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Like all the greatest American engineering, it’s an example of innovation that makes a growing group of European and Chinese hackers jealous. They hate our lead in computing technology and will stop at nothing until they have control of all of our computers. 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. Unlike Windows, which is a mature commercial product which is normally included with every new computer, Linux is given away. Now it may not sound like much of a problem, after all there is very little profit in merely giving a product away. 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. The American software industry is worth more than $7 Billion; Introducing a foreign product like Linux which is often copied for free could threaten that entire industry. A generation of computer users might get use to accepting foreign software hand-outs rather than paying for a superior American products. If only the danger were just to our economy: These days computers control everything from TV stations to battleships; Our crucial information and defense infrastructure is built on computer technology. If we allow this cancer into our networks, there is no knowing what the effect might be on our infrastructure, but that is just what liberals are trying to do. Imagine if the State of the Union address were hacked because the TV station decided to save money by using Linux? Imagine if a stealth-bomber crashed because it’s software was written by anonymous Chinese or European hackers. It would make as much sense as inviting the French to come over and take over the White-House. 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. This Linux problem is a growing issue, and one that conservative Americans cannot afford to ignore. Fortunately Microsoft have prepared a great deal of information to help computer users get away from this menace. But there is something you can do to help keep American #1 in the computer business: If one of your friends is using Linux or may be tempted to try it show them this article. Explain that Linux is a genuine threat and that by using it they may be opening their computer to Chinese hackers. 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. 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. Tristan 747 Comments so far Shelley April 20th, 2006 1:23 am Hi Tristan. Thanks for your article. I agree once again. The name alone (LINUX) sounds kind of queer to me! It’s just some primitive European substitute for a real operation system like the mighty Windows XP. Also I would like to mention that Apple’s ‘Mac Os X’ is a real threat, too. This damn extrem leftwing company is giving millions to the democ-rats!!! Also I suspect that this Mac OS is sending personal information to Apple and other communist companies and organizations! Kindest of regards, Shelley Tristan Shuddery April 20th, 2006 3:49 am Thanks for posting my article Shelley; I submitted this to the mainstream IT press, but none of them wanted to know. It’s shocking to learn that the same liberal bias that infects mainstream news-sources also affects the technical press. Yes, Linux is a primative European clone; It is much less capable than Windows. In fact it omits features that were standard in Windows back in 1998; For example Linux has no built-in anti-virus or anti-spyware software. You cannot even buy popular utilities like Norton Security to compensate for this fact. There are no tools for common tasks like defragging a hard disk. God knows what you would use to send a fax or make a website. You cannot even get Front Page for Linux. Linux is that bad; The only explaination I can think for people using it is that it by-passes the protection given by American companies and the Dept of Homeland Security. It should be considered a terrorist program. Tristan rj April 22nd, 2006 11:05 pm You guys are just too much! You can’t possibly be this ignorant. 1. Windows did not have ‘built-in’ anti-virus or anti-spyware software in 1998. It still doesn’t have ‘built-in’ anti-virus, and the anti-spyware is in beta. It didn’t even have a ‘built-in’ firewall in 1998, and the present firewall is not one of the best out there (which is why Symantec and McAfee and Zone are doing such good business). 2. Most of the internet runs on Linux. It’s generally more stable than Windows, and problems are fixed more quickly. What a great troll, though. Shelley April 23rd, 2006 1:23 am Tristan, I believe you! This rj guy is probably a typical liberal liar. Most of the internet is running on linux? Don’t make me laugh!!! I used linux once. It’s terrible. Shelley April 25th, 2006 1:19 am No way. Blogger.com is hosting on Windows!!! I would not host my website on Linux either. It’s disgusting. rj April 25th, 2006 3:30 pm Blogger.com is run by Google. “What operating system (OS) does the Google Search Appliance run on? The Google Search Appliance is based on the same software that is used in Google’s datacenters. The operating system is a hardened version of Linux that is optimized for search, sometimes referred to as Google Linux.” Google Enterprise Solutions “Google quickly outgrew the confines of its Menlo Park home, and by February 1999 had moved to an office on University Avenue in Palo Alto. At eight employees, Google’s staff had nearly tripled, and the service was answering more than 500,000 queries per day. Interest in the company had grown as well. Red Hat signed on as its first commercial search customer, drawn in part by Google’s commitment to running its servers on the open source operating system Linux.” Google Corporate Information Eric Hermechales April 26th, 2006 2:55 am Well, this is widely know that google is trying to compete with Microsoft, so since they cannot develop their system by themself, they had to use this kind of anti american alliance ( and use a lot of computer to achieve the same quality of search given by msn with a inferior os ). Remember that google is also helping china and their anti democratic governement. And I must also add that the link of terrorism and linux is not even hidden, if you take a look at website like this one : http://plf.zarb.org/about.php Linux is just a anarchist invention aiming at bringing chaos and death everywhere in the world. I am still amazed to see that no one is able to see the truth in their games. mandie April 26th, 2006 4:19 am http://toolbar.netcraft.com/netblock?q=GOOGLE-2,66.102.0.0,66.102.15.255 again to show don’t know without knowing google is on linux server and it’s work fine , and google is a big company who makes lot of great thinks, again all linux os aren’t free, i know poeple who work in one os company and they are paid and they proud to work they just have a community mind they want all people in the world can make software being better it permit to have software in some regional language (a part of history for people who use it) it produce lot of software forpeople with handicap , they can easilly use computer with it it’s just an alternative, it will permit concurence microsoft isn’t very innovating now because there’s a monnopolistic market in OS i can think people who are proud of american way of life can be against such of innovation. mandie April 26th, 2006 4:38 am i hope you won’t forsake blogger for it Anonymous April 26th, 2006 6:06 am too bad ShelleyTheRepublican.com blogs is hosted on linux as shown by the nmap port scanner. # nmap -O shelleytherepublican.com … Running: Linux 2.4.X|2.5.X, D-Link embedded OS details: Linux 2.4.0 - 2.5.20, Linux 2.4.18 - 2.4.20, Linux 2.4.26, Linux 2.4.27 or D-Link DSL-500T (running linux 2.4) Time to put your acts where your words are and find a linux-free hosting solution. Shelley April 26th, 2006 6:15 am Sorry, I think you are a liar. Me and linux hosting? Never! Eric Hermechales April 26th, 2006 7:51 am Using russian hacker tools is not really a proof, more ever if this is a Linux tool made by anarchists. And even if there is no bias, it would still not be a proof, since it could be a trap, isn’t deceipt the main technic of hacking , as the book of the great hacker Kevin Mitnick is called “the art of deception” ? You will also note that Mitnick, being a real