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Posted on 04/19/2007 7:46:32 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Do Gates or Jobs have websites soliciting donations for the green party, and attacking Bush and Republicans? Not that I know of, but “the father of free software” does, www.stallman.org.
You got it, but be mindful hes going to try and pull you into a debate which has nothing to do with this thread because of your post to me..
Good general rule: don’t feed the trolls.
Great advice: never feed THAT troll.
lol!
It’s not a troll to point out green party leftists like Stallman, or strange foreign products like Ubuntu.
I do. But things are alot different now than they were a few years ago. Linux has come along way, and our group is a heck of a lot larger now.
If you use a computer, apparently you’re a lib.
GE seems to think that if you run linux, you have a communist in your computer.
The dirty little secret is that both Gates and Jobs are also leftists, and apparently so is Scott McNealy.(with all of the GPLing that Sun is doing these days)
So no matter what you run, you’ve got a communist in your box.
thread jester :-P
*shrug* I always recommend Red Hat.
uh oh, you’ve let the facts out of the bag!
^^^^^^^^^Gates and Jobs are nowhere as leftist as Stallman^^^^^^^^^^^^
A leftist is a leftist.
A tiger is a tiger.
LOL!
At first I doubted the truth of this, but when I saw a link to Michael Dell’s blog and the fact that he has Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on a Dell notebook, I had to change my mind.
If Dell really wants to do the Linux community a favor, it won’t just sell machines with some flavor of Linux. It will sell those Linux machines with the Linux bios.
But, and I cringe when I write this, GE is right about one thing. There are some real zealots in the open source movement. Not everyone is as whacked out as Stellman, but some are.
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^^^^^^^^^^^There are some real zealots in the open source movement. Not everyone is as whacked out as Stellman, but some are.^^^^^^^^^^
Ehhh............
GE is right like the liberal media is right. There’s always some left out fact, or whatever fact that’s being touted as applying toward one group really applies to everybody.
There’s zealots in all the major camps, Steve Jobs for example is known for being a major control freak, and it shows big time in his products. And not just up high. 6 months before apple announced the switch to intel processors, had you gone to the mac-forums.com website and posted about how apple needed to switch to intel based processors this is what you’d have gotten.
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Ridiculous, you’re not fooling anyone with your faux conservatism. Gates has given to Republican offices accross the country including to Bush’s re-election campaign. Meanwhile your buddy Stallman is a green party activist that solicits donations for them and spreads leftist propoganda from his own site daily.
To claim the two are equivalent show how far out your thinking is, Stallman is the acknowledged “father of free software”, owns more copyright on more Linux code than anyone and posts some of the most vile leftist thoughts on the internet. Here’s a sample from the last few days.
http://www.stallman.org/archives/2007-jan-apr.html
20 April 2007 (Preferring the Taliban)
In Kandahar, ordinary citizens prefer the Taliban to NATO for simple safety. They might be happy with a strong secular government too, but they don’t see any possibility of that.
19 April 2007 (US marines seize journalists’ camera)
After US marines in Afghanistan wantonly killed civilians, they seized journalists’ cameras to cover it up. The US government continues to defend their destruction of evidence.
19 April 2007 (Press photographer imprisoned in Iraq)
Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein has been imprisoned for a year by the Bush forces in Iraq, with no charges filed.
19 April 2007 (Bush regime trying to disinform internet)
The Bush regime has turned disinformation through the mainstream meda into a weapon, and the world has become aware of this. Now it is trying to disinform the Internet as well.
19 April 2007 (Republican Congressman left the party)
Former Republican Congressman McCloskey left the party, saying “A pox on their values”, and became a Democrat.
18 April 2007 (Turn Baghdad into a semi-prison)
Bush plans to turn Baghdad into a semi-prison to end the violence (and the resistance). It is not likely to work.
16 April 2007 (Law that violates the Roe v Wade)
A federal law that violates the Roe v Wade decision by prohibiting abortions in many circumstances will soon be considered by the Supreme Court. Bush’s appointees there were most likely chosen for their willingness to take away abortion rights.
16 April 2007 (Article in a major Canadian newspaper)
An article in a major Canadian newspaper denounces the US “war on terror” as a fraud for stealing oil, and says Canada should pull out of it.
16 April 2007 (No grounds for rejecting)
Why Israel has no grounds for rejecting the Arab peace offer.
16 April 2007 (Attack every day)
Israeli soldiers attack Jenin refugee camp every day, just to be cruel.
16 April 2007 (Suicide bomber)
A suicide bomber attacked the Iraqi parliament, having penetrated 8 lines of Bush forces security checkpoints. It is a dramatic indication that Bush’s troop increase has failed to crush the resistance.
16 April 2007 (School for theocratic Christians)
Bush has systematically appointed the graduates of a school for theocratic Christians, many of whom are incompetent or dishonest.
6 April 2007 (Prisoner treatment)
How did Iran treat its British prisoners? Some of the ex-prisoners describe treatment that is rather nasty, though not as bad as what Bush does.
16 April 2007 (Prosecutor firings)
The prosecutor firings was part of a scheme to cover up Bush’s rigging of elections by distraction.
Bill Gates is not a conservative. Neither is Jobs.
A leftist is a leftist.
A tiger is a tiger.
That’s it.
ROFL, once again you have nothing but rhetoric in defense of leftists. Show any statements by Jobs or Gates in their entire life that are as radical as those posted by Stallman to his website in just the last week.
I’ll tell ya...I use Mepis, which has mostly Ubuntu underpinnings...and I installed Ubuntu for about a week as well at one time. I keep coming back to Mepis...has excellent compatibility with Ubuntu, but is, in my opinion, MUCH easier to use.
I’m hoping this is the future of Linux...one or two systems will emerge as a quasi-standard and lots of other systems will spring up based on it, but they will all be mostly compatible with one another. It might be Ubuntu, or it might be some other system, but as that happens, it will become easier for the average user to adopt Linux, because there will be a sort of standardization (I don’t want full standardization on a single system. Think of the advantage of having systems that are, or can be, custom tailored to fit a specific set of needs, yet, at the core level, are compatible with most other systems).
Think about it...Mepis, Mint, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu, UCE, Ubuntu Lite, Linspire, and a bunch of others all running on a common core, and users all able to install software from a common repository; there’s a bunch of software out there for Ubuntu right now, and as a Mepis user, I enjoy the benefits of this wide availability and easy compatibility of software. Any package that says “dapper” in the name will run on my system, and there’s boatloads of it out there. Most of the time, anything that applies to Ubuntu also applies to Mepis, including updates, support, and everything else. That’s pretty cool.
At first, I was skeptical about Mepis switching to the Ubuntu core, but in retrospect, I think it was the smartest thing they could have done. Ubuntu now does Debian far better than Debian itself.
You brought that up before. Your spin has already been proven absolutely false. Yet you continue to bring it up. TROLL. And a dishonest one at that.
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