Posted on 12/16/2003 3:52:09 PM PST by Golden Eagle
World Socialist Web Site: Renewed attack on open source software
Internatinal Herald Tribune: Open-source software gets boost at UN
Australian Age: Labor, Democrats to participate in Open Source conference
What do you mean by that?
Did you not read the article? Some of the Linux crowd is simply fanatical about Linux, bordering on (equaling?) religious obsessiveness. Which is generally not denied by anyone, except by those that are active members of "the community".
You see, Goldilocks, this is how we know you're not really a Freeper. This same article has, for all practical purposes, been written about us. More than once.
Yes, we are obsessive Clinton haters. We have made threats against his life. We have used profanity in association with his name. We have done all this stuff, for pretty much the same reason (moral outrage), and been written about in very much the same way.
Yes, here is Brenda Hoo-hah, 35-year-old mother of 5, who has actually stood on street cornwer and waved signs at passersby. She is that fanatical about Clinton, and about his evil, and about getting rid of him.
And all across the Internet, there are more just like her.
I even got quoted in one of those articles. It was in the Dallas Morning News. At some point I seem to have said that I would not personally resort to violence, you understand, but that if Clinton was to run into someone who would, I might buy a round for the house.
Well. Aren't I the fanatic. Another Internet hatester, trading paranoid conspiracy theories about Clinton being mixed up with some bimbo, as if there was anything to that story.
I tell ya Buzzard, as a hit piece, this might have played better somewhere else. The media doesn't like Freepers very much either, and they have written this same story about us so many times that we can see right through it.
You have "Hale-Boppers" in just about any large group.
I don't have a dog in this Linex/Windows fight but something funny happened to my IE6 and maybe one of you guys can help me out.
I'm running XP Home Version and (probably after a recent update) I noticed that I no longer have a bottom border on my browser.
You know....the one that when you slide your mouse over a link, it shows the address or gives a progress bar after clicking.
I have been in Internet Tools....I have gone to defaults....I have right clicked on the task bar...rebooted etc...and nothing I do seems to bring that bottom border back.
Anyone got any ideas?
TIA
Integrity.
That's what she's lacking.
Nope, not at all, I said generally speaking but as the author indicated there are some real fanatics behind the Linux movement. It's time they be pointed out, and if there are some within the movement who would like to legitimize it they need to speak out and take control.
Death threats, denial of service attacks, openly stating they will never pay a dime for Linux even if it contains stolen property, these are outlandish tactics and should be rebuked by those within the movement that know better. It's very similar to expecting Muslims to eventually rebuke terrorist attacks, else all Muslims be condemed.
Bless you....that brought it back!
Obviously, but there are many Linux supporters who will openly cheer that answer. They will actually think it is a funny and respectable response. Of course they're techies, and may not know any better, but this is the big stage they're on now, and some just don't fit in well.
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