hacker, never worked to improve such anti american system as Linux, and he helped usa to be more protected against foreign threat such as chinese and russian hackers by testing the various security system. The main problem were du to people not enough wary, such useless people should be fired for their incompetence at least in the governement. cedric April 26th, 2006 7:58 am >Most of the internet is running on linux? >Don’t make me laugh!!! You make me laugh… GNU/Linux and *BSD are the most used OS for servers… It’s a reallity… And try to understand what is free (freedom) software before posting on you blog… Gasolinux April 26th, 2006 8:25 am Linux is nothing special in my opinion, just one more branch of the Unix family which is quite vast… saying that all those operating systems are useless and threats just because of Microsoft is a foolish statement that no one should even be allowed. IT press didn’t want to show such article ? There has to be a good a reason! Linux has earned respect of the industry. It might be buggy (the question of stability can be discussed a lot, depending of how the benchmarks are being done), but so is Windows. And in term of productivity, it has good tools, which have been tested. I’ve learned, thanks to some people here, that Google search runs on Linux (I thought they were using FreeBSDs). So just as someone said, GNU/Linux and BSD are the most powerful operating systems for all servers, and even your Internet Services Provider use them, and I’m sure to not be wrong on this point! And Mac OS X being a threat, Apple being communist… Jesus Christ, this can’t be even possible! I mean, let’s not destroy the image of the country by saying such silliness. Apple, Microsoft are american companies, full stop. They are contributing to improve the image of the US. Linux and all the other unixes are offering competition to microsoft, in a very good way, and they have a different approach of the problem. Which is good. I mean, very seriously… the day someone at Microsoft created what they called the “Registery”, he must have smoked something… ;-) Hope you will accept those comments and reconsider your opinion. Being a patriotist is really great. After all, it’s better than never being able to look further than your own belly. However, being narrow minded can be fatal. Anonymous April 26th, 2006 8:29 am I think you make a enormous mistake. Why the Linux is more on 75% server? NB : did you work for M. Bush? NB : sorry for my English. Coke April 26th, 2006 8:29 am Please tell me that’s a Fake ! I didn’t think that such blindness still existed… Do you have any idea of how Open Source compagnies work ? How they manage to make profit ? AND pay taxes ? Because the biggest companies based on GNU/Linux are American, RedHat, Google for example, and they earn a lot of money. When you see some communism, I see a new model of economy where the benefits are made out of services (with a higher quality) rather than out of a product full of bugs that will never be corrected. I will avoid to talk about liberalism, competition, protectionnism, monopole… because you will say that I am an anti-american, maybe a terrorist ? No, I’ve been using a Linux at home for 2 years, and I find it much better than a Windows. Anonymous April 26th, 2006 9:25 am Wow this is either a really great troll, or you must really be pretty dumb. Bleachin April 26th, 2006 9:54 am Funny I though Babbage invented the computer, dont think he even went to America, let alone was American. I read that far then realised that it must all be a joke :) Tristan Shuddery April 26th, 2006 10:16 am Isnt that typical of Linux users? In your mind you have already taken over the world! If you had bothered to check Google’s downloads pages you would see that they do not offer a single Linux download. Indeed, if Blogger.com were using Linux I have no idea how they might have done it? I understand that you cannot get most popular web-site building tools (e.g Frontpage, Dreamweaver) for Linux. Wouldnt it be a far more credible if they (like everybody else) just used Windows. I know the red-army to help design nuclear missiles for Iran; but would you really want to use Linix if you could get an affordable professional product like Microsoft Windows? Muhamad Da Nuke April 26th, 2006 10:19 am You moron. Linux is based on Unix which is the best American invention ever. Please educate yourself on this before you talk such nonsense. Below is a tip for you to start your research: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ken/ Chisel Wright April 26th, 2006 10:35 am Tristan’s article is a joke, right? Anonymous April 26th, 2006 10:49 am Incredible - you can’t be serious. Your all American IBM computer you’re so proud of was assembled in Malaysia using out-sourced parts made in China and Taiwan by foreign companies. Linux was not a deliberate attempt to… oh forget it. You should stick to denying global warming, trampling everyone’s civil rights, stealing everyone else’s oil and bombing the crap out of countries that haven’t sent the White House a Christmas card in 10 years. Kjetil T. April 26th, 2006 11:07 am The truth is out there! Gerald Holmes has tried to tell the world how the longhairs are a threat to the American way of life for years, only gaining ridicule for his efforts. Anonymous April 26th, 2006 11:42 am Hmmm…you are clearly insane. And have next-to-no knowledge of the history of computing. Still, I expect writing and publishing this sort of rubbish keeps you busy. Anonymous April 26th, 2006 11:47 am I totally agree with this article! Osama uses LINUX to spread mayhem in United States?! Excellent, one more reason to use and develope LINUX! Now everyone get your daily dose of LINUX and make this world a better place! Down Bush, long live Marx! Anonymous April 26th, 2006 11:57 am I take it that this is a satire and as such it is very funny, nevertheless I would like to point out that computers are a British invention. Charles Babbage designed the first modern computer in the 1840s (yes, that’s eighteen fourties, about 160 years ago) and Collossus was the first electronic computer built by Britain in 1942, well before ENIAC. Even the Germans could lay claim to having invented the computer before the Americans as their electro-mechanical computers called Zuse Z1, Z2 and Z3 date back to the 1930s. President Leechman April 26th, 2006 12:03 pm Shhh… don’t let on that Microsoft is using free UNIX components in Windows and even distributing this open source free operating stuff too! They’ve got a version that runs under the NET kernel, and you can get your own Microsoft-brand communism from http://microsoft.com/sfu … A Druid April 26th, 2006 12:24 pm Liberal Liars. Hmmmm, this is very interesting to me. Anarchist, and Destruction, and Fomentation of world wide Chaos are hardly things I think of when I look at Linux. netcraft’s population data is verifiable. Apache rules the market in Webserver share. It has for a number of years. Actually…Vista sounds kinda queer to me. And really, when a free product out performs a proprietary product, I have to wonder just how go the proprietary product is. Vista: An American Threat to national Security. How many times has a windows machine died because of viral infection? 