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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."
Since when do blog postings automatically mean they're news?
You must be a wikipedia editor. Your right unless your article is published by a massive multinational corporation your opinions arent valid.
Libertarian Leaning Political Discussion Forum.
Simply because he does not contribute directly does not void him from offering criticisms, and to suggest otherwise is blatant flamebait / trolling behaviour.
Q: Can "The Linux" compete with Microsoft, Apple or Sun?
A: Depends. On the desktop, no. On the server, rarely. Embedded in a microwave oven or something, yes.
Q: Do "The Linux" so-called experts have an attitude problem?
A: Watch how this is modded.
Q: Will large "The Linux" users eventually get sued by some corporation for patent violations?
A: Oh hell yes.
You can't discuss linux on slashdot any more honestly than you could discuss the latest Zelda game on a Nintendo forum.
You aren't allowed to suggest that linux may not be secure, or that the desktop environments for it are kludgy and half-assed, or anything else. It cannot be sanely and calmly discussed in the "linux community".
The "linux community" is not wholy populated with, but has an overwhelming amount of straight-up zealots. People who use linux for philosophical reasons, hate proprietary software because it's proprietary, and are full of naive college-age perceptions of "good" and "evil". These people are more often than not, really not all that technical. They are willing to accept, on faith, that linux is secure and perfect in every way.
They're sort of like the Creationist who doesn't really know enough about biology or evolution to prove or disprove the matter in any way - but accepts based on faith alone that God created everything, and there is simply no room for discussion. Everyone else is wrong, and every fact they put forth just further proves how base of a bunch of liars they are.
Nobody has ever found a "dinosaur", just like nobody has ever exploited a machine running linux. They're just filthy liars spreading fud and their opinions are therefore worthless.
Linux remains on the fringe despite all its technical achievements. The community keeps it their with the sheer force of their assholetry.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
1. Write a blatantly wrong and biased article about Linux and Open Source.
2. Put a link on Slashdot.
3. Watch your Add-Sense rating rise.
4. Profit!
Works every time. Enderle, Dvorak, and the likes of them are laughing their asses off.
Bob N'Drool is at it again. Of course, *he* would promote that IT not advocate a particular product, OS, etc. Unlike Bob *Rant for Rent* N'Drool, bastion of MSFT and others pay me for my opinions, but, of course, the money they pay me has no bearing whatsoever on what I advocate or pan. Nosirree, uh uh, never happen.... What a fargin' 'tard.
Widespread adoption of Linux on the desktop isn't going to happen. Here's why.
In 2004, it looked close. You could buy Linux desktop machines, and even laptops, at WalMart. Dell and HP had offerings. Today, the Linux laptops are gone from mainstream vendors.
What happened?
First, the laptop has replaced the desktop. Laptops used to be niche machines, expensive, fragile, and less powerful than desktops. That's changed. Today, for many users, a laptop is their primary machine. Laptops have less-standard hardware, and getting Linux to run reliably on a laptop without manufacturer cooperation remains iffy. Take a look at the laptop support instructions on Linux.org. Almost all the machines listed are out of production. (Many of the companies listed no longer even make laptops.)
Second, the ability to handle content in proprietary formats has become much more important to consumers. Want to play a DVD, or talk to the iTunes store? Tough. There's been talk of a "legal DVD player" for Linux since 2000, and although two companies came close to shipping such a player, neither still does. Linspire does have one, but only for their version of Linux, and there are some players licensable by OEMs for embedded devices. Seven years after the first claims of "real soon now" in Wired, it didn't happen.
Linux missed the window. Microsoft won. Deal with it, fanboys.
"IT shouldn't be an advocate of any product, because it needs to make determinations between them."
THIS from a guy who takes money from Microsoft to push Windows and attack Linux.
I mean, I thought Zionists and neocons had no shame and no intellectual integrity. This guy puts them to shame.
"Enderle clearly implies there was some sort of deliberate conspiracy to deceive by the people advocating linux"
Again, Enderle is projecting his own paid shilling onto his opponent.
This guy is a classic case of aberrant psychology. It doesn't get clearer than that.
The problem is that this drivel is intended to be read by people who don't know his history, don't know his bias, don't know he's a paid shill. They just see his bio as a "researcher" and think this is serious stuff.
This is how propaganda is disseminated.
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!