Forbes' Dan Lyons Hates Groklaw, Wants to Be BFF with Linux

Anastasia Beaverhousen writes "In what many will consider either a total change of heart (or complete BS), Forbes columnist Dan Lyons was caught on video by Linux.com (also owned by Sourceforge) at a recent conference professing his undying love for Linux. The words, "pry it out of my hands at gunpoint" were even used at one point. 'After wading though some of the Lyons vs. PJ mire while writing this brief piece, I found myself wondering, "Aren't we all supposed to be grown-up journalists, or bloggers, or whatever? Aren't Linux and Free Software supposed to be about love and harmony and making the world a better place? Can't we, please, smile on our brother, everybody love one another, right now?" In any case, old-hippie sentiments aside, Dan Lyons says that despite the many attacks on him as a supposedly anti-Linux attack dog, he loves Linux. And uses it. And that he has trouble understanding why anyone would think he doesn't love Linux. '"

Comments

Re:Who is this guy, and why should i care?

[joeyspqr]

if you're omnipotent, you don't care
if you're omniscient, you don't have to ask
and if you're omnipresent, you're standing right next to him and can ask

Lyons is a lying sack of shit

[Master of Transhuman]

Just like his Microsoft handlers.

I've seen enough of his FUD to know what he's about.

He's just trying to recover some "street cred" so he can go at Linux again in the future.

POS.

Re:Who is this guy, and why should i care?

[Facetious]

Early in the SCO saga, Forbes magazine essentially swallowed the story that Linux was pwn3d by SCO through direct copying, derivative works, etc. Dan Lyons was the man behind the pen at Forbes. Of course the concept of value addition without $$$ was foreign to Forbes, so it made sense in their little world that Linux must be stolen. Dan and PJ from Groklaw.net said some less than flattering things about each other, and the rest is history.

Lyons did eventually apologize.

Re:Who is this guy, and why should i care?

[jalefkowit]

He's probably better known these days as the guy who writes the "Fake Steve Jobs" blog. He wrote it anonymously for more than a year, picking up a not-inconsiderable audience (including both the real Steve Jobs and Bill Gates), until his identity was uncovered this past summer. Forbes rolled writing FSJ into his portfolio, and he has a Fake Steve book coming out this month.

Dan Lyon's isn't the only SCO Troublemaker

[Cassini2]

Andy Tanenbaum, the author of Minix, had a very interesting story about another SCO frontman, Ken Brown. http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/ Tanenbaum is somewhat famous for his advocacy of microkernel operating systems. The Linus Torvalds vs Andy Tanenbaum debates on the merits of microkernel (MINIX) operating systems versus monolithic (Linux) operating systems is something of a legend. Nevertheless, Tanenbaum defends Linux fairly vigorously, and this is another comment on SCO's, Dan Lyon's, and Ken Brown's general lack of research.

Re:So is dan a long-haired smelly communist now?

[Alsee]

For those who missed the Maureen O'Gara story on PJ, here's a link with the phone numbers and (most)addresses snipped out.

The only word for it is creepy. And content free. The only two words for it are creepy and content free. No wait, that's three words....

Long story story short, Maureen O'Gara stalked PJ posting JP's phone number address and home photo... reports that PJ apparently does not like the smell of paint thinner... and some strange guy apparently attempted to get into PJ's apartment... stalks to PJ's mother's house in Connecticut, frightening PJ's mother into calling the police who then talk to O'Gara (or O'Gara's investigator - this is unclear) because PJ has been receiving treats in the mail... and of course posting PJ's mother's home address and photo... and giving us the big scoop that apparently PJ drives a Japanese car and is a Jehovah Witness... which then proceeds to stalking PJ's son and his wife and again posting a phone number and PJ's son's home address (this address slipped through the address removal, oh well).

Seriously, that's all there is. Just in greater detail. Go ahead and read it. See just how creepy and insane Maureen O'Gara got in her SCO-kissing "journalism". This is Maureen O'Gara's great exposé on that evil evil PJ&Groklaw engaging in such unjust and untrue smear campaings against the great hero and viticm SCO, the evil evil PJ&Groklaw reporting so many "facts" that conflict so badly with Maureen O'Gara's own reporting and facts on the SCO case.

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