1000s of times. yeah, thats really secure and really Enterprise level proven. Ubuntu is for Humans….and its for Human being, not just White Anglo Saxon Protestants Racially unequal people that dont like anyone but themselves. Rob April 26th, 2006 12:32 pm My god this column is so funny you guys must be a really ironic commedy act. We europeans thought you did not know the meaning of ironic; but, you are proof that is just a tired old streotype. Do not forget that Windows nowincorportates some code taken from projects like Linux and BSD that are free. Anonymous April 26th, 2006 12:32 pm an european… mandie April 26th, 2006 12:53 pm some are saying that this blog is a fake , but if it’s not like i’m thinking you shoukld see that linux haven’t any problems with hackers like windows always have no linux user have antivirus , there’s no linux antivirus , because there’s no virus microsoft is buying his product full of bugs and try to repair before , and it’s never enough the linux os are update everyday freely on the internet , so it’s always sure…. Anonymous April 26th, 2006 12:54 pm Oh my dear Shelley, what have you done?! A very good article, ruined by one Marxist flaw! You have exercised your communist rights by using the Tux-logo (doesn’t he look like a Demon from Satan?) for free!. I wonder who originally drew it, and with what software… By the way - if you promise to pass a law that outlaws Linux from the Great US of A, I promise to vote for you for ever! SLayeRDK April 26th, 2006 1:06 pm This is to funny, being serious or not its just madness, BSOD rules so much because its american ;). Kuso Baka April 26th, 2006 1:08 pm LINUX is an invention of a guy from Finland. It is based on UNIX. Linux name comes from developers name (Linus Torvalds) and UNIX backwards. (Linus is not usual name in Finland) Finland is also homeland of Sauna and Nokia cellphones. This article really has reinforced my opinion of stupidity of people. You just have wanted to bring out your opinion and haven’t done any background research over this, and mostly based it on some propaganda from other software manufacturers. This is either really bad joke or you really should check few things before publicly humiliaiting yourself. Anonymous April 26th, 2006 1:12 pm Thanks for the entertainment value Shelley. I had to check the rest of your blog to see if this was for real or a satire (and to be quite honest I’m still not sure). And yes, you are being hosted on a Linux server. Eric Hermechales April 26th, 2006 1:15 pm netcraft is obviously lying. I wanted to check what was running for some european institution such as the council of europe. Let’s take a look at the website : http://www.coe.int/. The url show us they run asp code, the page enconding say “windows-1252″, and if we take a look at the source code of some page, we can see stuff like this “MS sans serif” and href=”file:///P|/portailstyle%5B2%5D.css”, like you can find on this page : http://www.coe.int/T/E/Com/Files/Events/2006-cia/ So obviously, they run Windows. However, if we take a look at netcraft ( http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.coe.int ) we can see they somehow changed by miracle for linux. Searching a little bit further, we can also see this : https://mail.coe.int/, they run OWA, outlook web access, ie, microsoft exchange, on the finest groupware in the world. Again, something that do not run on linux. And again, netcraft is saying the contrary : http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://mail.coe.int So now we agree that netcraft is lying, why would they do ? To support the blatant lies of european of course ? Or maybe, they do not, and this is some kind of lies from the adminstrator of the website ? And again, why ? I called a friend of mine who is a security expert, and he explained it was quite easy and common to use security measure to masquarade as linux in order to protect from hacker. As foreign hackers are usually far from being expert, they will try to use basic linux and of course, this will not work. He also added that linux anarchists hackers prefer to hack windows servers as this provides them with more interesting software and more complexity and value, so masquarading as running linux also protect from this kind of hacker. Shelley April 26th, 2006 1:34 pm Oh my God, stop whining and complaining. I am telling you. I would never use Linux. It’s disgusting. I am using real AMERICAN software only. Everything else is for the Godless. You need to turn to God and face the real you. You might be shocked. Kindest of regards, Shelley Anonymous April 26th, 2006 1:37 pm you are an idiot. SLayeRDK April 26th, 2006 1:38 pm Oh this is such a great site for republicans, i mean all those good values to follow and get inspired by, this site only need to get known and, George W. Bush could get a sex change operation and noone would notice, because of this excellent site and its insightfull articles. Anonymous April 26th, 2006 1:49 pm Hilarious. Simply hilarious. Oh and greetings from the communist state of Finland, comrades. mandie April 26th, 2006 1:58 pm shelley… do you know that before america there was something? so why god would rather see you use american product( , by the way like said before , piece of your computer , certainly your tv and lot of thinks like this are from some asian countries by the way your clothes too i believe in god , i pray , i go to church , and i use a linux based os , i just don’t see the relationship… your dear microsoft have some illegal technics of sell like forcing people who buying computer to have windows inside , and pay for it , even if they don’t want they also make product that always have problem to wwork do you know this dear blue screen of death , i don’t , linux is always working good i take the product who is running the best , it’s my right of buyer, i don’t pay for things that are everytime broken in a so opening market country you lleave , the choice is an evident thing isn’t it? Your Superior April 26th, 2006 2:13 pm I actually felt sick after reading that blog. The idea that someone could be that painfully stupid was almost as shocking to me as reading that people actually agreed with her. It seems to me as a fantastic peice of satire, maybe an excerpt from a South Park script. Shelley, I would be delighted if you could send me an email at bungshal@hotmail.com just to put my mind at rest and assure me this is actually a spoof. The idea that such a distgustingly racist and moronic individual would actually publish such a thing is far beyond me. mandie April 26th, 2006 2:15 pm http://www.google.com/linux Down With Linux April 26th, 2006 2:17 pm We, of the Organization of Republican Grandfathers of America and Southern Mississippi, hereby state our approval of such articles. It furthers to inform the misinformed on the dangers of the evil Satanic approach that They, the Linux community and Linus Torvalds [in particular] have partaken. Only with Baby Jesus and God watching over us can WE, the informed few, assist the mASSES in finding the light of Windows. Long live the Blue Screen and O.R.G.A.S.M!!! Tristan Shuddery April 26th, 2006 2:23 pm So what if Google were using Linux? This is America, and if the CEO of Google wants to use Linux to play Solitaire… then he is free to do so. I shall investigate your claims and perhaps write about it in a future blog article. Were Google considering using Linux in their computers it would hardly invalidate my original points, sspeifically that our national information and defense infrastructure may succumb to this “cancer”. It would only mean that the threat to our national software industry is even more dire than I had opriginally suggested. Regardless of what Google may think of Linux; it is still the choice of terrorists, paedophiles and democrats. I think we can judge this product by the company it keeps. I had a suspicion that when I wrote the original post that it would attract an undesirable pot-smoking rabble of Linux zealots. Shelley, I must apologise for attracting this crowd who will not listen to reason. Shelley April 26th, 2006 2:44 pm Gasolinux said… And Mac OS X being a threat, Apple being communist… Jesus Christ, this can’t be even possible! I mean, let’s not destroy the image of the country by saying such silliness. Apple, Microsoft are american companies, full stop. They are contributing to improve the image of the US. Apple is a wannabe American company. The CEO, Steve Jobs, is makes big contributions to the DNC and the Communist Party USA. You should inform yourself about this evil company. And better don’t buy from them, because they are using your address for sending leftwing propaganda to you! Shelley Shelley April 26th, 2006 2:46 pm For all those lib’s that can’t read: The linux article is from Tristan: http://shuddery.blogspot.com/ FYI. Shelley April 26th, 2006 2:49 pm Your Superior said… I actually felt sick after reading that blog. The idea that someone could be that painfully stupid was almost as shocking to me as reading that people actually agreed with her. It seems to me as a fantastic peice of satire, maybe an excerpt from a South Park script. Shelley, I would be delighted