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To: Petronski

As any casual observer would already know, this board is infested with threads full of linux lies, many of which have lies in the parent articles. Witness this quick list of just the last couple of months!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1607069/posts - Lies claiming Windows only has 40% market share and VMWare kernel is linux based

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1608956/posts - Lies that Windows systems need to be rebuilt after compromise but not linux ones

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605189/posts - Lies that the Kapital program in linux has nothing to do with Karl Marx's "Das Kapital"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1604720/posts - Lies that Osama Bin Laden doesn't get a free copy of linux if he wants, and that stallman isn't a central figure in the OSS community, and that I work for Microsoft

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1601565/posts - Lies that Beowulf clusters couldn't exist without free software, and that American citizens can't have access to free software unless the chinese, cubans, russians, iranians, etc do too

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1527747/posts - Lies that open source was designed to co-exist with proprietary software, that I don't support companies that use some open source in their proprietary operating systems like Apple and Sun, that stallman doesn't oppose patents, that Microsoft shared source has the same dangers as open source, and ridiculous claims that I'm the one that whines to the moderator around here

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602047/posts - Lies that *nix can't get viruses spyware or trojans, that it's easier to setup and run linux than windows, etc

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1592292/posts - Follow up lies to the original threads that Dell is offereing linux on their desktop models when they aren't, that stallman's following is small, and of course the flamer denying he ever posts on the linux lie threads

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1592494/posts - Lies that IBM is not going to ever use Microsoft Vista but only linux

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1591595/posts - Lies that it's easy to deploy linux even though IBM can't do it themselves

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1590132/posts - Lies that most open source zealots don't approve of stallman, that our government should always use the lowest cost option even if it came from foreigners

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1591021/posts - Lies that a fully patched Windows box can be hacked by anyone in minutes

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1585665/posts - Lies that Dell is going to announce linux on home desktop computers, that I'm the one that always whines to the moderators, that the original article wasn't retracted by the author, that other articles don't indicate it's almost impossible to get a Dell desktop with linux, etc

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1584107/posts - Lies that open source doesn't equal open borders, that "copyleft" has nothing to do with politics, that open source is more capitalistic than proprietary software LOL, that n3wbi3 cared that 75% of all open source uses stallman's license, about how large linux's market share is, that the free software foundation didn't confiscate code from its users, that stallman isn't anti-capitalist and the leader of the open source movement, that Torvalds didn't do a 180 when confronted by Stallman on GPL3, etc

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1578925/posts - Lies by some foreign rag that linux is easier to manage than windows, that it's safe to go to hacker sites for your security updates, that microsoft.com doesn't almost always have longer uptime than linux companies, etc

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1573697/posts - Lies that Red Flag is based on Asianux and not Red Hat LOL, that no one in china is a communist at all which is amazing

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1573397/posts - Lies that Teddy Kennedy's various sites run on Microsoft IIS and not linux (several whoppers), about linux's market share size, etc

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1571222/posts - Lies that n3wbi3's "open source" ping list was actually open source, that free software for russia is no more dangerous than free software for germany, that it's somehow worse to sell technology to adversaries than to just give it to them for free, etc

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1568785/posts - Lies that you have to upgrade Office for legal protection, that linux and other open source provides equal legal protection to proprietary software LMAO that was funny

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1568067/posts - Lies that good eyes verses bad eyes can ever be quantified,

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1568848/posts - Lie that google is releasing a linux operating system, that Microsoft is hurting and not recording record profits, that quality of open source exceeds that of proprietary software, that Google Earth is compatible with linux, that I referred to the Cert vulnerability database as "linux" problems, that these guys don't live their lives by stallman's principles, etc




174 posted on 04/04/2006 8:30:59 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: All
This goes back to the saying "People who live in glass houses ought not to throw stones"

These are more examples of someone getting their butt kicked on Linux threads--namely by trolling and posting ridiculous baloney.

175 posted on 04/04/2006 9:28:17 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (This Space For Rent. Call 555-1212 for more info.)
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To: FLAMING DEATH; Dominic Harr; N3WBI3; ShadowAce

Document dump ping.


176 posted on 04/04/2006 10:11:03 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: Golden Eagle; All

I see you tried to make your own "Lie List". Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Unfortunately, for such a thing to work, the person making it has to be capable of telling the truth at least a little bit of the time.

I didn't get any farther than your second link (why you put the first one up is beyond me, because if anyone is reading it, they are already seeing this thread, but oh well).

"http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1608956/posts - Lies that Windows systems need to be rebuilt after compromise but not linux ones "

First off, posting a link to an article doesn't constitute a lie. Zeugma posted the article and made a comment to the effect that formatting and reinstalling was "the Microsoft way". Here's a quote from the particular article he cited:

"When you are dealing with rootkits and some advanced spyware programs, the only solution is to rebuild from scratch. In some cases, there really is no way to recover without nuking the systems from orbit," --Mike Danseglio, program manager in the Security Solutions group at Microsoft

So, here we have an employee from Security Solutions at Microsoft saying, "the only solution is to rebuild from scratch". So, a witty comment that suggests formatting and reinstalling is "the Microsoft way" is entirely appropriate, since they themselves advocate this. Zeugma's staement was comedic hyperbole, sarcasm, etc., call it what you will, but he but he never intended for anyone to take his statement as a fact. But, upon seeing it, you had to turn it into something it wasn't so you could argue against it. The very definition of "troll".

The second part of the statement said that someone claimed Linux systems never need to be rebuilt after compromise. I searched and searched the thread and never found anyone claim this, so we can say this is an outright fabrication.

In other words, GE, the very second post on your "lie list" is, in itself, a lie. Great work.


183 posted on 04/05/2006 5:37:58 AM PDT by FLAMING DEATH
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