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Five Things You Can't Discuss about Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-what-if-i-wanna dept.

gondwannabe writes "Here are Five Things You Aren't Allowed to Discuss About Linux. With considerable chutzpa, an insightful Rob Enderle takes on what he considers five dogmas in the OSS community and explains why they're wrong. Examples: Linux is secure, "communes" actually work in the long haul, and that Linux is "pro-developer."

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  1. Re:blog == article? by Zephiria · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And mostly I'd be happy if linux nuts would shut their gobs and not preach about its benefits all the damn time.

  2. Mods pls delete the flame bait by oldgeezer1954 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This entire article is nothing but flame bait, written by a hack-for-hire who promotes his service of writing any opinion for a fee.

    While saying these are things he can't discuss he goes ahead and discusses them. By the end of the article (I'm going by the copy pasted here since the original site is not responsive at the moment so I am assuming it's complete and accurate copy of the original) he has not presented one iota of evidence of any time he's been prevented from discussing these issues.

    This article isn't worthy of being posted except for it's humour and flame bait value.

  3. Re:Some of this is just wacky by raddan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    As for being developer friendly...When I can install windows and have it come with compilers and libraries for half a dozen different programming languages, then we'll talk about "developer friendliness". Fedora recently started bundling Tomcat with their distros as an installable option...Anyone who has ever installed Tomcat knows how valuable that is. Not to mention that when a simple program breaks in some mysterious way, on Windows, I can't even look at the fucking libraries that come with the compiler that I paid for, because they're binaries! We just have to take their word that their documentation is correct. Why obfuscate it? It's a fucking C library! Obviously, thanks to GCC, this particular difficulty does not exist on any of the Free operating systems I develop for.
  4. Re:ARTICLE TEXT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think you just proved his point for him. Woe betide anyone that expresses an opinion that differs from yours.

  5. Re:ARTICLE TEXT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wow. Just... wow.

    1. Is Linux a myth? No, Linux isn't a myth. It's a kernel. GNU is an OS. Mandriva is a distro. Still confused, Rob?

    "When we compare an operating system to another we should be comparing the specific distribution, which is a thing."

    So why do you say "Windows" when there are five different versions of Vista, three different versions of XP, Windows 2000, and how many Windows 98s were there? And many folks still run 98!

    2. Is Linux secure?Yes, Linux is secure - at least, compared to Windows it is. There are no Linux viruses, there is no Linux spyware. Can Linux be chracked? Of course it can. But it's a hell of a lot harder to break into than the OS the FA shills for. As to Mac, I don't know if it's more or less secure than Linux, but compared to Windows a cardboard box is secure.

    "We know that crooks generally are crooks because they didn't do well in school, not because they graduated from the top of their class"

    You mean, like this guy?

    3. Do Communes Work? They can and have. What a troll! "Let's take the GPL; this is like watching a government working." Are you talking about New Orleans, LA's government or Springfield, IL's government? In the former, government didn't work at all. In the latter, government worked, and worked well. (erm, I'm going to have to edit that item on Springfield's tornados tonight, it has some glaring inaccuracies).

    4. Is Linux Pro-Developer, or Pro-You? Well, is Windows pro-developer, or pro-you? What a stupid question! If you're pro-developer you're automatically pro-user. Then he ignores his own question and gives the same old tripe about how nobody can make any money off of linux, completely ignoring the fact that IBM, Sun, and quite a few other companies EMPLOY lots of developers to work on Linux.

    5. Is Linux is "Open"? Is the Pope Catholic? Does a bear shit in the woods? Do you get source code with it? "How can anything be 'Open' if honest discussion isn't allowed?" How can you say discussion isn't allowed when you're in the middle of flaming it in a troll post? Look, if you flame Windows on slashdot, you get modded down as fast or faster than if you flame Apple or Linux. That job he was pushed out of? Hmm, I don't know the particulars but I'm guessing it had something to do with the quality of his work.

    I'll bet this guy's a rabid Bush supporter who thinks there were WMDs in Iraq and that Iraq had something to do with 9-11.

  6. Linux users call this guy a troll... by petrus4 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...but not because he actually is one. It's more primarily because he's saying things that you don't want to hear.

    A lot of Linux users demonstrably are Communist. You can deny it for as long as you like, but I see overwhelming evidence for it here all the time.

    I will admit that I've never understood why so many Linux users seem to insist on staying in the closet with regards to their Marxist inclinations. Why not be honest and admit it? You'll get a lot more respect if you do. You'll also get a lot more credibility if, instead of simply flaming people like the guy who wrote TFA and calling him a troll, you actually logically refute his points if you think they're invalid.