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Yankee Group Slams Linux 'Extremists'

Posted by Zonk on from the ya-hippies dept.

AvatarofVirgo wrote in to mention an article running on ZDNet in which the consulting firm The Yankee Group goes after folks in the Linux community who have been questioning their objectivity. From the article: "Laura DiDio, an analyst at the Yankee Group who has been at the receiving end of much of the criticism from Linux advocates, claimed the radical elements of the community could damage the reputation of open source software."

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  1. Damaging reputation... by gmuslera · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... maybe she want to have the record on damaged reputation by own writings.

  2. Communique from CLIT by ktakki · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The Committee for the Liberation of Information Technology, also known as CLIT, released a communique on videotape today, broadcast simultaneously on Al-Jazeera and TechTV. This mysterious organization had claimed responsibility in the past for numerous acts of techno-terrorism, including the replacement of the install media in retail boxes of Windows XP with CDs of Ubuntu Linux and Free BSD, as well as the infamous Intel Pentium floating-point bug, the first known use of a weapon of math destruction.

    In an excerpt of the tape released to mainstream news media, the leader of CLIT stated the following:

    I AM MASTER OF THE CLIT! Remember this fucking face! Whenever you see CLIT, you see this fucking face! I make that shit work! No one rules a CLIT like me! Not this little fuck, none of you little fucks out there! I AM THE CLIT COMMANDER!

    A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security declined comment on the tape, stating that they were still trying to determine the authenticity of the communique, while an anonymous source at software giant Microsoft reportedly stated "See? See what I mean? They're nuts, I tells ya! Nuts!!".

    k.
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    1. Re:Communique from CLIT by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 0, Offtopic


      Heh, heh, reminds me of Zarqawi - whom nobody has ever seen and nobody can find even though he was sitting in one town for months (supposedly) - and who has the extraordinary ability to plan a dozen major operations at once with a handful of associates without once leaving a trail of resources.

      Otherwise known as the "boogey man".

      Supposedly in the employ of the OTHER "boogey man", bin Laden - who at least is known to have existed at one point - when he was working for the CIA.

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