Funny Link Bait
This must be the the funniest piece of link bait I have read in a while - almost everything in it is designed to offend FOSS and LINUX advocates and get them seething and whining.
These are just a few of the insane highlights - I recommend anyone to go and read Linux: A European threat to our computers
Like most things that are worth owning, Computers are an American invention. Look at any modern computer and you will see that the whole thing is the product of American brilliance.
Best not to mention those English pionerers, Babbage and Turing, nor the early experiments with computers at Manchester and Cambridge universities. It also managed to neatly ignore the fact that most of the silicon chips that power these computers are made in China, Taiwan and other places.
Nice opening sentence that gives a flavour of things to come - should have blood pressure levels rising among Linux advocates already.
I’m talking about a project called ‘Linux’, something you may not have encountered, but might do some day.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.
What a great troll - pure flamebait. Claiming the only reason Linux was invented was to circumvent copyright should have the Linux advocates apopleptic with rage - but there is more.
This would be certainly true were in not for the Linux project’s seductive Marxist ideology and the effect that it has on ‘Blue-State’ liberals. Indeed, Linux is so pervasive amongst the blue states and many liberal universities that a leading computer expert Steve Balmer (from Microsoft) described Linux as cancer.
Not content with enraging Linux advocates with selective FUD - the next step is to brand Linux "Marxist" software used by "liberal universities".
If Linux advocates were apopleptic before - they should be frothing at the mouth by now.
And guess what software Osama Bin Laden uses on his laptop?
If you guessed it was Linux you would be 100% right. Osama uses Linux because he knows designed to counterfit DVDs, curcumventing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and defraud companies like Disney.
Next time somebody asks you how Al Queda agents pay for their rifles and rocket launchers, you can tell them that foreign hackers make software called Linux which helps them steal from Americans.
Having applied the "Marxist" smear to Linux - its now time to play the "War on Terror" card.
Yes folks - 9/11 was all your fault because Osama Bin Laden uses Linux to watch Disney movies and you use Linux too.
By now the Linux crowd should be rioting in the streets, burning images of the author, and issuing fatwas demanding that the author recant or die ...
If you see a company using Linux, it may be that they have not paid for this software. Report them to the Business Software Alliance who have the legal authority to inspect any company’s computers for illegal programs like Linux.
This is a masterpiece of FUD - trying to suggest you report people using free software to the BSA because they have not paid for it. Brilliant!!
Finally, remember to include Linux users in your prayers tonight. As individuals we may not be able to change people’s minds, but the Bible teaches that God can make any sinner repent.
You'd think the author had laid it on so thick that even the slowest wits amongst us would have caught on and set their irony filters to maximum - but this is hilarious.
Apparently Linux user are sinners - therefore they must be in league with the devil and we should pray really, really hard to save their souls from hell
This is so funny - but wait until you read the comments - I just hope the poor guys server (Linux, Wordpress, MySql & PHP) can take the load from dishing out the ever growing file.
Great bit of link bait, gets my digg and gets an extra link on my blog - what more can a piece of link bait ask for?
Tags: linux, windows, foss, oss, link bait, irony
Comments
Y'all just go ahead and laugh and sneer but American saved your butts more than once. We've had five terror free years in the US. How many have y'all had?
God is Love!
Posted by: billy bob | October 15, 2006 8:20 PM
Typical leftard - you can make jokes about our article, but you have failed to address any of the substantial issues. You ultra-leftist linuxers are all the same.
Posted by: Tristan J. Shuddery | October 15, 2006 9:15 PM
Look - you American Digital Imperialists all promote Windows like it was handed down on stone slabs to Moses - but we know the truth!
It is quite obvious - for the following reasons - that Windows is nothing more than a Running-Dog-Capitalist-Plot that offers nothing more than a cosmetic adherence to the rule of the "One and True Operating System" which has cunningly been disguised as "enhancements" in order to trap more innocent users in an evil hegemonic empire.
But we are not falling for it - lets address these so called "enhancements" one by one:
i) "Windows" - honestly what was wrong with the system where you use the function keys to have lots of windows open. If you can't keep track of them - then do what I do and place little post-it notes on each function key to remind me which window is which - it's much easier.
ii) "Icons" - just an excuse to hide the fact that underneath all the glitz there is a real program to be run and not a picture. It is quite obvious that the use of "icons" is an attempt to capture the lowest common denominator by writing an "operating system" designed for illiterates who can't spell. We are not fooled by this and will continue to call our commands like their properly spelt names - like uniq.
iii) "Mice" - without any of these so called "enhancements" there would be no need for an unnatural device that only helped to fill RSI medical insurance companies pockets .. I rest my case.
iv) "Pointers" - without any of the subtle propaganda that little "pointer" would not be necessary. Note that the Evil Capitalist Empire has made the normal "pointer" very boring - and then allow so called "enhancements" to make it interesting - an obvious expression of Totalitarian Hegomonic power as has ever been seen.
How do I know this? Because I was taught the TRUE SECRETS of the EVIL EMPIRE.
I KNOW that underneath the hood of all this flash and glitz there lurks a real "command line" (I hesitate to use the word "shell") which is a HIDDEN MICROSOFT secret.
After learning about the HIDDEN MICROSOFT shell I tested it and cam to some conclusions:
i) DIR - why not use "ls" - its much shorter and more intuitive (unless I hit the "1" or the "5" key by mistake.
ii) TYPE - surely "cat" is shorter and much more mnemonic ...
iii) DELTREE vs "rm -rf" - not only is it shorter and more succint but it is also shorter and more succinct - beat that!!
I could go on - but it is pointless trying to explain why Windows is like putting lipstick on a pig to make it more handsome to the Running Dog Lackeys of the Evil Hegemonic Empire.
Posted by: drk | October 17, 2006 7:30 PM