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Open Source Dress for Success University Opens

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the learn-to-dress dept.

Roblimo writes "Linus Torvalds and his bosses at OSDL have finally realized that the biggest problem getting businesses to adopt GNU/Linux is that most FOSS programmers wear sandals and have ponytails. They've teamed up to offer style tips for the IT set. NewsForge Reports on comments from OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen, saying that if OSDSU works as planned, the open source community 'can be as successful at delivering new products, bug-free and on time, as Microsoft is doing with Vista.'" NewsForge is part of the OSTG family, along with Slashdot.

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  1. Isn't there a TV show? by Kelson · · Score: 3, Funny

    "MBA Eye for the OSS Guy," or something like that?

  2. They are overlooking the biggest roadblock! by linguizic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The biggest roadblock to adoption of linux isn't sandles and ponytails, it's soap and deoderant!! You can get away with long hair and sandals, just as long as you don't smell. I know that's what's keeping me from leaving my house right now.

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  3. Open Source Clothing? by Paulo's+News · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't mean to be negative at all, I'm just concerned: If the OSDSU starts pushing people to wear Open Source clothing, is this necessarily a good thing? Sure, most of the garments are free and made with good karma, but the care tags are a foot long, the weaving on one sleeve is twice as think as the weaving on the other, and the inside of the watch pocket says "/* Mr T ate your mom's balls */"

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  4. Re:gay/straight tags by cnettel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I did nothing earlier today when all posts were "gay". I didn't find it especially funny, but overall, I didn't care. When obviously enough people find reason to tag it as straight AS WELL, it just gets pointless. Of course, we can find that funny as well, and then we can tag along and tag with any word we find in the dictionary, but the tagging might after all be used for searching later on, and a total polluting of everything based on the April 1st posts is, well, not needed.

  5. Re:Apr 1 by prodangle · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Ok, joke is old. Enough is enough. I think we all are getting tired of the "OMG PONIES" crap now. It was funny the first 100 times, now it's just stupid. Switch the site back and freaking move on already... sheesh.
    haha, leave it. earlier I was feeling a bit grumpy about slashdot wasting an entire day on 1/4 stories, but now I've lightened up! It's funny! Let's be honest about this - Slashdot has never been a serious news site. It's a blog, where you can often find little gems, but you have to wade through some mud to get there. Similarly no-one reads /. as a journal - it's somewhere to go to waste some time. And today I've been able to waste more time than usual!

    Good going Taco - keep it up, and don't listen to the winging grumpy gits! :)