A True History of Linux
In my first article on Linux, I allerted my fellow conservatives to the liberalconspiracy that threatens our Nation’s IT Infrastructure. My next article compared the Linux and Windows operating systems, thus debunking much of the hype associated with this upstart. With this article, I would like to dispel many of the myths that surround the cult of Linux, with a view to exposing it’s real origins.
Ask any Linux hacker where Linux came from, and they will surely inform you that it was written from scratch by the Finnish programmer Linus Torvalds. They will tell you that he started by writing the “Kernel”.
Fact File: What is a Kernel? This component is used for typing in simple commands like “dir” and “more”. Windows has a component called “cmd.exe” which serves a similar purpose but comes with better commands. Windows programmers often use a modern graphical user interface in preference to a kernel, however Linux users do not have this luxuary.
According to legend Torvalds soon attracted a cult of self-confessed “hackers” who were able to further his goals. Many of these hackers are known only by their initials.
Linus Torvalds: His claims to have been the inventor of Linux have been somewhat debunked by a recent report by the Alexis De Tocqueville Institution. (photo from Wikipedia)
“RMS”: A noted “Open Source” activist. He invented the “eMac”, the only computer hacker’s word-processor compatible with Linux. His software is famous for being hard to use and inferior to modern tools like Visual Studio. (Photo: Wikipedia)
“ESR”: A close associate of Torvals. A self-confessed hacker. (Photo from http://www.catb.org)
“P.J.”: Runs the pro-Linux hate-site “Groklaw“. His true identity is a secret, known only to the inner-circle of Linux hackers. His contributions to the Linux computer program are also a secret.
We are expected to believe that the modern Linux just came about as a result of these amateur programmers, and until 2003 most technical people chose not to question these bizarre claims. Anybody familiar with the huge costs of building a modern operating system like Microsoft Windows Vista will know that this claim is somewhat unfeasible. In 2003
a company called SCO Group, the invenors of the “UNIX” operating system noticed something odd about Linux. Substantial portions of their own product called “SCO Unixware” were very similar to the published “source code” of Linux. They commissioned a major MIT study to discover if Linux was a copy of UNIX and were amazed at what they had found:
Fact File: What is source code? Old computer programs were distributed as source-code on magnetic tape. This is an obsolete way to distribute software that was used before the availablity of the more convenient “Binary” format. Even today, some programs (such as those written by GNU) are released as source code only. Perversely, this is to prevent the software from being used outside the fraternity of computer hackers.
“…we turned 3 different teams of code programmers loose on the codebases of AIX, Unix and Linux. And they came back with - independently - we had the three teams - one was a set of high-end mathematcians, rocket scientist, modeling type guys. Another team was based on standard programmer types. A third team were really spiffy on agent technology and how all of this technology was built in the first place. So the three teams came back independently and validated that there wasn’t just a little bit of code showing up inside of Linux from our Unix intellectual property base. There was actually a mountain of code showing up in there.” - Darl McBride, CEO SCO Group.
Darl, the charismatic leader of SCO Group, and a commited Christian claims that Linux hackers stole “Source Code” from his company.
SCO Group dropped a bombshell on the world of Linux. The evidence strongly suggested that this group of hackers had stolen the methods and concepts from their more advanced rival products, and worse still, major corporations had been colluding with the Linux hackers: Darl added, “Prior to IBM’s involvement, Linux was the software equivalent of a bicycle. Unix was the software equivalent of a luxury car. To make Linux acceptable to enterprise customers, it must be redesigned to become the software equivalent of a luxury car. This redesign was not technologically feasible without access to Unix code, methods and concepts.” In 2004, Forbes columnist Daniel Lyons wrote that SCO group had found a “Smoking Gun” - literally mountains of evidence that SCO’s intellectual property had been violated. But dont take his word for it, many leading tech analysts and journalists who once listed themselves as Linux admirers, have since turned their back on the beleaguered operating
system:
Maureen O’Gara, used to publish a journal called “Linuxgram”. After SCO’s damning revelations few businesses could afford to take Linux seriously. When she threatened to close down her popular journal, Linux activists working for P.J. ran a campaign of intimidation and dis-information in order to discredit the already disgruntled journalist. With friends like this, even the most ardent Linux enthusuast might be forced to think again. A leading tech analyst once a loyal IBM employee was forced to conclude: “IBM made a serious mistake in introducing Unix code into Linux without proper notification to? Or approval from SCO, which is the current, documented owner of Unix. The issue should have been fully vetted before Linux was compromised. The end result is a complex, no-holds-barred war against a much smaller company in an attempt to cover up and mitigate this mistake. In the process, the Linux community, in support of IBM, has been duped into using illegal means to attack SCO in the nastiest release of viruses the world has ever seen. The rest of us are used as cannon fodder in this virus plague.” - Rob Enderle, Principal analyst of the Enderle Group.
Rob turned away from Linux when he learnt of it’s criminality. He could in good faith continue contributing to the “Linux Community”.
Samizdat, the report by Ken Brown of AdTI. This book destroyed what little credibility Linux had left!
And if that was not enough, one of the most respected consulting organizations, The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution corroborated SCO’s allegations in their widely praised report “Samizdat”. This study proved beyond all doubt that Linux was in fact derived from a wide range other computer programs. It’s developers had re-used concepts from Unix without licensing the valuable patents: The Linux developers were stealing from American companies:
Linux hackers call Torvalds a “Dictator”, because he has based Linux on the principles originally developed by the Cuban Marxist terrorist Fidel Castro. (Photo from Wikimedia Commons)
Three years on from these shock revelations, Linux is still recovery. Linus Torvalds, who is often described as “Dictator for Life” is still in charge of this troubled program. He has finally recognized the need to clean up this mess and has ordered a complete overhaul of the Linux operating system. Meanwhile Microsoft Windows Vista is nearing completion, and is sure to be the most advanced and valuable computer program ever written. With Linux usage in decline, this could be the beginning of the end for Linux.
Most tech analysts agree that the struggle between SCO Group vs the IBM / Linux conspiracy is akin to David vs Goliath. It may be that SCO Group have already won their case, as IBM’s lawyers have prevented disclosure of many important documents that would vindicate SCO. (Pic by JAE)
If your friends or employers are considering switching to Linux, please remember the following key points:
- Linux has been developed by self-confessed hackers. Are these the people you want building your critical infrastructure?
- Linux adoption has been delayed by these troubling court-cases. Can you really afford to take a risk on this untested new product?
- Remember to make use of ADTI’s excellent “Samizdat“, a report that clearly debunks the origins of Linux.
Next week’s article: Can I get Sued for using Linux?
Nothing to say. This is the example why you should learn…
In your profile :”[...]I am recently retired IT manager from Tuttle-City…”
An IT manager…No kiddin ?! I’m sure you get fired !
Btw, i don’t know what is your weed, but I want the same !
OMG, I can’t help laughing my a$$ off. “RMS invented eMac” : loooool. I thought Apple did, and RMS’s excellent editor was EMACS, but seems like I was wrong. Keep going boyz, you’re doing great !
By the way, if you hate opensource software so much, why do you keep inserting pix from Wikimedia Commons, huh ?
Shelley you are the breast, I mean best Thank You for Everything. Can You Help Me Installing the superior Windows on my mac??? I just can’t get it done. Please pay ehm pray that my efforts will someday be rewarded
Thanks
Your Great Fan
Erle
PS: I want to move from Germany to Iowa - any suggestions???
Dear Shelley and Tristan,
I am only making a general comment about this website. I come from switzerland (one of the wealthiest country in the world)so sorry for my english, it is far from beeing perfect.
I don’t believe in god, but i hope you agree the fact that people all have different idea of the world, and i hope you can still argue with people who disagree with your theory (or is it already forbidden in US?). What i believe in, is that we, all the human beeing, are quite similar, in our way of thinking.
Now how is it possible that most of these human beeing disagree with you (look at the comments). Don’t you think our idea come from the fact we are observing, and then we deduce all our convictions on these fact? So maybe your believes are based on lies! Personally, I always watch out when i get an info or an idea. I always get several different sources to make my mind, and i always watch out not making big generalisation (like for germany, about 100 millions people, you judge all them on some cases, even if there is 100′000 racists there, which i doubt, it’s only 0.1% of the population)
Do you know what we hear about America here? (I have a lot of Amercian friends who agree) We hear that your country is getting more and more inegal. On average, this is a wealthy country, but there is more and more poor people and the rich get more and more rich. We hear that your medias are trying to hide this to you so people think they live in a perfect country. More than that, it’s getting more and more patriotic and any critism of what the governoment do is see like a “rebellion”. Do all the american have to think the same way then? Will soon the other ways of thinking be forbidden? I really hope your country is not evolving in a world discribed in the book “1984″, by George Orwell. (read it! Good book the make you think)
There is something strange with your christanism too. For me christianism is a relegion build on tolerance and peace. But what i only see in this website is untolerance and proud of making a war. Isn’t the real strengh the ability to forgive and to understand the others one?