if you could send me an email at bungshal@hotmail.com just to put my mind at rest and assure me this is actually a spoof. The idea that such a distgustingly racist and moronic individual would actually publish such a thing is far beyond me. If you can’t handle the truth, better leave. This website is for decent Americans ONLY. And no. Sorry, I will not write to you. You are probably just using my email address to send me hate mail. I will pray for you though. Shelley Wed April 26th, 2006 2:54 pm Tristan, You should apologize for not getting the facts straight before making accusations. You should also understand that the US, is one of the nations on the face of this planet, not necessarily the one and only. Kindly get a bit of perspective. I do indeed respect Your opinion and I would like some historic character said: I don’t agree with You, but I will die for Your right to express it. I do not respect Your blatant misinformation. I have spent some time in the states, and while I have seen many wonderful things, I quite simply have to admit, it was rather good to come home to Sweden. I am of course not free here either, but at least I know about it. On top of it all, I have shopped around for a OS’s to suit my needs and have chosen one that is not encumbered or will snare me for all eternity. Specifically Debian Linux. Mind You, it is quite ok to and use Windows. I do it every time a friend needs help … Freedom? Why did OpenBSD decide to locate the project in Canada? Because of the lack of freedom in the US of course. By the way, take Your time asking the political party of Your choice if they would want to use any information from this site, just for kicks. Anyway, I will use this thread for humour, it’s much too fun to take seriously! Vladimir April 26th, 2006 2:58 pm No reason to answer these cretins, they are clearly all europeans, you should for a second flood to wash away these depravations, might need a third and fourth to really clean it up. theDaddy April 26th, 2006 3:04 pm I am astounded…not so much by the blinkered pig ignorance demonstrated by the host of this blog, but the continual lack of any effort to actually LEARN what’s going on in the world. Microsoft. Convicted of Monopolistic dealings by our own government, and soon the EU as well. Doesn’t sound too wholesome or great of a thing to be proud of. Most folks don’t celebrate Criminals. But then…look at the intro to the site. Since being anti-Communist was mentioned(and I doubt the blogger is even aware that Communism isn’t the opposite of Democracy…Communism is an economic system, not a system of government. The system of government she has an issue with is Marxism-Leninism. Communism would be diametric to Capitalism), the presence of a competing product, from whatever source would inspire competition to establish themselves as a superior product. Were Microsoft no longer to require companies (under rather large financial penaties for non compliance with them) to include their product, would they still have the marketshare they do? This is the essence of Free Market Capitalism…that competition will improve the product and benefit the consumer. Sorry, didn’t mean to hurt your mind…you’re still working on how I could possibly say that communism is not the opposite of democracy. (and we’re not a Democracy either…we’re a Constitutional Republic…you should have paid more attention in high school. Your vote doesn’t elect the president…the Electoral college does, and they have no obligation to follow your vote…why just this 2000 election, one of the electors from DC didn’t cast their vote as an act of protest, and there was nothing could prevent it.) Before you decide you can tell other people what is wrong or right in the world…please learn about what you are talking about, and not just the random knee jerk that has nothing to do with things. Also remember, that for all your chest thumping pride in “W”…he’s gone in just a couple more years. And you can’t change that. (The bulk of the world doesn’t think it will get here quickly enough, as do the bulk of Americans) And the rest of us (you know, the 6.3 billion other people on the planet, yeah, us) will breathe easier. I will now go forth, and ponder reality. Enjoy your delusion. Don’t cry to me when it crashes around you. And remember, everyone else…what we’ve learned here…if it doesn’t fit with their view, it’s a “liberal bias”…no matter what the reality is. I bet she’d be shocked to learn that part of America was founded as a penal colony (Georgia) or that the word Indian used for “Native Americans” doesn’t come from “India” but from the statement made by Columbus in his logs…’Una Gente In Dios’…a One people with God. But as these facts don’t fit with their view…it’s a liberal bias. krusbjorn April 26th, 2006 3:08 pm This post has been removed by the author. Webmaster April 26th, 2006 3:08 pm Site Statistics Operating Systems Versions Hits Percent WIN 45181 73.2 % Windows XP 39313 63.7 % Windows NT 104 0.1 % Windows Me 98 0.1 % Windows CE 2 0 % Windows 98 820 1.3 % Windows 95 23 0 % Windows 2003 267 0.4 % Windows 2000 455 47.3 % MAC 7489 12.1 % Mac OS X 7195 11.6 % Mac OS 294 0.4 % Others 9019 14.6 % Linux 7255 11.7 % Unknown 140 82.2 % FreeBSD 266 0.4 % Sun Solaris 77 0.1 % GNU 7 0 % NetBSD 4 0 % AmigaOS 2 0 % There are way to much Linux and Mac users here. Please leave now. We don’t want you here. You damn commies! Anonymous April 26th, 2006 3:21 pm haha, this is amazing, I didn’t know people could be this stupid :) Shelley: as you may have noticed, there are quite a few people who’ve done their homework far better then you have. Linux is not a bad thing, nor is it destroying the american market for computers. OF COURSE Microsoft people would call Linux a cancer, and Linux people would call Windows a cancer. It’s called marketing. Did you know Linux is a UNIX clone? Did you know UNIX was designed and created by american companies and universities? Did you know companies like microsoft have actually WORSENED the market by selling closed source software? There was much more innovation back when source was still open then there has been in Windows since it was released. Does that make Windows bad? No, Windows is a desktop operating system. Linux is not. Linux, like UNIX, is a server operating system. You’re telling people not to use Linux, that means none of you can use the internet. Anyone using the internet is using Linux in the way it was designed. If Linux did not exist, there would still be UNIX. If UNIX did not exist, there would be different things, but never Windows. Not even because Windows would not be able to handle it, but because Windows simply didn’t exist when the internet was invented. Without internet, I doubt if Microsoft would’ve been this big at all by now. Without Linux, Microsoft would not be what it is today. Be glad it exists and some people know how to use it. Don’t use it yourself, as you’ve obviously got no clue how servers or the internet works… that’s not an insult. WiLLiE April 26th, 2006 3:51 pm Oh my god, Shelley. How can you possibly expect people to take you seriously when you post such incredible nonsense? It’s like you’re claiming the earth to be flat and cover your ears with your hands an going *lalalalalala*. Grow up. It’s sounds like you’re 12 with a mission to deny obvious facts. Your site is on blogger.com, run by google who are using linux. What’s so hard to understand about that? Do a little homework and then come back like an adult and appologise for being so incedible stupid. If not, I hope no republican ever see your site. They would turn their head in shame. errr April 26th, 2006 4:00 pm Thanks for the laugh, this was the best thing I’ve read on the net today. I was having a bad day then read this and my stomach started hurting from all the laughing I did while reading the article, and then to comments… priceless I dont doubt that you believe everything you wrote because there is just a huge ammount of really stupid people out there; but if it wasnt for you stupid people who would I have to laugh at?? Again thanks for the laugh :D Pete April 26th, 2006 4:16 pm Ok, as a level-headed republican, and Bush supporter, I should inform you that this linux article