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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.
Executive Summary:
nothing to see here, move along...
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.
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.
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."
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An "insightful Rob Enderle" -- a contradiction in 3 words.
What next, a "brilliant John Dvorak"... oh, wait, that was last week.
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
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.