I hope you will read me, and answer me, so we can keep discussing. Please try to consider my ideas without rejecting it the first you see something you disagree.
Sincerly, Seth.
why do you keep inserting pix from Wikimedia Commons
We use images from Wikimedia (and other sources) in order to make our stories more easily understood by our liberal readers. The pictures puntuate the stories and inject a moment of levity into what would otherwise be a serious, well-researched, highly technical document.
EMACS -> eMac :-)
Quote: “Fact File: What is a Kernel? This component is used for typing in simple commands like “dir” and “more”. Windows has a component called ?cmd.exe? which serves a similar purpose but comes with better commands. Windows programmers often use a modern graphical user interface in preference to a kernel, however Linux users do not have this luxuary.”
This is utter crap, and even the smallest modicum of research would’ve improved your understanding. Go and speak to *any* person with a computer science degree and they’ll set you right. The part of the operating system that manages the execution of simple commands is conventionally called the “operating system shell” (or just “shell” for short), or sometimes the “command line.” Unix tends to talk about the shell, windows tends to talk about the command line. This is something fundamentally different to the operating system kernel. The “kernel” on the other hand, is the most basic level of software that manages the resources in the computer, that is, the disk drives, memory, keyboard, display and so on. It presents a consistent interface for other programs (like the shell) to use. Without the kernel, every program would’ve had to do its own management of all the computer hardware, and chaos would reign.
For a far mor accurate appraisal of the concept of “kernel”, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_%28computer_science%29
Another thing - I was also an undergrad computer science student when Linus (also an undergrad at the time) started working on his pet project and essentially saw Linux as it developed from very modest beginnings to something which was useful enough to host the rest of the GNU tools on… It’s all true, however much you don’t want to believe it.
Well, well. You have a real trauma with Linux, don?t you?
I can’t wait to hear the whines and excuses the liberal democraps have to say THIS time.
I can’t wait to hear the whines and excuses the liberal democraps have to say THIS time.
Yes, I am sure we will see.
Some of their responses have been quite creative. I wish they would respond with clearly stated facts rather than the borderline hysteria which characterizes most Linux users.
Tristan
ignorant yanks , the dumbest species on the planet , be proud of yr country , moahahaha.
Bush , moahaha , y got to be kiddin me , no one takes that guy seriously outside the usa.
take a good look at the statitics between europe and the good ol usa on people in prison , poverty , abortionrate , drug use , crime , etc etc etc..
but h? delete this comment , bushians are good at that.
you guys haven’t had a single year without a war or military conflict since WW2 , and for what ? freedom? moahahaha , sure tell that to africa and the iraqi.
Some of their responses have been quite creative. I wish they would respond with clearly stated facts rather than the borderline hysteria which characterizes most Linux users. - Debunk This.
Okay where to begin on debunking your Post and not to mention correcting a hell of a lot of factual flaws that in your ignorance you have no researched.
First of all, In actual fact Windows was originally came with DOS hard coded into it and because the GUI(graphical user interface) was originally fairly limited in what it could do alot of the actions in windows were through the Dos prompt, many of the original users didnt have any choice in this, The windows COmmand prompt however is a final remainder of the DOS hard coding that has now been almost completly removed from Windows XP(NT 5). However if they are infact windows programmers they would be using a combination of both the ‘kernel’ and the GUI.
Linux users DO however have the option to use a GUI over a straight Kernel in certain versions of the Operationg system.
Secondly, if you did some more reasearch you would find that there are only SOME vendors of LINUX that are in dispute with the SCO group, the versions such as REDHAT Linux that are able to be purchased at your local computer store next to Windows in the OS isle for anywhere from 200-600 dollars. Please also note that LINUX is used to run ALOT of the internet and other Networks that form the internet as a whole.
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“Linus Torvalds: His claims to have been the inventor of Linux have been somewhat debunked by a recent report by the Alexis De Tocqueville Institution. (photo from Wikipedia)”
- Linux was infact created by UNIX after UNIX was released. Linux is Based on the UNIX system, however it was infact altered enough to be considered a new program, thus Linus is infact the creator. The Samzidat Says this.
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Upon reading the report by Ken brown… i have yet to see any destruction of the credibility of Linux, rather it goes into intricate detail of how Linux came to exist. Linux was released to the public.. not stolen. And it is true that SCO has filed a lawsuit against IBM in 2003 but it was dismissed in 2004 as there was no viable evidence to support the claim.
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?RMS?: A noted ?Open Source? activist. He invented ?eMac?, a the only computer hacker’s word-processor compatible with Linux. His software is famous for being hard to use and inferior to modern tools like Visual Studio. (Photo: Wikipedia)
- eMac is a type of Macintosh computer… not a Word Processor.
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If torvalds was also referred to as a dictator then why is it on almost any of the websites that you visit it is not calling torvalds a dictator of any sorts. here is a quote from wikipedia a site you regularily use yourself
“Many Linux fans tend to worship Torvalds as a kind of god. In his book “Just for Fun” he complains that he finds it annoying.” - Linus Torlvalds - Wikipedia.org
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“Fact File: What is source code? Old computer programs were distributed as source-code on magnetic tape. This is an obsolete way to distribute software that was used before the availablity of the more convenient ?Binary? format. Even today, some programs (such as those written by GNU) are released as source code only. Perversely, this is to prevent the software from being used outside the fraternity of computer hackers.”
- This is so incorrect it is not funny. Source code is the basic code that forms any computer program, It is what runs in the background behind windows, Linux, Mac OSX, games, Internet exploror or any thing you open on your computer.
“Source code (commonly just source or code) is any series of statements written in some human-readable computer programming language. In modern programming languages, the source code which constitutes a program is usually in several text files, but the same source code may be printed in a book or recorded on tape (usually without a filesystem). The term is typically used in the context of a particular piece of computer software. .” - Quoted from wikipedia.
The source code is then converted into Machine code when it is compiled (Binary)
‘A system of codes directly understandable by a computer’s CPU is termed this CPU’s native or machine language. Although machine code may seem similar to assembly language they are in fact two different types of languages. Assembly code consists of both binary numbers and simple words whereas machine code is composed only of the two binary digits 0 and 1. Every CPU has its own machine language, although there is considerable overlap between some. .’ - quoted from wikipedia.org
When you write that the computer programs were originally released in source code on tapes, Its almost as if you have taken the wikipedia definition at face value. Source code is readable logically by humans but when it is printed out or recorded on tape it is in its uncompiled state allowing it to be edited.
It is by no means an OLD way of distributing programs, but rather a Certain FORM that the Program is in. Linux was released ‘open source’ not because it is using an outdated method but so that it is uncompiled and people can freely change the code before it is compiled and turned into machine code.
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Linux is not in any sort of recovery from anything at all, torvalds has only started to ‘realise’ that the current version of Linux, Linux 2.5 is in need of an upgrade because it is buggy. And microsofts Vista is no where near completion, there is no suich thing as a complete product they will keep giving out updates and upgrades, i myself will not be convertion to VIsta, if i do it would only be to play HALO 2 on PC and yes, im playing computer games and i support the use of linux..
God is going to damn me to hell isnt he Fot playing games and Supporting linux and Supporting the australian Liberal party.. oh please save my soul. I dont worship your God, i Worship the God Father, God the Son and God the Holy spirit of the Anglican Church not your twisted denomination.
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* Linux has been developed by self-confessed hackers. Are these the people you want building your critical infrastructure?
- Please note that the term ‘hacker’ does not apply only to people who break into computers and steal information. Hacker also applies to people who create and alter software to suit a purpose, they are ‘hacking’ together programs.
* Linux adoption has been delayed by these troubling court-cases. Can you really afford to take a risk on this untested new product?
- Dis information, The major Law suit was dismissed in 2004
* Remember to make use of ADTI’s excellent ?Samizdat?, a report that clearly debunks the origins of Linux.
- It doesnt debunk anything, Rather it goes into detail on what linux is, who invented it, the court cases that ensued, Ideas on how to keep the free software out there etc. Re read it with an open mind and you will understand it better.
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i beg you, next time you try an write something as critical as this, Atleast try and do SOME research and use FACTUAL information.
addendum.. can i please point out that Darl Mcbride CEO of the SCO group is not a Christian?
