Wow. Tristan sounds just like GE.
That one's quite bad. Here's a few funny GE-type bits of stupidity (I promised not to call GE ignorant anymore):
this rugged IBM laptop I am using was designed and built by an American company
Using largely non-American parts.
It's a computer program that was initially developed in Finland as a means of circumventing valuable copyrights and patents owned by an American company called SCO Group.
It was built to get around the licensing of MINIX, which was created by a Dutch professor. That is aside from the un-established question of whether SCO actually owns the copyrights to UNIX.
a leading computer expert Steve Balmer
Steve Ballmer is not a computer expert. He is a manager in a software company.
A generation of computer users might get use to accepting foreign software hand-outs rather than paying for a superior American products.
Superior American products like SuSE and Red Hat Linux?
And guess what software Osama Bin Laden uses on his laptop? If you guessed it was Linux you would be 100% right.
What orifice did he pull that one out of? This idiot's blog is the only source for this information I could find on the 'net.
Report them to the Business Software Alliance who have the legal authority to inspect any company's computers for illegal programs like Linux.
Huh? No they don't, aside from the fact that you can't run an illegal copy of Linux.
But the BSA underscores a danger with commercial software. You may have paid full-price for 20 licenses of Windows and Office Pro, but you face a big lawsuit or settlement if you can't produce proof of purchase when the BSA comes knocking. You are assumed guilty until proven innocent. This means businesses have to add costly license compliance overhead in order to not get screwed by the BSA.
You're right, this blogger sounds just as stupid and paranoid as GE, so it could be him.