Comment Re:Why not Native VLIW Linux on Crusoe? (Score 1) 704
I don't know if this truly is you Bob, it's hard to tell on Slashdot, even if you don't have a . at the end of your name.
What I'm angry about is your piss poor journalism tactics. You seem to have this huge disdain for the so called Linux community without ever providing a true basis for why. You then proceed to talk about how you expected to get all the angry responses you often get to your articles - I seem to remember calling people who expected such things "trolls" back in my usenet days.
You comment about the linux zealots and how if they even hear the mention of Microsoft they go off, and how silly this is. Yet you do the exact same thing, albeit from the other side of the fence. The only difference is that due to your past, somebody hired you to air your dirty laundry on infoworld.com.
Here's the email I sent you. I doubt you honestly read all the email you get, so maybe you'll notice it here, by some chance.
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I'm not sure if you're familiar with the marmoset, but they're a small furry clawed monkey which inhabits the various tropical forests of the two Americas. One thing I admire about these small animals is that they don't have the inane elitism or bias of a human. I'm afraid you making yourself look like a monkey does these little fellows a great injustice.
You may not read much further than that, or you may not even read your email at all, I'm not sure, but I'll elaborate anyway.
I'm an ex-Linux-zealot. If somebody mentioned "Microsoft" in any capacity, or was to mention something negative about OSS, Linux, et al, I would flip and make it a personal mission to do them in. I gave up that hat and looked at myself and others like myself from afar a few short weeks ago. I realized what fools we were making of ourselves, and that it was entirely senseless. Anybody who makes a religion out of a computer software paradigm or operating system is in need of some mental readjustment.
Don't seek out a pyschiatrist just yet, there's still hope for you. I'm appreciative of the lesson you've taught us; that even those who have been given pedestals at some point due to a great invention (such as ethernet) are not above anybody else, and can succumb to the same idiotic tendencies we all do.
I refer to your senseless abuse of the open source community at every chance you get, without a care for looking at these stories as a good journalist might. That being without bias and with the abilty to see both sides of an issue.
What is your problem with OSS? Does it frighten you in some inexplicable and unexplainable way?
You state in your article, "May the best software win". I rebut, may all software have its day in the limelight and contribute to the advancement of future software as a whole, be it for the expansion of the Microsoft empire, or for the so-called Linux community.
You whine about how the new Crusoe processor will run *gasp* Windows. Well gosh Bob, Intel runs *gasp* Linux. They must be anti-microsoft! Why don't you slam them for that? You whine about how Linus works for Transmeta, yet the software morphing built into the chips will not be open source. I don't know what employee roster you've been reading, but as far as I can tell, what you state in your article is true: Linus is merely an employee, a programmer there. He does not control what happens to the code they produce. Are OSS pundits not allowed to make a living in the proprietary world according to you?
Don't get me wrong, I have a lot to complain about the Linux so called community, and their hypocrisy, which can be seen almost daily in it's slow and steady climb. Nonetheless, I also have problems with anybody on either side of the fence who writes with their head in the ground, much like an ostrich might be found.
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What I'm angry about is your piss poor journalism tactics. You seem to have this huge disdain for the so called Linux community without ever providing a true basis for why. You then proceed to talk about how you expected to get all the angry responses you often get to your articles - I seem to remember calling people who expected such things "trolls" back in my usenet days.
You comment about the linux zealots and how if they even hear the mention of Microsoft they go off, and how silly this is. Yet you do the exact same thing, albeit from the other side of the fence. The only difference is that due to your past, somebody hired you to air your dirty laundry on infoworld.com.
Here's the email I sent you. I doubt you honestly read all the email you get, so maybe you'll notice it here, by some chance.
---[Begin]---
I'm not sure if you're familiar with the marmoset, but they're a small furry clawed monkey which inhabits the various tropical forests of the two Americas. One thing I admire about these small animals is that they don't have the inane elitism or bias of a human. I'm afraid you making yourself look like a monkey does these little fellows a great injustice.
You may not read much further than that, or you may not even read your email at all, I'm not sure, but I'll elaborate anyway.
I'm an ex-Linux-zealot. If somebody mentioned "Microsoft" in any capacity, or was to mention something negative about OSS, Linux, et al, I would flip and make it a personal mission to do them in. I gave up that hat and looked at myself and others like myself from afar a few short weeks ago. I realized what fools we were making of ourselves, and that it was entirely senseless. Anybody who makes a religion out of a computer software paradigm or operating system is in need of some mental readjustment.
Don't seek out a pyschiatrist just yet, there's still hope for you. I'm appreciative of the lesson you've taught us; that even those who have been given pedestals at some point due to a great invention (such as ethernet) are not above anybody else, and can succumb to the same idiotic tendencies we all do.
I refer to your senseless abuse of the open source community at every chance you get, without a care for looking at these stories as a good journalist might. That being without bias and with the abilty to see both sides of an issue.
What is your problem with OSS? Does it frighten you in some inexplicable and unexplainable way?
You state in your article, "May the best software win". I rebut, may all software have its day in the limelight and contribute to the advancement of future software as a whole, be it for the expansion of the Microsoft empire, or for the so-called Linux community.
You whine about how the new Crusoe processor will run *gasp* Windows. Well gosh Bob, Intel runs *gasp* Linux. They must be anti-microsoft! Why don't you slam them for that? You whine about how Linus works for Transmeta, yet the software morphing built into the chips will not be open source. I don't know what employee roster you've been reading, but as far as I can tell, what you state in your article is true: Linus is merely an employee, a programmer there. He does not control what happens to the code they produce. Are OSS pundits not allowed to make a living in the proprietary world according to you?
Don't get me wrong, I have a lot to complain about the Linux so called community, and their hypocrisy, which can be seen almost daily in it's slow and steady climb. Nonetheless, I also have problems with anybody on either side of the fence who writes with their head in the ground, much like an ostrich might be found.
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