‘Darl, the charismatic leader of SCO Group, and a commited Christian claims that Linux hackers stole “Source Code” from his company.’
He was a Missionary for ‘Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’
“The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the ‘LDS Church’ or the ‘Mormon Church’” - Wikipedia.
Hes a Mormon if this is to be beleived.
Dear Tristan,
First, I must thank you for taking so much of your time to write this well-researched article that once again tells the truth about Linux. Linux-using liberal extremists are going to hate you for this, but the truth is not always easy to accept, especially after having been in the dark for so long; their reactions show us the extent of their hateful indoctrination for anything better than Linux. I bet most of them are too blind to see, yet there’s still hope that a few readers will understand and revert to a good American-made Windows program.
I don’t have your level of knowledge on this matter, so I’m not gonna dissert on the topic, but one thing is sure: I don’t trust this “free” program no more than you do. After all, nobody gives out free stuff in this world these days without a good reason. It’s usually a commercial reason, to make us buy something else, but in this case I doubt that this is the real goal of Linux developers. These godless people try to convince the rest of the world they’re just a bunch of philanthropic guys working on a program for the welfare of Humanity, for free. I don’t buy this piece of shit, excuse my language. There has to be a shameful reason these developers are ashamed of and try to hide through the use of a wide-spread propaganda. But a true American Patriot can’t just trust a bunch of unknown developers in an unknown number of unknown foreign communist/islamofascist countries. Obviously, this program made in countries loathing America is trying to spy on our lifestyles in order to destabilize our country, either by economic spying, or by providing vital and personal information to liberal and terrorist lobbies. This is why this program should be banned from our country.
I also have to add that from what I have personally experienced, Linux is impossible to use for the average people. Every time you need to plug in a mouse, a printer, a webcam or something like that, you have to painfully search the web for the proper driver, then try to install it, and when it doesn’t work try to find the solution all by yourself. This is another reason to be suspicious: unlike Windows, Linux is extremely opaque. Microsoft has a customer service, books on their programs explaining how they work, and other kind of useful information on the web; Linux is so complex that you usually never find the information you need, and if you do, only after days or weeks of fruitless research. In other words, you usually have to trust foreigners once again to fix the “problem”, and that is definitely not a good thing. On Windows, those devices can just be plugged in without further action.
Tristan, you are not only a true American Christian Patriot, but also a Hero. Writing such an article requires great courage, for Linux bloodthirsty beasts are now going to attack your site relentlessly. But you should know that you are not alone in this fight: we stand by you and will pray for you to keep the necessary strength to resist to all these perfidious and often wrong attacks.
Best regards,
Bob, a true American Patriot
and Linux-hater
Well researched? are you DAFT? eMac is a macintosh computer. Darl mcbride hails form a mormon church!
Writing such an article requires great courage, for Linux bloodthirsty beasts are now going to attack your site relentlessly. But you should know that you are not alone in this fight: we stand by you and will pray for you to keep the necessary strength to resist to all these perfidious and often wrong attacks.
Thanks Bob, we write this site for people like you, the quiet majority conservative readers. It’s people like you who make the whole project worthwhile. You understand the need to loyalty to our Presidency, and the need to conserve the values that make America great.
We will shortly be inviting suggestions and articles from our readers. As you know the it takes a great deal of research and fact-checking to deliver a blog that is widely read as ours. Can I count on you to offer your wisdom? We need people like you.
God Bless You,
Tristan
P.S. Make sure you register with our “Free Speech Zone”, and put yourself on the “Map of Patriots” - these are essential tools in the campagin to prevent Linux using Democ-rats from ruining our great country. Links for both of these are at the top of the page.
Well researched? are you DAFT? eMac is a macintosh computer.
So are you saying that “RMS” stole the name from one of Apple’s computers? That is quite an allegation. Can you substantiate it?
I know liberals think it’s cool to steal intellectual property, however we conservatives value such things and do not take kindly to criminal activities; especially those committed by terrorist hackers.
As you know the it takes a great deal of research and fact-checking to deliver a blog that is widely read as ours. Can I count on you to offer your wisdom? We need people like you.
once again what research? EMAC is a macintosh computer and Darl Mcbride Hails is a mormon.
http://www.apple.com/education/emac/
Solved
would you like me to use words of one sylable when i post next?
Oh, so you’d like clearly stated facts? Given that your idea of a fact is nothing more than an ideological farce, I’m going to have trouble believing that whatever meandering remains of a brain you’re harbouring within your skull are able to understand what we say. I’ll give it a go, regardless.
So let’s begin.
“Ask any Linux hacker where Linux came from, and they will surely inform you that it was written from scratch by the Finnish programmer Linus Torvalds.”
The Facts: Pretty much true, Linus developed Linux because he wanted to create an operating system that exceeded the capabilities of Minix, a Unix distribution that was being used at his University.
“Fact File: What is a Kernel? This component is used for typing in simple commands like “dir” and “more”. Windows has a component called ?cmd.exe? which serves a similar purpose but comes with better commands. Windows programmers often use a modern graphical user interface in preference to a kernel, however Linux users do not have this luxuary.”
The kernel is a program that constitutes the central core of a computer operating system, and has complete control over everything that occurs in the system. It doesn’t ever directly interface with the user, but instead interfaces with the shell and/or other programs, which the user then interacts with. You’re mistaking the kernel for a shell in this case. And no, you’ll find that Linux users have the luxury of a graphical user interface, along with a range of shells with comprehensive commands, giving them much more control over their system than a Windows user.
“According to legend Torvalds soon attracted a cult of self-confessed ?hackers? who were able to further his goals.”
You’re actually referring to a group of programmers, and most certainly not a cult. Your user of the word “hacker” is also out of context, due to the fact that you’re not giving any indication as to whether you’re referring to the media depicted model or the actuality of the matter.
“?RMS?: A noted ?Open Source? activist. He invented ?eMac?, a the only computer hacker’s word-processor compatible with Linux. His software is famous for being hard to use and inferior to modern tools like Visual Studio. (Photo: Wikipedia)”
Hah, I think the deal with eMac has already been dealt with, but for your information word-processors that will run under linux include Pico, Nano, Vi, OpenOffice Writer and MS Word. You’re also in violating of the GFDL, the license under which Wikipedia content is provided, because what you’ve released her doesn’t comply with that license. Nice going with your comprehensive “research” into these matters, chump.
“We are expected to believe that the modern Linux just came about as a result of these amateur programmers, and until 2003 most technical people chose not to question these bizarre claims. Anybody familiar with the huge costs of building a modern operating system like Microsoft Windows Vista will know that this claim is somewhat unfeasible.”
What a laugh, heh. Modern linux distributions came about as a result of these programmers working with the Linux kernel and branching off into various projects with dedicated teams working on their development. If you knew anything about Linux at all, you’d know that companies such as Red Hat, Mandriva and Novell all develop Linux distributions with their own teams of coders and external contributors. Linux doesn’t incur such huge costs in production because the release cycle is substantially faster, with development versions for bug-testing available much more readily, allowing rapid-development due to the speed with which problems are isolated and corrected. You should also note that Microsoft Windows Vista has cost so much to develop, due to the fact that the project is grossly off-scheduale due to incompetence within the company. Using them as a benchmark is far from realistic.
“Fact File: What is source code? Old computer programs were distributed as source-code on magnetic tape. This is an obsolete way to distribute software that was used before the availablity of the more convenient ?Binary? format. Even today, some programs (such as those written by GNU) are released as source code only. Perversely, this is to prevent the software from being used outside the fraternity of computer hackers.”
Your fact files are disgusting. If you’d ever compiled a program from source, you’d know that the reason for doing so is to allow for bug-testing and to allow for certain components and options that can only be decided during the compile process to be selected by the user in question. Compiling a program from source is NOT hard as you seem to believe, as most source code packages come with instructions on how to successfully compile the program.
“SCO Group dropped a bombshell on the world of Linux. The evidence strongly suggested that this group of hackers had stolen the methods and concepts from their more advanced rival products, and worse still, major corporations had been colluding with the Linux hackers:”
Yeah, sure they did. SCO Group filed a law suit against Linux claiming that their copyrighted source code was within the Linux kernel. Immediately after this, they attempted to file suit against Novell, in order to get Novell to transfer the copyright for Unix to them. So technically speaking, from a legal standpoint, SCO had no claim over the Unix source code at the time, and Novell, who held the rights at that time, had no qualms with Unix source being in Linux - especially given that Novell own and produce SuSE Linux, hence meaning that there really is no issue here. Nothing more than smoke and mirrors, and a big publicity stunt to attempt to discredit Linux. This entire line is a load of crap, given the issues of legality with SCO claiming they had rights over something they later admitted they did not have posession of the rights to. Their claims were falsified, as is this entire section of your pathetic post.