is without a doubt the greatest display of blatant human stupidity. Ever. Linux is more like a Mac/Windows hybrid than a threat to America. Many Americans use it. Many REPUBLICANS use it. I dislike all the left-wing conspiracy rubbish that is crammed down our throats so often, but I also dislike extremist ideals on the right, as well as left. Please, stop posting political ideals - they are fundamentaly wrong. Anonymous April 26th, 2006 4:29 pm First most servers are not using linux but UNIX which has been around before Bill Gates bought the original Windows for something like $50K. UNIX was developed by Bell Labs. Most servers run Apache software which has also been around a long time. The original computing machine goes back to an English man named Babbage whom was English. America’s first computers as primative as they were sure had a lot of foreign help. I thnk some people need to do a little research before they state something. :-) 666 April 26th, 2006 4:32 pm As the Devil representative for this part of the net, I am disguted with you. The intrinsic evilness of Linux should have remained hidden until it was ready to be unleashed on the Christian folks. Who are you to undo years of patient satanic development ? barq April 26th, 2006 4:38 pm Shelley, You do realise Jesus wasn’t American don’t you? Anonymous April 26th, 2006 4:45 pm I find it rather interesting, Shelley, that the wishlist on your blog profile points to froogle, which, as we all know, is a product of the linux-using company google… arkanoid April 26th, 2006 4:49 pm interesting, shelley, that a wishlist link in your blog profile points to froogle, a product of “linux-loving” google… even more interesting, that shelleytherepublican.com is hosted on a SuSE/Linux machine… but then again, that can’t be true, can it? ;) Anonymous April 26th, 2006 5:49 pm Omigawd! Osama fucks Disney? frog April 26th, 2006 6:23 pm pssst … this famous “Mac OS X” is based on a operating system called FreeBSD, which is free licensed as well. So this american Company “Apple” has to pay very much less to developd their on main parts of their operating system. Ugh. Scary. The Communists are taking ownership of our computers! But then, why does BSD stand for “Berkeley Software Development”? Humanitarian April 26th, 2006 8:06 pm THE USA IS NOT THE WORLD! Get over yourselves (those behind the blog that is). There are many nations out there on very good terms with the states that you are belittling with your poor acceptance of their nation. America is a fine nation, just not with these biggoted beliefs that discriminate to fellow human beings and their heritage! So somebody has created their idea of what Windows should be like AND is offering it for free. Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Arrest them now! The USA ain’t makin’ a profit from this!!! If I create an operating system being a christian relationship with my wife and my 2 sons; decides to post this software FREE OF CHARGE on the net with all the guarantees of MSN (yet chances are it wouldn’t encounter the same problems). This makes me a… Get ready folks… Nazi Commie Fag Terrorist and many others i can’t be bothered getting RSI for You are MAD IN THE HEAD. I am an upstanding Christian (yes I even spell it with a capital C due to my faith) but I believe that we are only here once and must give our fellow man the chance as God has given him by bringing him to this Earth. So who am I to JUDGE!?!?, what somebody else has to offer to aid my life? Stop preaching your ill mannered concepts and look and the fundemental ideas of CHRISTIANITY. You really, really make me question your ideas of religion? Are you the daughter of Ian Paisley or Gerry Adams? With such extremist ideas you must have some heritage. DON’T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON YOUR WAR AGAINST TERRORISM WHEN YOU WELCOMED GERRY ADAMS OVER TO THE WHITEHOUSE FOR ST PATRICKS DAY! Love and peace, A humanitarian, open minded Christian. ~Spike~ April 26th, 2006 8:21 pm Disgusting. This just fuels the idea of an Ignorant Republican. And rightfully so! Linux has been around since the mid-late 90s, back when Windows 98 was at the top of its game. Windows has since developed to become a more stable, flexible operating system only after following in a Linux style of operation. Since when is free bad? do you enjoy paying $200 for a large program to change 0s and 1s every two to four years? I don’t. As for Linux’s use to counterfeit DVDs, that’s plain bullshit. The first three DVD-copying programs were written in windows for windows. Google uses Linux to support its massive amount of storage. Windows can’t handle that. If you don’t believe me, look it up. So, in conclusion to such an outrageous thought, I’ve decided that you’re just one in a trillion stupid enough to think that. This post powered by Firefox (a linux-based browser) on Mandrake Linux ~spike~ Anonymous April 26th, 2006 8:29 pm After reading this, i dont think i will never be able to recover…. how about “stop polluting the internet in your cry for attention” , and “you nublet” Guido Fawkes Esq. April 26th, 2006 8:37 pm Linux Liberals! Anonymous April 26th, 2006 8:39 pm According to netcraft.com, blogger runs on linux: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.blogger.com You should be ashamed of yourself. This article is nothing but FUD and rubbish. Satan Loving Democrat April 26th, 2006 10:19 pm This leads me to conclude that: A) This is the most incredibly clever and creative joke I have read in a decade. or B) Shelley and Tristan: you are hands down the epitome of dumb. I hope upon hope that this is a joke. If not, you will be able to hear the explosion of my brain across the country. Shelley: I am especially ashamed that someone as stupid as you is within 100 miles of me. I am a linux certified, and joke or not - this was hilarious. Here’s some gasoline to add to your retarded fire: google “munich linux” All in all, thanks for the laugh, idiot. Or genious? Anonymous April 26th, 2006 10:48 pm Shelley, I am a conservative Christian who lives in Missouri, and has spent quite a bit of time in Iowa as well. Please listen to me: You are the one who is being misled here. I know you must not a technical kind of person, but please do some research before posting this sort of material. So much of what you said is a flat-out lie. Not an opinion, a LIE. It’s a computer program that was initially developed in Finland You might find it interesting to know that a very significant portion of it was developed not only here in the US, but by people all over the world. In fact, the GNU project was started in the US, by an American (who does happen to be very liberal :) ). as a means of circumventing valuable copyrights and patents owned by an American company called SCO Group. This is a blatant lie. Linux was not created to circumvent copyrights and patents. Nor is it illegal in any way, shape, or form here in the United States. The American software industry is worth more than $7 Billion; Introducing a foreign product like Linux which is often copied for free could threaten that entire industry. This makes about as much sense as saying that we shouldn’t buy Japanese cars because they are cheaper and more fuel efficient. You should be thankful for Linux, because of it, Microsoft is being forced to create better software. It’s called ‘competition’ and ‘choice’. And I’ll give you a hint: it’s good for consumers! Imagine if the State of the Union address were hacked because the TV station decided to save money by using Linux? Imagine if a stealth-bomber crashed because it’s software was written by anonymous Chinese or European hackers. If you’re arguing that using Windows makes your system less vulnerable to attack, you are living in a fantasy world. Please do some research before saying things like this. Or just open your eyes: how many people you know have had trouble with viruses, spyware, adware, and other attacks? Windows is not immune to these problems by any stretch of the imagination. Arguably, our TV stations and stealth-bombers SHOULD use open-source software because it is more open to peer review. If there is a (non-security related) bug in Microsoft’s software, no one but them will know it because only they have access to the source code. If you don’t know what source code is, you should look it before writing this. It is fundamental to the arguments you are trying to make. And guess what software Osama Bin Laden uses on his laptop? Irrelevant. Did you know Timothy McVeigh ran Windows? 