you use science to become right.
see http://www.santaclaus.com/faq.html#Linux
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
just cos he's got a beard doesn't give Linus any reason to call RMS "Santa".
FreeBSD for the impatient.
The former Iraqi Information Minister has been spotted in New Hampshire, where he is believed to be working for a large corporate enterprise.
According to our translator, he said "I believe Alexis de Tocqueville to have been one of the greatest Iraqis in history, and it is an honour to be serving his esteemed foundation. I believe this role to be the pinnacle of my professional career to date, even exceeding my colonisation of Mars in 1994"
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# ftp ftp.sco.com
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The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute should be renamed to the Elmer FUD Institute.
Sorry, that was bad.
Where does the easter bunny get its eggs?
It depends on what conclusion you draw.
"I think there probably is a unicorn, though we can't see it." - unicornist
"I'm not sure if there is a unicorn, since it might be hidden." - unicorn-agnostic
"I think there aren't any unicorns, otherwise we would have seen one." weak-unicorn-atheist
"It's impossible for something to exist and be absolutely undetectable, so unicorns are a logical impossibility."[*] strong-unicorn-atheist
([*] i'm not necessarily making this argument; it's just an example)
A careful analysis of the study reveals that it was not authored by the The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute, but actually cobbled together using words stolen from the English language.
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Well, there are a lot of "mods" with interesting lifestyle choices.
Check section "Santa Letter Writing Program" at: http://www.postescanada.ca/corporate/about/jobs/tr aditions-e.asp
Even the german post acknowledge this, Canada being the direct link to the North Pole. :)
Remember the year 2000? They promised us flying cars. They delivered the PT Cruiser...
You're starting out by assuming the thing you mean to prove or support.
The reason it doesn't work is that you are mistaking burden of proof.
Tell you what. How about you go look up "axiom".
Did someone say "intellectually lazy"?
Toronto-area transit rider? Rate your ride.
We're forgetting that Al Gore took the initiative in creating Linux.
Take off every Sig. For great justice.
Absolutely. They're more like the foaming-mouthed radicals of the wrong.
Fred
"A fool and his freedom are soon parted"
-RMS
Shouldn't the tooth fairy be Linux's mother?
Unless he's a real fairy. Never mind.
Asim
--
Plants versus Animals
> Those that claim there are deities have the burden
> of proof, just as if they had claimed there are
> tiny teapots orbiting our sun.
There are tiny teapots orbiting our sun. I've got one right here.
OK OK, I admit it : I wrote the Linux kernel.
Santa Claus
This is yet another day which makes me think that there are magical elves who follow me around purely to mod me up.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." -- Hanlon's Razor