“Linus Torvalds, who is often described as ?Dictator for Life? is still in charge of this troubled program. He has finally recognized the need to clean up this mess and has ordered a complete overhaul of the Linux operating system.”
Verify your claim. Who amongst the IT industry (and competitors such as SCO, Apple and Microsoft do NOT count for self-interest reasons) calls Linus a “Dictator for Life”. Who says that it’s “troubled”? I fail to see why a company like Novell would bother continuing with a “troubled” product, or why Linux would be the operating system of choice for IT professionals, server administrators, webhosts, chat-servers and internet service providers.
“Meanwhile Microsoft Windows Vista is nearing completion, and is sure to be the most advanced and valuable computer program ever written. With Linux usage in decline, this could be the beginning of the end for Linux.”
Microsoft Windows Vista is grossly off-scheduale, and tipped even by Windows supporters to be an anticipated behemoth disaster. Microsoft stripped the majority of the new OS’s proudly boasted features, including an entirely new file system. Microsoft are not above recycling old and defunct code, with examples such as Windows 2000 (which was in actuality nothing more than WindowsNT with Service Pack 6 in a new box with another name) and it’s later followup WindowsXP being heavily NT based, and due to the shortcuts required to allow Microsoft to release Vista within a year of going over their proclaimed deadline, I can’t imagine that they’d be about to stop here. If Windows is so great, why are countries like Spain and Taiwan developing and using Linux distributions for professional use rather than use Microsoft products? Why did the state of Massachusetts choose to abandon Microsoft’s proprietary .doc format for the OpenOffice alternative?
The answer is simple. Microsoft products are not the be-all and end-all of the computing world, nor are they by far the most dependable or the most advanced. You’ve claimed in previous articles that Linux opens systems up to all manner of vulunerabilities, but you forget that the majority of viruses to hit the internet have been coded for and aimed at Windows operating systems, as they are NOT equipped with any means of protecting the system’s integrity, not by a long shot, whereas a standard Linux distribution always comes with security measures in place.
Given the extreme inaccuracy of this apalling excuse for an article, I can’t see how you can possibly understand what I’ve just tried to tell you. Maybe you never will. It’s people like you that hold the rest of humanity back with your archaic views and insidious lies. You seem to snap at all the lies and misconceptions you can to feed a hopeless delirium of inadequacy you feel within your life, and in doing so think that by expelling the things you get out of it on a blog makes them in some way accurate.
I pity you, only in that I know that some day you and your contemporaries are going to be introduced rather forcefully to a thing the rest of the world refers to as reality. Your “facts” and views are ill-researched, and your articles poorly written.
As mentioned earlier, you’ve also failed to license your content correctly in accordance with the GFDL, the license under which Wikipedia content comes under, and thus also the license your content is required to use in order to utilise wikipedia content. Given that you spent so much time ranting about intellectual theft in your sickeningly infantile article, I find it to be ironic.
Oh, and yes I’m the guy who replied to your cohort Shelley’s spectacularly pathetic 1 million clicks splurge. So to save you some time, I’ll reiterate the fact that if you attempt to censor me, I’ll continue to post this comment until such a time as you and your fellow bowel parasites grow enough of a spine to accept it.
Ahh, you Americans are so much fun. No, Serious… you sound like great people to hang around. So… open minded and friendly… oh wait, no you aren’t… I must have been thinking of somewhere that isn’t full of arrogant, ignorant, pig headed yokels. My mistake. Excuse me.
I can only say one thing in response, well maybe a couple of things, What a slanted, uninformed, pile of steaming manure. And I’m being nice about it.
Linux hippies.
R2K
Not all Americans are as retarded as her.
“Go and speak to *any* person with a computer science degree and they’ll set you right.”
Go speak to any 15 year-old! I had faith in humanity until I read this article.
“trying to spy on our lifestyles in order to destabilize our country, either by economic spying, or by providing vital and personal information to liberal and terrorist lobbies. This is why this program should be banned from our country.”
Oh, you mean like what the republicans are trying to do now to America.
“I also have to add that from what I have personally experienced, Linux is impossible to use for the average people.”
That’s because Linux is mostly used by people who know how to turn on a computer. People who are tired of seeing:
Comp: Would you like to close down Microsoft is Spying on you?
Me: Yes
Comp: I’m sorry, this process is deemed crutical, we will not let you shut it down.
In conclusion, Shelley, and whoever agrees with her, please shoot yourself and save everyone else the trouble.
I am not American, but I am a Christian and you are way out of line to associate Christianity so closely with (a) America, (b) the Republican Party, (c) take-no-prisoners capitalism and (d) this pile of hooey you wrote regarding Linux, SCO and Microsoft. Groklaw a hate sight? Faw. Groklaw is largely composed of court filings and news reports, co-ordinating comments, comparisons and the pursuit of understanding. I also find it a stretch for a Christian to claim any writings by Ayn Rand as “their favourite” — it’s possible, but I suspect you of being an agent provocateur rather.
You, on the other hand, fell pray to a form of Godwin’s Law when you compared Linus’ “control” of Linux to Fidel Castro’s rule of Cuba. Get your facts straight, please, and stop shaming others who identify themselves as Jesus’ disciples by identifying yourself so blatantly as one of us while at the same time spewing such vitriol as I read here. Your post made me nauseous.
benevolent dictator for life, you dumbass!!
This was written on mandriva 2006 powerpack edition.
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I am a christian (Baptist), a strict conservative (Republican), a Linux Users, and a capitalist. As a Christian I value the truth, and insist on the whole truth. As a conservative I value life (I am pro-life), the truth (once again), I also value my rights (right to bear arms, and such), and I also support our government and soldiers in the war. As a linux user I value being able to see what my computer is doing and fixing it.
As a capitalist I can see how Linux is attractive to major corporations such as IBM (their bigger than microsoft), RedHat (They package and sell Linux), Autozone, Chrysler, Bank of America, ect. The thing is each of these companies use and/or sell Linux. According to a MS-Word document released by SCO they planned to sue Bank of America but then changed the letter for DaimlerChrysler.
SCO has claimed one thing to the SEC, where it is required to tell the truth, and claimed yet another in court filing, where it is also supposed to tell the truth. SCO has even made contradictory claims in different courts. SCO has claimed to have “Mountains of evidence” yet tells the court that it didn’t exist. SCO claims to be a defender of IP, yet they have BSD code in their OS without the BSD copyright in place as was shown when they claimed the netfilter code was theirs. so they don’t exactly tell the truth.
As far as the quality of your article, and research, I feel that this article was written by the Tom and the old Dateline crew then packaged as a “conservative” news item and posted on a blog so they can discredit conservative news sources.
All you need to know about SCO:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060517141053523
Kernel : Even I know what a kernel is. It is not the shell or command line like you say it is the main thing of an operating the most important one and even windows has one. BTW windows’ kernel is awfully full of bugs and vulnerabilities unlike linux’
Open Source:
It is helluva easy to type ./configure then make then sudo make install . You don’t have to be a hacker to compile source code and even so there are binary distributions for most of the linux programs.
Source code distribution has the advantage that you can do processor specific optimizations so it would run much faster than binary distributions.
They also have the major advantage of allowing True Cross Platform Software.
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And to answer the last 3 questions, I do use linux, I use it much more than windows XP why? Because it is faster! Much faster actually. Also OpenOffice is much better for homework than MSOffice and I feel 30000 more efficient when I use OpenOffice.
And I am not losing money! And since I am a c++ programmer I can always adapt programs to my needs. That’s another meaning for hacker.
In fact you should learn the differences between hacker and cracker.
where do I start to debunk this article completely ???
Tristan when will you learn eh?
well here goes….
Windows programmers often use a modern graphical user interface in preference to a kernel, however Linux users do not have this luxuary
really? strange that the lastest version of SUSE Linux 10 (which I am using to write this) amongst many many others does then. It is possible to get versions that dont but they are manily used by IT Professional who have real IT Qualifications unlike yourself!
screenshot of SUSE Linux 10 (looks much nicer than windoze!)
Suse Screenshot
Linus Torvalds: His claims to have been the inventor of Linux have been somewhat debunked by a recent report by the Alexis De Tocqueville Institution. (photo from Wikipedia)
once again your are very badly informed as usual.