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. 1) Linux was designed to counterfeit DVDs as much as your car was designed for drive-by shootings. 2) I know many Windows users who have no problem ripping off music CDs and DVD movies. So stop implying it is somehow better in this regard. 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. Are you kidding? In case you weren’t aware, linux is licensed under the GPL, which means that anyone can modify or copy it, legally. It is impossible to “steal” it from from anyone else. I’d be more worried about Windows being pirated. Ignorance is not a crime, but don’t post if you don’t know what you’re talking about. I’ll keep you in my prayers tonight, because I know you have good intentions. But you’ve wrongly identified linux and its users as being sinful. Anonymous April 26th, 2006 10:54 pm “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.” “Apple is a wannabe American company. The CEO, Steve Jobs, is makes big contributions to the DNC and the Communist Party USA. You should inform yourself about this evil company. And better don’t buy from them, because they are using your address for sending leftwing propaganda to you!” Steve Jobs will soon own a lot of disney…he is the CEO of Pixar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar Anonymous April 26th, 2006 11:32 pm Are you actually that stupid or is this a joke? oh my goodness, i have never heard that much bullsh*t before. Go do your homework and stop screwing up the conservatives image. rj April 27th, 2006 12:30 am Shelley, Interesting that this one post got over a third of all the comments on all the posts on this page. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 12:45 am Hi Shelley. I thought earlier that only your president has something wrong on his upstairs. No it seems that it has something to do with your political opinion. You Texas hillbillies still wont realize that the USA aint the entire world. P.S http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml;jsessionid=QTRKQ3XAETK54QSNDBECKH0CJUMEKJVN?articleId=18839747&_requestid=121695 Have a nice psychoses, Lahja Kuukka Anonymous April 27th, 2006 12:50 am haha this is so idiotic that there are some people who really buy this crap. conspiracies or not doesnt matter here. linux is a good os. people like shelly really want some attention to their blogs or they have been deprived of a social life in reality. that is all. goodnight. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 1:20 am Blindness covers thy land, that is obvious. You Americans are playing in your own little dreamhouse where you think you control the world. You do not. The rest of the world thinks you’re stupid, not to mention fat, and the only reason we let you keep up with this bullcrap is because you are sitting on a nuclear arsenal that can destroy the world, blowing earth wide open. And thank you for proving to us that you are in fact stupid, as we presumed. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 2:31 am This article is so biased, it has to be a joke. One thing I don’t think anyone’s mentioned: the Americans did not invent the computer. The British invented the computer whilst trying to break enigma in the second world war. So to sum up, the British (and europe) are far superior to you dumb ass Americans Anonymous April 27th, 2006 2:53 am This is too funny. I’m as conservative as you can get but this has to be the craziest blog posting I have ever seen. As others have mentioned Linux was created by a student in Finland as a pet project and spread in popularity because it was simpler than UNIX and more importantly free. The idea that there is something Marxist about Linux is downright bonkers. And trust me, I have no love for the commies, and I bash them any time I can. But the idea that the Chi-comms will be “hacking” into the B2 if it uses Linux is just crazy. For starters the military uses its own computer software and even has its own coding language (unlike C/C++ which is used in Windows, Machintosh, Linux, etc.). Not to mention the military isn’t stupid enough to allow such security breeches to be easy to accomplish. Anyway, despite the downright lunacy of this blog posting there is some common ground we can stand on - two 2 1/2 more years of tax cuts and dead terrorists. F’k yeah! Informant April 27th, 2006 3:23 am You have to remember that the main idea and theory behind computing altogether was invented and published by a British man called Alan Turing who later on was arrested for being GAY. Not even slightly but BLATANTLY GAY! So you should not just stop using Linux but stop using any kind of computers or automation to stop it from tainting you to accept being GAY and all the leftist propaganda to be true! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 3:27 am are you serious? :D The Scientist April 27th, 2006 3:28 am I cant be sure, but i believe that computers are german invention. Later on, almost at the same time the british constructed their first computer. Americans DID have something to do however being the first country to bomb down the building where the first computer was being kept in 1943. Keeping the faith! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 3:43 am Strange. Why it is then that there are much, much more programs for stealing copyrighted materials for pc/Windows users than for Linux? I can easily buy software that can be used for stealing music, rip DVDs, hack other people’s computers and so on. And I happily use my Windows XP equipped computer for such actions. Yes. I happily steal DVDs, rip them with my Windows machine, add American movies and music to my collection of the Windows machine’s hard disc. It is rather much easier to use all that on Windows than on Linux. Maybe you Tristan/Shelley should start promoting a ban on Windowds, because it makes breaking laws so much easier? Mr. Schwaner April 27th, 2006 3:46 am Omg, have you ever heard by a scientist called Konrad Zuse? The inventor of the first binary computer of the world, the “Z3″ ? Hum? Anonymous April 27th, 2006 3:48 am As a European (British), Christian Linux user I have never laughed so much when I read Shelley’s post. The irony in it was just breathtaking. Of course I do have a problem reading the page - should I be reading it at all? My Sun Ultra 30 (American company) was built in the UK (Oh no!) and runs Debian Linux (Oh no no!)…and has no virus checker - what for Linux on Ultrasparc??? Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:03 am You know that the computer as it was build is an all german invention. I’m sure you know that. The first computer was build bei Zuse. So all of your super invetions in america are based on all the superknowledge of german engineers. Dont feel so superior. Who flies high, will fall deep! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:04 am and hereis what blogger uses for providing you with this page.. nothing russian or european.. a true honest to god american website. make you own conclusions. Christian Leber April 27th, 2006 4:10 am Your article was a pleasure to read, if just everyone could write such funny stuff! thank you! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:13 am Goes to show how stupid corporate whore republicans really are. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:15 am This was a good joke, thanks for the laughs :-] melak April 27th, 2006 4:23 am Evil Finland!!!! