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2006 Software War Map between FOSS and Microsoft
Ant writes "Neatorama mentions Steven Hilton's Software War Map that depicts "the epic struggle of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) against the Empire of Microsoft. It was updated in 2006."
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Isn't it a bit early to feature this on Slashdot?
It'll start shooting itself ... killing other MS Apps ... Awesome!
Where's Kamchatka?
Is this supposed to be news? Funny? Interesting? Engaging? If I create one and put a picture of Stallman in saint drag humping a penguin will Slashdot publish it for me?
Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo
Completely surrounded will Microsoft discover another _dark_ way of winning everything or is the giant starting to feel the weight of time as some current moves in its staff shown ....
It's not your fault that you're always wrong The weak ones are there to justify the strong
I love how the /. crowd needs a Wikipedia link to remind us what Free and Open Source Software is. We'd all be in the dark without that!
Remember, open source is free as in speech, not free as in bear.
That was my thought, too. Maybe they can show MS forces overrunning the SGI position for propoganda purposes;-) "OMG, just look at what those beasts are doing to that poor innocent Code!"
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
s/ReactOS/WINE/g
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
... smells like victory."
(apologies to Robert Duvall & Francis Ford Coppela)
I love that this is presented as a serious piece of news!
No... actually it was posted on Slashdot
Linux seems neat. Conventions like Penguincon support it. Those in the "Know" know it's better. Still, other OS's dominate. Until someone finally argues their point with the undeniable logic of guns and explosives (because guns and explosives trum everything. Duh). Now it's an OS battle in the street and Linux has a penguin's chance in Hell of surviving.
Until YOU arrive on the scene. Sure, you'd rather have the OS wars conducted peacefully via Blogs, one user at a time. But someone just took a shot at you from the iPod-controlled building across the street. And that nice bald guy in suspenders just handed you a loaded missile launcher. Screw logic. This thang is ON!
Taken from the Sluggy Freelance Grand Auto Theft Shirt
If this signature is witty enough, maybe somebody will like me.
Any gains by the lunatic fringe are negated by the loss of net neutrality and also by the gains in the prevelance of DRM, "trusted computing" and Patent legislation.
FACT: OSS is doomed. For all practical intents and purposes, OSS is Dead.
Is it bad that that map reminds me of the last mission of Starcraft: Brood War? I mean, you play as the Zerg and start in the middle completely surrounded, and have to wipe out all of your opponents. Does that make Microsoft the Zerg? Bill Gates would be Kerrigan?!!?!
Well....the Zerg infest, assimilate, overpower, and outnumber their opponents, and are led by a single all-powerful Overmind bent on galactic domination. That sounds like Microsoft to me.
"You will pay for your lack of vision..." - Emperor Palpatine to Ray Charles
Facts:
1.) Vista is an operating system.
2.) Vista fights ALL the time.
3.) The purpose of Vista is to flip out and kill people.
Vista can kill anyone it wants! Vista cuts off heads ALL the time and doesn't even think twice about it. This thing is so crazy and awesome that it flips out ALL the time. I heard that Vista was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon Vista killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw Vista totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.
"Sufferin' succotash."
Dude, I heard Vista killed Chuck Norris - with a roundhouse kick!
Ce n'est pas un vrai mouvement de robot!
Will The Empire strike back?
"Without deviation from the norm, 'progress' is not possible." - Frank Zappa
Maybe it's just my imagination or psyche doing this:
All the OS software has those friendly icons. Tux smiles, the GNU gnu smiles, the mozilla dragon smiles, heck even the SuSE animal smiles.
The Closed source software, doesn't want to have anything to do with animals. The Windows "flag" looks kinda like a torn battleflag, the SCO tree looks like you have been drinking for a while and then looked at the tree, passport looks like it wants to invade your wallet. That's just what I noticed...
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[The General stands before a large electronic wall display talking to the rebel fighers]
General: "The battle station is heavily shielded and carries a firepower greater than half the fleet. It's defenses are designed around a direct large-scale assault. A small one-man coder should be able to penetrate the outer defense."
Code Leader: [stands up to ask question] "Pardon me for asking, sir, but what good are programmers going to be against that?"
General: "Well, the Empire doesn't consider small one-man coders to be any threat, or they'd have a tighter defense. An analysis of the plans provided by Steven Hilton has demonstrated a weakness in the station."
General: [Tux makes penguin sounds. The computer display starts as the General keeps talking] "The approach will not be easy. You are required to maneuver your packets straight down this trench and skim the surface to this point. The target area is only two kilobytes wide. It's a UDP port, right below the TCP port. The shaft leads directly to the RPC. A precise hit will start a chain reaction which should destroy the station."
General: [a murmer of disbelief runs through the room] "Only a precise hit will set up a chain reaction. The shaft is Firewalled, so you'll have to be l33t."
I believe those are called Emperor Gnus.