Alexis De Tocqueville Institution heavily funded by Microsoft
Heavily funded by Microsoft, they have engaged in a number of campaigns to suggest Open Source Software, and Linux in particular, is dangerous, insecure, and illegal.
In 2004, the institute announced a book claiming Linus Torvalds did not invent Linux. The book’s prepublication draft was widely discredited, eventually leading the AdTI to abandon its plan to officially publish the book. The critique led Roland Smith to give the institute the nickname “the think tank that didn’t”, a nickname that was then gleefully picked up by others in the Linux community. (While conceding they did fund the institute, Microsoft refused to comment on whether they specifically funded the book.)
In 2003 a company called SCO Group, the invenors of the ?UNIX? operating system noticed something odd about Linux. Substantial portions of their own product called ?SCO Unixware? were very similar to the published ?source code? of Linux. They commissioned a major MIT study to discover if Linux was a copy of UNIX and were amazed at what they had found
once again you are poorly informed.
Linux was not stolen
“In a recently unsealed email in the SCO vs. IBM case, it appears that an outside consultant, hired by SCO in 2002, failed to find copyright violations in the Linux Kernel. This was right around the time Darl McBride, who has before been hired by litigious companies as CEO, was hired. It appears that before SCO even began its investigation, they were hoping to find a smoking gun, not believing that Linux could possibly not contain Unix code. Apparently, they ignored the advice of this consultant.”
microsoft has been doing a bit of stealing itself recently!
Meanwhile Microsoft Windows Vista is nearing completion, and is sure to be the most advanced and valuable computer program ever written. With Linux usage in decline, this could be the beginning of the end for Linux.
well it is not sure that vista will even be released on the date they have stated!
Windows Vista would be delayed
n March, Microsoft announced that widespread distribution of Windows Vista would be delayed until early 2007. Now, research firm Gartner Group has reported that the operating system might not be fully available until at least the second quarter of next year.
It’s not looking good for Vista according to Microsofts own employees!
Vista is the biggest software development failure of all time
“Vista is the biggest software development failure of all time, IBM’s office vision was the previous record holder, with $900 million spent? Vista has cost five or six billion,” the poster moaned.
However, one person, who claimed to work in the Windows department said that Vista simply was not ready to ship.
Their sales estimates have been called into question too
sales estimates have been called into question
“Due to the usability challenges that customers will face with Vista, Yankee Group also finds that widespread adoption of the new operating system will be slower than Microsoft?s estimate of 400 million desktops in 24 months. In addition, Yankee Group expects that many customers will defer major upgrades because of the expense of upgrading end-user desktops, and because Microsoft will market security as a “feature” that users must pay for to obtain,” according to the statement.
As for declining use of linux that is not true, more and more people are switching to Linux. More and more companies are switching to Linux. More and more government, militaries and civil aviation control are switching to Linux.
It’s simply that linux is more stable, reliable and secure than Windoze
How Linux is hurting Microsoft
U.S. government agencies turn to Linux
53% of North American companies use Linux
FAA switches air traffic control to Linux
F-35 cockpit display system to run Linux apps
Next week’s article: Can I get Sued for using Linux?
well guess the US government will have to sue itself then……?
I look forward to your comment on this and all the other posts…but I guess you’ll just ignore them as usual.
Please for once acually debate this issue
Gee, Once again, Tristan not only shows that he is a complete moron. But that he also knows nothing about anything he tries to talk about. the SHELL is the program that for typing simple commands. And windows has one to, they call it the command line,
How may times are you gonna let this guy publish his lies and ignorance before take his keyboard away from him. We all thought that this site was funny, that why people come to read it. but this time, for some reason, I really think this guy is being honest. He really is this stupid. And that scares me.
How in this day and age can someone be let to be this stupid. How is a man like this able to walk free about us. How can you let him post these lies? Does he even look up anything he writes about. This retard doesn’t even know the difference between a kernel and a shell.
PLEASE ANSWER THIS QUESTION SHELLEY OR TRISTAN.
You claim to support the troops but donate money to westboro baptist church who protest at soldiers funerals?
how can you justify this and still call yourself a christian?
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You claim to support the troops but donate money to westboro baptist church who protest at soldiers funerals?
I’d like to know that too? Also simply how can you call yourself a christian? you preach hatred against anyone who doesn’t have the exact views as yourself! The bible tell you to love you neighbour and preaches tolerance?
Please explain to us all how you are a christian?
Yeah how it that?
Westboro Baptists are traitor to our country by protesting against the troops. They have a difficult enough job without so called chrsitians protesting against them. The troops are not to blame, they were sent there by bush & buddies illegally but have no choice. over 2000 of them have given their lives for their country plus hundreds of british and other countries troops!
I am disgusted that you could support such traitors, they should be prosecuted and face the death penalty for this
What is your problem with people using linux? this is a free country and so if I want to use linux I am free to do so just as you are free to use windows.
Are you anti-freedom?
Oh my god!
I used to support you but no longer! I am so angry that you could possibly donate money to westboro baptists. Dont you know anything about them?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church_(Topeka)
Westboro Baptist Church is an organization based in Topeka, Kansas, headed by minister Fred Waldron Phelps, Sr. and notorious for running godhatesfags.com and other websites expressing its condemnation of various groups (see “WBC Websites” below). Although its members identify themselves as Baptists, the church is one of many independent Baptist churches throughout the United States not affiliated with any known Baptist conventions or associations. The church describes itself as following Primitive Baptist and Calvinist principles, though it has been accused by others of Satanism or more lightly, Hyper-Calvinism.[1]
THEY ARE SATANISTS !!!!!!!!!!!!
please tell me this is a joke?
Did you realize that your website is running on Linux?
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.shelleytherepublican.com
Tristan, linux, with the gnu utilities, window manager, and many other program are just software, bit and byte.
Don’t try to link it with illiberal, anti god, anti religious people. That’s just wrong.
I’m using OpenSuSE 10.1, with gnome interface with the xgl libraries, It’s just great.
At the same time, I go to the church, and I pray. I work for a Private Banking Bank… so… how can I be more capitalist than that ?
Shelley, I am a christian republican. Nobody with a minimum of literacy can believe this bullshit. You are looking like an ignorant. You are ashaming me, all republicans, and our country.
one little linux, two little linux, three little linux, four little linux, are you asleep and dreaming or something or are you just simply possesed by linux. Maybe you should get a job with them, i am sure they love all this free marketing you are giving them.. shelly you just don’t get it gal
Words can not express my concern over this blog site. As a conservative Christian, it deeply troubles me that you would use lies and half truths to support your position. You lose all credibility when you construct an argument that is not based on fact. Many of the “sources” you site have been proven false or incorrect quite a while back. You contribute to the problem of not being able to debate any issue, because truth does not matter to you. Only that you believe what you want to believe, no matter what the truth is. This is no different than Dan Brown’s DaVinci Code. Just as Brown, you state that lies are facts and then proceed to make your case.
For those of you out there reading this, please know that the majority of political conservatives and Christians do not share these views. We all have those on the far fringe of our beliefs (left or right) that make us all look bad. I’ll disregard your fringe if you would please disregard mine.
So I dont get it. Shelly, why are you and your father “Tristan” so against linux in the first place?
Anonymous said…
PLEASE ANSWER THIS QUESTION SHELLEY OR TRISTAN.
You claim to support the troops but donate money to westboro baptist church who protest at soldiers funerals?
how can you justify this and still call yourself a christian?
ARE YOU GOING TO ANSWER MY QUESTION?
I’M NOT GOING AWAY. YOU CLEARLY ARE NOT CHRISTIANS IF YOU SUPPORT WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH SO JUST ANSWER MY QUESTION INSTEAD OF DOING WHAT YOU ALWAYS DO AND IGNORE ANYONE WHO SAYS ANYTHING THAT DOESN’T FIT IN WITH YOUR NARROW MINDED, RACIST, IGNORANT AND BIGOTED VIEW
SO JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Every time you need to plug in a mouse, a printer, a webcam or something like that, you have to painfully search the web for the proper driver, then try to install it, and when it doesn’t work try to find the solution all by yourself.”
