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"Enemies of Linux" Trying to Undermine OS?
Pinawella writes "It's reported on VNUnet that 'Enemies of Linux' are trying to undermine the OS with a campaign of disinformation. It's based on an interview with an exec from the Open Source Development Labs, but who are these enemies?"
The enemy of my friend is my enemy's friend, or my friend's enemies are my friend's friends... Um, is this gonna be on the test?
So who are these mysterious enemies of Linux?
Is it Mr. White of 42 Evergreen Terrace?
Perhaps the little old lady who lives across the road?
Or, almost inconceivably, the vicar's wife, Mrs. Candor?
Or, just perhaps, is this a thinly veiled attack against Microsoft?
Could it just be more FUD?
"They say that too many patches and we are not secure, or not enough patches and we are not addressing security well enough, but the arguments begin to sound specious."
What OS are they talking about? Sounds like my complaints with MS.
Three men walk into a bar. They all got concussions.
doesn't make them enemies.
Just very very very hostile.
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Don't make your enemies happy.
Make up with your lover,
who's greedy to be back
in your good graces.
Daughter,
because you've taken anger to extremes,
you won't amount
to a hill of beans.
-Hla Stavhana
Let us not make a hill of beans for our enemies!
"Pinawella writes "It's reported on VNUnet that 'Enemies of Linux' are trying to undermine the OS with a campaign of disinformation."
Well that's a new tactic...
The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
Why the BSD people of course. Everyone knows the BSD triangle of NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are out to get Linux. BSD stands for BKill SDamn DPenguin. What other free OS is there that could feel threatened?
Someone you trust is one of us.
http://www.antarcticconnection.com/antarctic/wildl ife/penguins/index.shtml
Sheesh slashdot editors, at least do a simple google search first!
This is management speaking, please report to my office.
Nelson Pratt, marketing director of the pro-Linux organisation, which boasts Linus Torvalds among its top brass, said that unnamed vendors are trying to scare firms with a campaign claiming that Linux is inadequately supported for enterprise use.
Did anyone else picture Nelson Pratt coughing "MICROSOFT!" right after saying "unnamed vendor"?
I'm a big tall mofo.
Who are the enemies
Just to the right of where the article says ,"So-called "enemies of Linux" are conducting a systematic campaign of disinformation which aims to undermine the enterprise credibility of the open source operating system", I see an add for MS's Get the Facts campaign. Hmmmm.
How the hell is StarBucks an enemy of Linux?
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* Star
$ Bucks
must be their new Latte's Against Linux program
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"Enemies of Linux"?
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"They say that too many patches and we are not secure"
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"unnamed vendors are trying to scare firms"
Sounds like the tinfoil under his beanie may have become dislodged, and is allowing the CIA's paranoia rays to get into his mind!John
SCO insn't an "enemy", it's the plucky comic relief...
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." ~The Honorable Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Okay here are my guesses.
C64 (The reason I am saying this, though it may seem an unusual guess is pretty simple. This weekend I bought a joystiq with a plug that goes into the tv. When you wiggle the joystiq back and fourth it boots up into the Commodore 64. Pretty strange behavior FROM A CHILDREN'S TOY! Suspicious what me? Commodore come back is secretly on the way.)
Okay, I am fairly confident in my choice so I will stick with one guess. With the second guess I would like to point out that there are some people who don't enjoy using Linux because it is difficult to manipulate files with it. These people like to use graphical user interfaces and get really angry if they have to do otherwise. They also like only one graphical user interface and so having to choose between gnome and kde is not an option!
These people are very highly organized and sometimes they carry bags around with bricks and brick bats in them. They use these devices to destroy linux servers, if it is convenient. Often these people avoid the light and end up in jail so there has not been much coverage of them.
Could these be the people spreading the information? Or mis information? It is a possibility. They are known liars and hate users of vi so much that they add the letter "deo" to random words to make them more compliant with the graphical user interface. Also, they are not afraid of mice as are some women, effeminate men, and non-effeminate men but instead embrace them like disgusting vampires! I have often seen them biting one button of a two button mouse so that it would be easier to manipulate!
A lot of the linux people are completely out of their tree when the topic of conversation drifts to their OS of choice. That's not something Microsoft did to them, that's who they decided to be.
I'm not even saying they're a majority, but there are a lot of Wahabi Linusists, and if they had the social skills to get along with each other, some of them would be blowing things up.
Or even "friends with benefits," seeing how those companies are in bed with Linux to some extent or another. That chubby penguin gets around. ;)
And you thought it was Microsoft... the REAL enemies are the people that make AmigaOS, who want to supplant Linux as the go-to OS for anti-Microsoft people.
Warning! Poster with tinfoil hat too tight.
Stage #5: ???
Stage #6: Profit!!!
They'll all start posting comments soon. They're regulars here. :)
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