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Five Things You Can't Discuss about Linux
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."
Funny, I can't seem to find his name in any kernel commmits. Does he contribute under a pseudonym?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Maybe someone should take away the admin privileges of the "editor" who put up this article
Absolutely! Who is the bozo who posted this, anyways? This CmdrTaco guy should leave Slashdot to the guys who actually run the show - Zonk and kdawson.
I'm not sure if these are the five things, since the site is Slashdotted, but here's five more I've noticed you cannot discuss about Linux: 1. The negative effects of having multiple distros 2. The GIMP's interface 3. 3rd-Party games (though these days, there ARE a fair amount of good FOSS games) 4. BSD good, Gentoo for ricers 5. Fight Club
Executive Summary:
nothing to see here, move along...
Then how am I.. *pop*
1: Question authors background
2: ???
3: Karma!
Libertarian Leaning Political Discussion Forum.
In an ironic twist... www.itbusinessedge.com runs Windows Server 2003 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 and NetCraft confirms it and the fact I can't open it at all reaffirms it.
In a world of acronyms, the words are the real victims.
Site's already down?
You're not allowed to discuss this, boy; I'll let you get away with it this time, but next time it will mean some time in the cell with my deputy Sissy-John, mkay, son?
<insert your own joke here>
That is probably not a bad thing. The article is not worth reading anyway. Basically he uses logic like, "If Friday is happy and Saturday is Sad, July 25th is Antagonistic" to prove that Linux doesn't exist or something. At that point, after the quote, "I already said there is no Linux..." I had to stop reading.
-R
It is human nature to take shortcuts in thinking.
C'mon, Linux is like the Scientology of tech. The list of things that you aren't allowed to discuss is nearly endless.
Three Squirrels
Since we can't yet mod down stories, and I know a lot of you are aching to direct your mod points at someone, I thought as a courtesy, I'd post here so you could use me as a close enough proxy to modding down the story. Given as I've often criticized Linux.
You're welcome.
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
IT shouldn't be an advocate of any product
Of course not.
We should leave that job to hired shills like Rob "Ferrari Laptop" Enderle:
"One impressive piece of execution is that when you fire the machine up it plays a WAV file of a Ferrari race car revving its engine. That alone is worth the relatively low $1,899 price of admission. Even when I'm in a meeting, I don't turn the sound off because of the unbridled envy that seems to show up in the eyes of my, granted mostly male, co-attendees. So far no one has complained."
Click here for more shameless whoring...
Judging from the writing quality of this article, he can't write, period.
-Lars
An "insightful Rob Enderle" -- a contradiction in 3 words.
What next, a "brilliant John Dvorak"... oh, wait, that was last week.
Someone's been listening to too many Netflix commercials.
Proud member of the American Non Sequitur Society. We might not make much sense, but boy do we love pizza!
A non-cow produces no milk
or anything good of that ilk.
With no cud to chew
what else can it do
but spew fud for the Redmond-based bilk.
If you're going to ask for an article to be called trollish, at least have the decency to stand behind your name. Oh, whoops. You must be Mr. Enderle. So pleased to meet you at last...
(incidentally for the humour-challenged, the first words of that limerick was a contraction of "Anonymous Coward")
cheers...ank
Still hoping for Gentle Treatment...
Envy, yeah, right. More like stares of "WTF is wrong with you."
Just like the idiot using his Nextel cell phone as an old school walky-talky, just so the whole restraunt can hear his f-ing roger beep and know how cool he really is. Yes, when I glare at him, it's with envy. I'm envious his neck isn't in my hands.
I think the editor should be given a pat on the back! Here's why:
1. Idiot author writes inflammatory article
2. Said article is posted on Slashdot
3. Said article is no longer available for viewing by _anyone_ due to being Slashdotted
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
> Fedora recently started bundling Tomcat with their distros as an
> installable option...Anyone who has ever installed Tomcat knows how valuable that is.
You sick mother f***er! Why would you want that Scientology Elron crap installed on your computer?!?!? >:(
Oh wait. I thought you said Tomkat. n/m.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
The Five Things You Aren't Allowed to Discuss About Rob Enderle
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One: Is Rob Enderle a Myth?
Two: Is Rob Enderle Secure?
Three: Does Rob Enderle Work?
Four: Is Rob Enderle Pro-Developer, or Pro-You?
Five: Is Rob Enderle is Open?
Discuss....
Tagging: HAHA, DefectiveByDesign, ItsATrap...
Wait, this is about linux?!!!
Retagging: Troll, FUD, Flamebait.
Finding other idiots on
Life needs more saving throws.
He is very insightful. You just read his article and do the exact opposite of what he says. The guy must have written a thousand articles and the odds are only 1/2^1000 that he could have gotten every single one of them wrong accidentally, so he is clearly a genius who only pretends to be dumb.
Oh, but Enderle is a great writer! Look at the grammar in this sentence:
... and then this:
... but it was immediately followed by this:
... you might be tempted to think of the phrase "double standard". Perhaps even the word "hypocrite". However, once you saw that the author was Enderle, you'd realize that this was not, in fact, a double-standard spewing hypocrite. Rather, you'd realize that this was another ingenous attempt at postmodern critique of double standards themselves, made using the language of hypocrisy. In doing so, Enderle attacks the concept with itself. It's meta-linguistics that he's playing with here. Utterly brilliant.
"Presenting the products and companies in abstract was actually rather brilliant, however, I can't find a Steve Jobs-like person I can congratulated for this excellent work."
He's such a good writer that he can laugh in the face of a comma splice. He is so good that he can make up new rules (like "An independent marker word can join two independent clauses because I say so.") and people will think all the better of him for it. He deftly taunts us with our normal grammatical expectations and then pulls them away at the last minute, leaving us awash in a sea of sophomoric writing -- trapped in his world, right where he wants us.
On this same thread, he's pioneering the way in new lines of logic. For example, normally, if you saw this:
"If we are actually doing an evaluation we have to evaluate what we are actually going to end up using and it isn't generic "Linux.""
"Do your assessment with a real product against real metrics. SuSe and Red Hat are both capable enough to compete without cheating."
"The easy path here would be to present the different security models for the different distributions but, for this purpose, I'm going to leave Linux in abstract and talk about the unique security problem it represents."
Carry on, Enderle. Carry on.
Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint.
Except that Alan Cox guy, that totally sounds like a fake name