Really, thats interesting. I run gentoo linux ( http://www.gentoo.org) which I admit is not the easiest to install, I chose it for the challenge and have been aptly rewarded with a fully functional, much more stable than windows operating system. I recently bought a wireless mouse and keyboard for my computer. I plugged it in, booted into windows and inserted the driver disk. It didnt work before or after I installed the windows drivers until I rebooted, removed the drivers and rebooted again. Then I booted into linux and it worked, without chaning a config file or looking for a single driver. I have to admit, I expected the exact opposite, and bought the keyboard/mouse expecting that it might not work in linux as it was a noname brand and I wanst sure that it woulpd comform to the usb standards. Same thing with my external hard drive, music player, camera, and webcam. For all but the webcam, a quick edit to my /etc/fstab file and a mount -a had all of them working properly. The webcam required a kernel rebuild to add the necesary drivers, but then it worked. Granted in windows I just had to plug the camera et al in and they worked, but at the same time windows would have run any malicious code that may be present on such a device whereas linux wouldnt. Sounds safer to me.
BTW windows has a kernel too, and microsoft writes source code for all of there programs, this is how programs are created. Interesting that an IT manager wouldnt know anything about windows. You would have to interact with the kernel at some point to do IT. Maybe you did IT on a linux/UNIX box? Or maybe your mother drank too much when she was pregnant with you. That would explain your disposition.
I have been thinking. It is rather coincedental that a former IT manager from tuttle starts posting anti-linux remarks on some extremists blog only a short period of time after the Tuttle cities IT manager Jerry L Taylor is made to look like an idiot by the open source community for mistaking centOS for a virus. The flavour of taylor’s emails and the idocrity that he and tristan show seems a little too similar. Jerry is that you? Are you now a former IT manager because you have shown that you are too stupid to manage IT for a city? Is this your way of making yourself feel better? Insulting the linux community with lies?
Hmmm. Bet this one gets banned.
Ya free speech.
LOL! You and your “facts” would be more believable if you actually knew what a kernel was, or had any idea of history as it truly happened.
My guess is that this blog is satire… or started off as satire and then changed direction.
If it is satire, it is hilarious. If not, it is just sad and pathetic.
You forgot to mention another display of pure evilness: the author of the Open Source software flagship, the editor “VIM” collects donations to send them to Uganda to build schools.
Can you imagine how much this will hurt the american firearm manufacturers if instead of having those kids buying guns and fighting against each other they would become educated, with aspirations and the ability to think by themselves???
Tristan, before talking about something you must read a lot!I am italian, I study informatic engineer in Italy. you don’t know the difference between the kernel and the interpreter of commands. I use linux, you say I have stolen ideas from other companies…windows is the most important thing stolen in computer’s history! bill gates is a programmer, but he isn’t a good programmer. he had stolen an idea and he become rich. In order to this, you should say I am a thief?
ahahahahahahahahhahaahahhaahhahahaahhaahahhahahahahahahahahahahahhahah
come here, call the police because I write my personal code and I can compile kernel as I want!!!!
Ah…for install linux you use an iso track on a CD-DVD, to compile kernel you have to enter in a linux system, use a simple c compiler and some commands written in english…can you speak english? can you use a c compiler? have you ever written code using c? I think not. when I have problems users are always ready to help you. mah I can’t understand what do you know to your students…I can understand why americans needs european reserches!!!!
I’m getting my degree…if I should go to work in USA I hope that in my team there will not be people like you!!!
Thank God you are here to expose the truth about these evil loonix terrorists!
You forgot to mention about poor Darl also having his cows stolen by these fanatics. And I’ve heard that this “PJ” guy even fantasizes about wearing a red dress! Disgusting!
Keep up the good work. All hail George Bush!
Another fan from Utah (Home of Saint Orrin the infinitely wise and just, particularly if you are a record company or movie studio.)
I would like to show you how poorly you research and how badly you mis-state facts.
“”P.J.”: Runs the pro-Linux hate-site “Groklaw”. His true identity is a secret, known only to the inner-circle of Linux hackers. His contributions to the Linux computer program are also a secret.”
Having never been to groklaw before, I decided to go and see how P.J. hides his identity. Well, I scrolled to the bottom of the page and found this:
“Groklaw ? Copyright 2003-2006 Pamela Jones.
All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.
Comments are owned by the individual posters.
PJ’s articles are licensed under a Creative Commons License.”
Well ‘he’ is a she and P.J. is Pamela Jones. Good research work. Moron. BTW, using initials is not a way to hide identity, it is shorthand. When people are writing too each other, by email or by snail mail or on a blog or whatever, they often use some identifiable shorthand rather than the whole name. PJ is Pamela Jones apparently, and RMS is Richard M Stallman. Those people to whom he writes know that that is his identifier, it is as if you wrote to your child and put T.S at the end, or dad, or father or whatever. Its not code, just shorthand. Anyone who knows anything about open source knows that RMS is Richard Stallman, and for your info, RMS has little to no direct connection to linux, rather to GNU (GNU’s Not UNIX) which he has helped to develope. And RMS invented EMACS, not eMac. They are not the same thing, at all. EMACS isnt even the main editor for GNU/linux computers, many use VI, VIM, nano, etc. And yes, EMACS is hard to use if you are a monkey and dont take five minutes to RTFM (read the ____ing manual). BTW visual studio isnt much of anything special, many developers use linux to write code and have no need for visual studio.
Not to mention the fact that emacs et al is a text editor, not a word processor.
I truely do hate you, you should write an article on me, i Speed, i dont believe in a god, i have used linux, i love violent video games, i like porn, i have had sex (and im not married GASH!), and i LOVE ALCOHOL!, i listen to metal music and Slipknot (hint: Listen to the song Heretics Anthem its great) i yell at old people, im part german (and are you of 100% native american? if not shut your mouth about europeans, they are great) so with all due respect, write an article on me… because all the other things you write about are complete nonsense. and im not going to get into liberal/conservitive bullshit here, in order for this country to thrive we need to get rid of all of that. Oh, and what is to say that i dont just start a web page completely breaking down each one of your articles and tell you how much bs it is?
common reply to this, or do you not care?
Europeans, Negating all the spelling errors i probably made on this: not all americans are like her, in fact shes one of like 5 ive met in my life. complete scum in my opinion
I sure do hope you discuss this later…
windows vista is crap, and you would know had you tried it, tristan.
Anonymous said…
Anonymous said…
PLEASE ANSWER THIS QUESTION SHELLEY OR TRISTAN.
You claim to support the troops but donate money to westboro baptist church who protest at soldiers funerals?
how can you justify this and still call yourself a christian?
STILL NO ANSWER TRISTAN AND SHELLEY? COME ON WITH ALL YOUR “SOURCES” YOU MUST BE ABLE TO DEBUNK THIS.
I’LL CONTINUE POSTING AND POSTING UNTIL YOU ANSWER MY QUESTION, I BET A LOT OF OTHERS HERE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR YOUR JUSTIFICATION FOR DONATING MONEY TO A SATANIC ORGANISATION WHO CLAIM TO BE CHRISTIANS
I’LL BE WAITING……………
Fact File: What is a Kernel? This component is used for typing in simple commands like “dir” and “more”.
That’s so funny Shelley, please entertain us more with your silliness.
On the one hand, the only target you reach here is making a good advertisement for linux, because the stupidest rural republican knows it due to your ridiculous statements now and I guess that it’s not what you purposed.
On the other hand, you make yourself look silly, but the most visitors on your site already know that. You don’t have to prove it over and over again.
What the hell!!! This guy is insane…
And what about “Next week’s article: Can I get Sued for using Linux?”
You should write something like: “Can I die for being stupid?”
I truely do hate you, you should write an article on me, i Speed, i dont believe in a god, i have used linux, i love violent video games, i like porn, i have had sex (and im not married GASH!), and i LOVE ALCOHOL!, i listen to metal music and Slipknot (hint: Listen to the song Heretics Anthem its great) i yell at old people, im part german (and are you of 100% native american? if not shut your mouth about europeans, they are great) so with all due respect, write an article on me… because all the other things you write about are complete nonsense. and im not going to get into liberal/conservitive bullshit here, in order for this country to thrive we need to get rid of all of that. Oh, and what is to say that i dont just start a web page completely breaking down each one of your articles and tell you how much bs it is?
We have written countless articles about you and your kind. Please read back to Shelley’s older articles, especially those that concern the evils of pornography, liberal culture, and the dangers of porn-rock.
someone hit a nerve in tristan… hummm must be the truth, i can feel the steam in his blood… good job…… of setting him straight……
You claim to support the troops but donate money to westboro baptist church who protest at soldiers funerals? how can you justify this and still call yourself a christian?
To the anonymous person who asked this question more than ten times. Please understand that STR.com raises money for good causes, such as the Republican Party and other organisations which promote conservative ideals and family-values. Last year we raised more than $7000, mostly from donations from our readers and local friends; All of this was distributed to good causes.