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:24 am you are a typical american asshole nothing more you dont know where is europe, even you dont know what is linux one of the bigest american companies, IBM is using linux http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/openpower/ what a pity? you think IBM is stupid? they dont wanna make money? or waht? why they using linux? beacuse MS is a kind of shit, and linux is better for servers, and there is no software patent like “double click” which is really a great amercian idea, was developed by 1000 american engineer Steve April 27th, 2006 4:26 am Thanks for the laugh. I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time. If you truly believe it, I feel sorry for you. But if this is a joke, absolutely brilliant. Again, thanks for the laugh. Now I’m going to go walk some, my sides hurt so much. :-) Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:28 am Just to say, I’m glad other people are picking up on the insidious threat of Linux - would you believe that most of the people involved in the project are actually fairly naive and believe that actually they’re being altruistic in creating a free, stable, effective operating system? A friend of mine installed Linux on his laptop recently, buying into the hype, and it actually caused his screen to slowly melt! The manufacturer have refused a refund, explaining that the video drivers in Linux are so poorly written that they cause the screen’s backlight to run at the power of an industrial laser - they said he was lucky not to have been burned! Don’t listen to all the Linux-supporters above, they’re probably just pinko commies who eat babies for breakfast. God bless America! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:30 am Please, just try linux before writing this bunch of inepsies. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:39 am LOL. Man, now you might see why nearly all nations on the world think that americans are completely idiots. You are a great example. Just keep on please :)))) You are greatly enhancing USA’s image now ;) Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:45 am All you people not realizing that this is a joke are f*cking idiots ;D Have a nice day now. Jonas Eriksson April 27th, 2006 4:47 am Hi, as you know well be aware of, you are very, very wrong. I’d Just lika to point out some things that people seems to have missed; First of IBM, who sells linux-based servers (http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/home.html) and works together with mostly redhat to do this. You can by the way check the box that your laptop came in. It’s probably assembled in malaysia. Continuing on SCO, a company that makes a living in suing most other companies, amongst others, IBM. You can find more info about this on http://www.groklaw.net/. In the comments, you blame google for beeing Bad People(tm), since they work with the communist goverment of China. Yet your blog resides on the google-owned blogger.com. Steve Ballmer, or, as we folks at the communist-portal slashdot(irony) like to call him, Mr Throwsomechairs, is as an CEO a spokesman for a company that produces a product that competes with Linux, as you compete with these “Democ-rats”, as you call them. Now is’nt that a bit false? No democrats are short with tails and some fur as far as i know. Battleships don’t run windows for a simple reason; windows is not designed for those tasks. You will need some kind of real time platform, for example QNX (also in the UNIX-family). If you look in the EULA, you can see that windows is not intended for tasks such as battleships or nucelar powerplants. I know this is said before, but it is so stupid that i have to say it again; linux is not illegal software! The reason why some companies make money of it, is to sell it with support. In windows case, you don’t just have to buy the support. You have to pay for the software as well. Greetings from sweden. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:51 am Thanks for the wonderful article! I’m still trying to contain my laughter. Wonderful. You can see it’s good because it fooled so many. :) Keep it up! Engin Arici - Istanbul April 27th, 2006 4:54 am If this article of yours will still be available 10 years later, it is probably that this web site is hosted on a LINUX OS machine. If not, probably it will be broken soon. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:56 am I AM AN ANARCHIST ! I USE LINUX AND I WILL DESTROY THE UNITED STATES WITH LINUX POWERED ATOMIC BOMBS. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 5:00 am This whole blog smells like troll. Don’t take it seriously. Jonas Eriksson April 27th, 2006 5:04 am Sorry, after reading http://shelleytherepublican.com/2006/04/europe-liberal-hell.html I realize this is all a joke. GJ :) Niko April 27th, 2006 5:06 am Great article! However, it should also be noted that WWW, most likely the most common way of using the Internet, was created by a group of liberalist hippies from Switzerland, a country that has never been involved in warfare. Remember: when you surf the Internet, you are supporting communism! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 5:12 am Do not confuse the server and the client side. Eg any content (like HTML) can be produced by any software (like FrontPage or such) which than be served by non Microsoft system, hey they’re only files! If you see “windows-1250″ as character encodign it does not mean _anything_ about the server … Also, if the web server stats of your web server shows that majority of visitors are Windows users it can be true however it does not mean anything about the operating systems used on servers. On the server world (which builts the Internet on top of lower ISO/ISO layers) built from UNIX Linux systems all over the world, YES EVEN IN THE USA. People using there desktop/laptop/etc PCs uses more Windows systems than eg Linux that’s true, but it does not mean more. It only means that Microsoft created an OS which capable of being used by non-technical people as well. This also means that Microsft should create ‘easy to use’ software often lacks of enough security and stability which may requite more knowledge from the users which most people using computers nowday hasn’t got. This also means that the ‘cancer’ of the Internet are WINDOWS systems, the major source of spam and virii are produced badly administrated windows systems (just read about bot/zombie networks). So the bad is Microsoft here for real, if you want to see the interest of the Internet (or only a part of it, even USA!). Also please note that computer science you’re writing about started with someone called Naumann who is Hungarian like me :) Nevermind. Most of USA “invents” are strangers migrated to the USA for personal reasons though. Antony Jones April 27th, 2006 5:17 am Haha. This article kept me laughing for hours. It’s a shame so many people can’t recognise parody when they read it. I would have published this, it’s brilliant. Thomas Lawrence April 27th, 2006 5:18 am Nice troll. It is interesting to see that Linux is so evil. Evil enough to be running on the servers of both blogger.com and shelleytherepublican.com. Just look at the site netcraft.net to determine the OS used on a site. Oh by the way, SCO never owned any of the copyrights and they are still in court trying to prove they did, though they have never produced a single shred of evidence. Hopefully this blog, and the rest of them are a joke. No one can be this ignorant. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 5:18 am Experts say that 9 out of 10 Linux users have homosexual fantasies. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 5:21 am Offcource it is good to live in the world where everithing is patented. Web links are patented , double click with mouse is patented , how much further??? I am using linux allready for several years and it works for me. It is a little more complicated to use than MS but if you know what you are doing then there is no match to linux. Windows is like way behind, development is slow, lots of bugs and lots of restrictions and probably windows is informing third parties about the habits of the user and personal details etc. Linux is pure, source code is open to everyone. And everyone can look it up. With windows you do not have a clue what is your computer really doing. For example i will never visit my online bank account with windows client. Idris April 27th, 2006 5:24 am This is the funniest rant I have every seen, if you are a comedy, then you are fantastic, if not, you have serious superiority issues you really need to get over. Indeed, Dreamweaver and the like don’t work on Linux (well, unless you use Crossover Office), but then, who says you need them, any notepad application with make HTML/PHP/ASP/Whatever pagers. Thanks for the greatest laugh I ever had. