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Linux: Fighting the FUD of Forking

Posted by Hemos on from the power-to-the-people dept.

sebFlyte writes "Fighting the MS FUD machine is a full time job for some open source developers, especially now Microsoft have thrown in the issue of the possibility of Linux forking (as Unix did)... it would also seem that Gates has moved on from telling people to 'get the facts' and creating FUD around patents and IP to criticising the open source communty's ability to create interoperable software."

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  1. firsties. by irc.goatse.cx+troll · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Am I the only one that sees the "Nothing for you to see here, move along" and abuses it for firsties?

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  2. Re:Linux Forking is inevitable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Actually kernel is spelt with an 'e' not an 'a'...

  3. Re:Microsoft and Interoperability ? by Alan+Partridge · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your sig is phrased very poorly.

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  4. Re:Linux Forking is inevitable by Dagny+Taggert · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thanks...as you can tell, I have a problem with "A" and "E".

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  5. Re:Linux forked a long time ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Insightful?
    Did the moderator even follow the link?
    If anything this is Funny. Its OT from the article but funny on the pun of fork.
    Slashdot needs a moderator training school for the inept moderator.

  6. Re:Microsoft and Interoperability ? by Daengbo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It was kind of intentional...;) Who is "either of us?"

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  7. Re:Microsoft and Interoperability ? by apdt · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Actually it should be:

    My president may be an idiot, but anyone who believes that that makes me one is one moreso than either of us.

    </grammar pedant>

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