We occasionally recieve requests for money from churches. Westboro came to Mike for a small grant (less than $200) to help them make Bible educational posters. I really do not see what the problem is. I dont know anything about picketing soldiers funerals; As you know we are strongly pro-armed forces, and like our president we would do anything to support our veterans. Anyway, if you have a problem with our accounts, I suggest you contact Mike - he is our treasurer.
Kind Regards,
Tristan
Sorry guys, this was just dull and stupid. You need to have at least a modicum of a realistic sounding argument before you lead off into the absurd if you are really going to tease the gullible into a good argument. Either that or go completely off the deep end and claim that RMS is actually Mao Xedong (or maybe Karl Marx–check out the beard) who faked his own death and is now infiltrating the evil capitalists society and spreading subversion.
RMS is actually Mao Xedong (or maybe Karl Marx–check out the beard) who faked his own death and is now infiltrating the evil capitalists society and spreading subversion.
Please somebody explain to me why angry liberal bloggers make outlandish claims like this. I just wish liberals would read what they have written before they submit.
What you have written is just plain stupid! Do all liberals believe in these sort of conspiracy theories?
People like you remind me that the internet is SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS, additionally I would like to add that George Bush (who got less votes than President Gore) is as thick as two VERY fucking short planks of wood.
Finally
Your religious beliefs are equal in strengh to those guys who did 9/11. Your all Fanatics.
Peace, (one day, if i was prez id kill the lot of ya…. very peacefull tbh)
P.S I did it for the LoLz
Tristan, this article has the most factual errors of any I have ever read. You link to Groklaw, but you obviously haven’t gone there, or you would have seen that P.J. stands for Pamela Jones, who has a paralegal background and follows the SCO vs. IBM, SCO vs Novell, RedHat vs SCO, and other legal proceedings. She does not code any software for Linux (nor does she know how).
Errors like these and more in the other things you write make me embarassed to be a Republican.
Tristan, your ignorance is almost beyond limits.
You are all a bunch of ignorant idiots. You post nonsense. You make claims that have no basis whatsoever. You pretend to be christian but you are just a bunch of intolerent rednecks. Your pitiful country, America, is the worse failure the world has ever known. Your democracy is non-existant. Your principles are six feet under. Your people are uneducated, and poor, and kept that way by other human beings. Your country is the incarnation on earth of hell. The wretched place where humans exploit other humans. That’s why the United States of America will one day destroy itself. It will fall over it’s own right-wing capitalist weight. And I’ll be there to witness it.
Death to this right-wing America. To the others. I pity you. I feel your pain.
I agree with Abdool. Fanatical fools.
This is so completely absurd! By the way, I voted for George W. Bush, and still support him to this day. I am 100% conservative, and can’t stand liberals. I am totally patriotic. I have told (former) friends to go to hell for talking badly about my beloved America.
But guess what? I use Linux. And I’m not a communist/Marxist/socialist. I am a computer science graduate. I must tell you, that you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Are you aware that the NSA uses Linux? Don’t you feel stupid now?
And…your whole open-source argument is obviously misunderstood. The source is the programming language that the programmer uses to make the application. When you compile this code, it is converted into a binary format which the computer can interpret (zeros and ones).
Microsoft also does this when they create programs. Do you honestly think that the developers at Microsoft are authoring applications using nothing but 0s and 1s? That is what binaries are: 0s and 1s. We use the programming languages because it would be impossible to do it any other way.
Microsoft has binary executable files, usually called .exe. Similarly, Linux can use binary executables. The most common forms are .rpm and .deb, however there are many more.
I understand your ignorance, but that is no excuse for writing such idiotic things. It especially irritates me, because I am a conservative, and a Christian. I must say, you give honest people like myself a bad name. You say some really stupid things.
Like I said, the NSA uses Linux. What does that mean to you? Are you saying that the NSA is communist? The NSA actually happens to be a major player in the development of security for the Linux OS. Many other government agencies use Linux as well, including NASA and the Military, including the Air Force and the Navy. Many, many government offices and schools have been using Novell for years. Novell now also makes Linux. They own Suse. Novell is huge. So is Red Hat. These are huge when it comes to enterprise server operating systems.
Try this: type “NSA” into Google, and see what comes up. The second hit is about the NSA and Linux. Here is the link. It states in part:
Linux was chosen as the platform for this work because its growing success and open development environment provided an opportunity to demonstrate that this functionality can be successful in a mainstream operating system and, at the same time, contribute to the security of a widely used system. Additionally, the integration of these security research results into Linux may encourage additional operating system security research that may lead to additional improvement in system security.
You see, the reason people are using Linux, especially on computer systems which actually matter, is because of the stability and security it provides. Also, and equally important, since the development source is open, developers are allowed to add or subtract whatever features they deem necessary for security, usability, etc.
Have you done a bit of research? Or is this all, nothing but speculation?
This blog is a disgrace to [real] American Patriots like myself. Get a clue!
Also, Unix and *nix-based operating systems have been around for far longer than Windows. I don’t hate Microsoft. I think they make several decent applications. However, I think Windows is only good for certain environments.
I really can’t understand what you have against open-source projects, other than to speculate (playing by your rulebook) that you are misunderstanding, or are just completely oblivious to reality. Your argument is weak at best, simply because most of the so-called facts you have “presented” are completely inaccurate.
Emacs isn’t an Apple computer either. It is a cli (commandline interface) application. It can be used as a word processor, or a programming environment. Another similar application is called vi.
However, this is far from the only word processor that exists for Linux. Open Office has been around for years, and Sun Star Office (which Open Office is the open-source version of) has been around even longer. Before that even was around there was WordPerfect. Ever heard of Corel? Back in the day, they used to make a Linux distro, and an Office Suite for Linux, Windows, and Macintosh. Nowadays there is also Abiword and Kword, among many others.
Why do you fear so much, what you obviously don’t understand?
Do you like getting viruses in your Windows machine?
How about spyware?
Comparing Torvalds to Castro is beyond absurd! You are on the kook fringe! And I remind you, I am a dedicated conservative Patriot of America, and I voted for Bush!
This has to be a joke. Otherwise, you have to be the most ignorant person with a blog, on the entire Internet.
Are you aware that the most probable reason for Ballmer to call Linux “communist” is because he realizes that Microsoft is slowly but surely, losing its market-share? He has to bash his competition, otherwise they will lose their (so-called) monopoly.
Linux is not the only open-source operating system. There is also BSD. Note that Apple’s Mac OSX is based on similar UNIX code found in BSD. Is Apple also communist? Also, sun makes Solaris, which is unix-based. IBM, HP, and many other major industry companies develop unix-based operating systems.
Now, I realize that many people are communist. Probably many people who use Linux as a political statement are communist. But I can assure you, that 99.9% of people who use it, are not using it because of anything political.
Personally, I use it because it’s not only free, but in my opinion, much better than Windows XP. I have set it up for other people as well, and they ALL say the same thing. We are all using Ubuntu Linux. I can now do everything that I could do in a Windows environment and it doesn’t cost me a single penny when they release the upgrade every six months. How often does Microsoft release their OS? About every five years, at about $250.00 USD. Then in between, they issue service packs to make up for flaw after flaw of not-so-good code, that introduces a slew of security vulnerabilities.
I have nothing against Microsoft, but for me, they lost. Linux allows me to be in total control of my computer. MS does not. It is a tyranny. It barely even lets me choose between two desktop themes, for crying out loud! With Linux, I can pretty much do anything, and it improves literally nightly.
I predict that Linux will be much bigger than it is, in the near future.
Lastly, why are you comparing Linux with Microsoft Vista? Vista is not even released yet. They released it in beta, and it is so buggy, they had to push back the release, another six months.
You have no clue what you’re talking about. You truly give conservative Patriots like myself a bad name also. Your ignorance says it all. I am totally against communism, yet you are insulting me, basically calling me a communist for using Ubuntu Linux. Guess what? It’s a free country! By the way, haven’t you ever heard of Red Hat?
Do you equate free with evil? I equate communism with evil, but I certainly don’t equate Linux with communsim. That is just absolutely absurd!
Stupid Stupid Stupid!!!!!!!!!!
If you have had a million hits, why don’t you be a bit more responsible with your “research”? You sound like an absolute moron!
Why in the world, do you even equate what type of computer system you use, with your political ideology? That is so, so utterlt ignorant!
Do you listen to Rush Limbaugh? Guess what? He refuses to use Windows. He’s a Mac guy. I happen to love Rush, but I’m an Ubuntu guy. So freaking what? How does that have anything to do with my being a conservative, who votes Republican 99% of the time? It’s my personal preference.
I’m glad I found this absurd website, so I can show other people what type of idiots reside on the Internet!
Also, Linux is not a program or an application, and neither is Windows. They are both operating systems. Say it with me now: op-er-a-ting sys-tems.
Oh yeah, and your fact files gave me a really good laugh. This is hilarious:
This component is used for typing in simple commands like “dir” and “more” I will refer you to this. how many commands?
Oh yeah, there are also many desktops available for Linux, not just one, like Windows provides (or neglects to provide).
And hacker has more than one meaning. It is also means programmer. Not all hackers are crooks.
You wrote this yesterday, yet quote things about Linux from ten years ago, and compare them with Windows Vista –an operating system that is supposedly to be released sometime in the future; six moths from now –or maybe never.
Lastly, look at what an idiot you are. You are hosted on Blogger, which uses Linux and Apache (both obviously evil, by your definition of open-source) to host your blog! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
This is by far the most bizzare right-wing blog that I have ever seen before. You actually would fit in much better with the freaks at the Daily KOS! And you call yourself a right-winger. Hilarious!
I am a right-winger. You are a kook!
brentroos.com
Oh, and to the America haters, what does this have to do with Linux? I love Linux, but even more I love America!
So, you anti-American liberals can kiss my butt!
I love Ubuntu. But stop trashing my beloved country. If not for us, you’d be speaking Russian or German right now in Europe, so shut up! How about “thank you”?
Your operating system has nothing to do with your political ideology. If it does, you are a hopeless nerd. Get a date or something.
brentroos.com
” I would like to dispel many of the myths that surround the cult of Linux, with a view to exposing it’s real origins.”
Yes, finally you gonna tell the truth!!.
“Ask any Linux hacker where Linux came from”
Oh God, here comes again with a whole bunch of lies.
I’m gonna answer only the fact file, because all the article is a lie, or a middle truth.
“Fact File: What is a Kernel? This component is used for typing in simple commands like “dir” and “more”. Windows has a component called ?cmd.exe? which serves a similar purpose but comes with better commands. Windows programmers often use a modern graphical user interface in preference to a kernel, however Linux users do not have this luxuary.”
No, no, noooooo!!!, you can’t tell such a lie. This is a critical error that shows the minmal undestanding of this area. The definition you give is the (mediocre) definition of a SHELL. The kernel is more in a machine level. If here in Argentina I told that definition in my universitary exam, i’m gonna be kicked off the planet.
“Fact File: What is source code? Old computer programs were distributed as source-code on magnetic tape. This is an obsolete way to distribute software that was used before the availablity of the more convenient ?Binary? format. Even today, some programs (such as those written by GNU) are released as source code only. Perversely, this is to prevent the software from being used outside the fraternity of computer hackers.”
All program (even the Windows OS Windows Vista) was write first in source code, and all old programs was distributed in magnetic tape. Windows is distributed in binary code because give the source code of Windows is like give the coca-cola formula.
The steps are
1) Make source code
2) Compile
3) Get Binary code.
Source code is always better than binary code because you can see what exactly the program does. Use binary code is like taking pills without reading the formula, Ok, makes me feel better, but you don’t know what exactly does.
Imagine the CIA or any other institution using de ASD.exe for controling the Airplanes Radar. What if the ASD.exe sends private information to a computer in evillandia?. You never know until is to late.
“Linux has been developed by self-confessed hackers. Are these the people you want building your critical infrastructure?”
You don’t know what “hacker” word mean.
I’m tired of you lack of knowledgment. First of all, you can’t compare Linux with windows because Linux has a diffrent purpose.
Linux was made more stable and needs less resources than windows because was server designed.
It’s like compare a Elementary school teacher with College proffesor. The elementary school teacher writes with beatifull letter, make woooonderfulls blackboards. All is with color and beatifull and live in a fairy tale story, more agreable to the view, but never reaches the level of a College proffesor.
Again, if you have a Critic to linux, made with twcnical facts. Talk about inode, ext3, monolitic kernel, and no because is “beatifull”
Ikaru
Brent Roos said:”If not for us, you’d be speaking Russian or German right now in Europe, so shut up! How about “thank you”?
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Well if nor for us dumb europeans you would still be living over here in europe and the Us wouldn’t exist but would most likely be a peacefull country where they speak navaho or any other truely american language. Don’t forget you are only in power because of gross genocide and the near destruction of the native americans.
As for the claims of a christian by this blogger….. I won’t even go there. You are about as christian as osama is muslim.
The US is on a dangerous path loosing friends fast all over the world. Your agressive stands have allready driven many african countries to the chinese. Did you know they actualy do more comercial work in africa then the US does at the moment. By the time you people realize how you are alienating even close friends you will not have evn one left. This is a pitty because many of you are good people and deserve better. In cultural and sociological terms you are still a kindergarten nation and clearly still have to mature a lot. Having money and power does not make you right it just means you get to be the bulley on the schoolgrounds….not a nice place to be.
Ron
>>If not for us, you’d be speaking Russian or German right now in Europe, so shut up! How about “thank you”?
Tristan Shuddery said…
You claim to support the troops but donate money to westboro baptist church who protest at soldiers funerals? how can you justify this and still call yourself a christian?
To the anonymous person who asked this question more than ten times. Please understand that STR.com raises money for good causes, such as the Republican Party and other organisations which promote conservative ideals and family-values. Last year we raised more than $7000, mostly from donations from our readers and local friends; All of this was distributed to good causes.
We occasionally recieve requests for money from churches. Westboro came to Mike for a small grant (less than $200) to help them make Bible educational posters. I really do not see what the problem is. I dont know anything about picketing soldiers funerals; As you know we are strongly pro-armed forces, and like our president we would do anything to support our veterans. Anyway, if you have a problem with our accounts, I suggest you contact Mike - he is our treasurer.
Kind Regards,
Tristan
Well maybe you should be a bit more careful about the organisations you donate money to, if you do some research yourself or read the link I provided you will see they are anything but Christians and in my opionion anti-american. They protests at soldiers funerals, noone not even the most anti-war protester is doing that. You might be taken more seriously if you actually researched your articles and provided real proof of what you are saying. This whole thing against linux is a complete joke, you do realise that every argument you used has been debunked? Give it up and use your time more constructively to help the poor and needy in your community as a true christian would be instead of writing these hateful articles.
Haw haw, does anyone believe this? Instead of Shelley the republican she should call her self The Shallow republican :)
to Tristan and Shelley:
why dont you answer those questions ??
you are writing some opinions and ignoring the others !!!
btw, i cant wait the moment when i will meet you in heaven and ask you (both) if you still believe in these things which you are writing…
btw, can MS Windows do this ???: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7910243476273161565&q=3D+linux
Windows Vista will suck cause indians are developing it. They suck at major consumer products. LOSERS. Windows Media sucks cause it is bogged by crapy software and media player is a stupid user interface nobody likes.
Only ignorant morons at american corporations are buying Dell computers infected with windows bloatware. They look cheaper but they are damn slow. WTF. Stupid american women all dream of silicon boobs. What else to say - americans would rather build cheap planked houses than brick or concrete houses - as a result you can hear your farthest neighbour snoring at night. LOSERS.
Finally, company wide bans on sexual harassment are just ridiculously exaggerated. Women get bigger and fatter cause nobody would even think to say any pleasant word to them. I hate american women - all stupid bitches. LOSERS.
Mexicans and indians are taking over with their snanglish and other nonsense crap. Who wants to live in that barbarian culture. Never.
LOSERS. LOSERS. LOSERS.
Hi dear children. I supose you are children because of your thougts. I must apologize for my poor English, but i shoud say something about your articles about europeans. To tell the truth, i should say that i can?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•t agree you at all. I think that really few things are correct or acceptable in your articles.
As Spanish, im proud of my country. From here gone the ship which discover America. Its said that it was discovered in 1492 under the Spanish Kingdom of Isabel and Fernando, but oder no probed histories tell that America was discovered long time ago by Vasconians (North of Spain). The first conquerors were Spanish and Portuguese. The name of your continent is the name of Americo Bespucio, an Italian cartographer. English people use your Cuntry (USA) as a place where send the thiefs, murderers, traitors and rapists who weren?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•t hanged. You are the sons and dougthers of prisioners and slaves, of non first-born sons without inheritance. You are the descendants of the trash of Europe. Few good people go there looking for freedom, but someone went. You shold remember that you have less than 2 centuries of historie, and Asia and Europe has milleniums.
A hundred years old house fascinate you, but every day, i can see buildings of centuries or milleniums.You were (and in many cases you are) delinquents, and you thougt that you have the right to kill and stole the land of American Indians, the original owners of your land.