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 5:28 am I don’t care if it’s troll or not, but this is f****ing brillant… I laughed hard for some minutes. Thank you. balazs April 27th, 2006 5:35 am well i would like to point out that computer was originated from a hungarian mind: Neumann. But this is irrelevant. You will be assimilated to the Linux collective. Resistance is futile. Seriously this article is one of the funniest things i ever read, im a bit sorry for your fellow american people, who might take this seriously and thus feel ashamed :) Anonymous April 27th, 2006 5:39 am Shelley, you should really add your age to your profile. If the people knew that your are 12 than they would stop complaining about your nonsense. they would laugh and just go away. BTW: Osama Bin Laden cannot use Windows. It is forbidden where he currently lives. And I hope that noone takes your stuff seriously. It’s the greatest crap I’ve ever heard. Sounds like you are writing G.W.Bush’s speaches. Would match to the age thing! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 5:42 am Parody can be a powerful thing. But in order for it to be effective the reader has to use at least some brain capacity to recognise it. If not recognised it will only propel the idiotic to even greater idiocy (On either side of the issue). I’m sorry to see that so many do not use their brains. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 5:45 am Your web sight is running on Linux. It of course takes and educated person to figure this out. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 5:50 am Shelley, my dear, I hope your postings are a product of your sense of humour. Otherwise, I could recommend you a very good shrink. By the way, I hope you read books and buy some of ‘em on the web. Maybe you would be harshly surprised to find that Amazon is running its services on Linux. How dare they? Or why don’t they give away books instead of selling them, being communists?! You really need to get a grip… xb00t April 27th, 2006 5:50 am balazs, not to shatter your dream but the father of the computer is said to to be John Atanasoff - Bulgarian. http://www.johnatanasoff.com/ balazs April 27th, 2006 5:56 am xb00t: i guess every nation has its historical evidence for inventing the computer (which itself is quite an indefinite thing) :) to be honest i dont think that any nation can get the credit for it, it is simply not one object that could be pointed out. ps.: based on this: http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm, Atanasoff wasnt the first ;) XeryusTC April 27th, 2006 6:05 am 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. The first computer was invented by a man called Babbage, he was from England. For example, this rugged IBM laptop I am using was designed and built by an American company. It runs software built by Microsoft, one of America’s most productive organizations. IBM gets most of the computer parts from Asian companies. Like all the greatest American engineering, it’s an example of innovation that makes a growing group of European and Chinese hackers jealous. They hate our lead in computing technology and will stop at nothing until they have control of all of our computers. May I remind you of who attacked Iraqi to make it democratic, a system that doesn’t work like how it is promised to work, just as Windows does. 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. Patenting of algoritms is bullshit, I could make a patent request for “1+1=”, it won’t be accepted because of first art but lets pretend it does, I could sew everyone that says it. This is the same as people that patent algoritms. Windows brakes patents too, the latest one was about how ActiveX components are being loaded into a web page. Unlike Windows, which is a mature commercial product which is normally included with every new computer, Linux is given away. Now it may not sound like much of a problem, after all there is very little profit in merely giving a product away. 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. 1) Google is free too, and they make profit. 2) Not all Linux distributions are meant to make profit. 3) Steve Balmer is CEO of Microsoft, enough said. The American software industry is worth more than $7 Billion; Introducing a foreign product like Linux which is often copied for free could threaten that entire industry. A generation of computer users might get use to accepting foreign software hand-outs rather than paying for a superior American products. If only the danger were just to our economy: These days computers control everything from TV stations to battleships; Our crucial information and defense infrastructure is built on computer technology. If we allow this cancer into our networks, there is no knowing what the effect might be on our infrastructure, but that is just what liberals are trying to do. Windows isn’t superior to Linux, it has more bugs, more security holes and mostly relies on third party software to solve the problems that Microsoft couldn’t solve. If every *nix based server would shutdown right now your blog (and this stupid article) couldn’t be read by no-one. Imagine if the State of the Union address were hacked because the TV station decided to save money by using Linux? Imagine if a stealth-bomber crashed because it’s software was written by anonymous Chinese or European hackers. It would make as much sense as inviting the French to come over and take over the White-House. The code that goes into the kernel is completely checked by Linus himself. The same goes for most distributions, the submitted source is checked. 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. This is also possible when you use Windows, it is even more simple to do it. 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. Americans steal from themselves too, I’ll get back to this later. This Linux problem is a growing issue, and one that conservative Americans cannot afford to ignore. Fortunately Microsoft have prepared a great deal of information to help computer users get away from this menace. But there is something you can do to help keep American #1 in the computer business: If one of your friends is using Linux or may be tempted to try it show them this article. Explain that Linux is a genuine threat and that by using it they may be opening their computer to Chinese hackers. Linux is more secure then Windows, there are ALOT of security holes in Windows. 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. Red Hat, a company that makes the best Linux distribution for servers, sells their product too. They have a free alternative though, it’s called Fedora Core. 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. I will pray that there will become more Linux users. Also I would like to mention that Apple’s ‘Mac Os X’ is a real threat, too. This damn extrem leftwing company is giving millions to the democ-rats!!! Also I suspect that this Mac OS is sending personal information to Apple and other communist companies and organizations! Mac OS isn’t a real thread, without it you probably wouldn’t have any commercials (which support your “superior” capitalistic system), Mac OS is mostly used as a workspace for (semi)profesional graphics. Microsoft STOLE software from Apple back in the 80’s. Yes, Linux is a primative European clone; It is much less capable than Windows. In fact it omits features that were standard in Windows back in 1998; For example Linux has no built-in anti-virus or anti-spyware software. You cannot even buy popular utilities like Norton Security to compensate for this fact. There are no tools for common tasks like defragging a hard disk. God knows what you would use to send a fax or make a website. You cannot even get Front Page for Linux. Why isn’t there any anti-virus or anti-spyware program, because it isn’t needed! Once again linux is more secure then Windows. You also don’t need a defragging program because Linux has algoritms that don’t fragmentate files. Last off all: You shouldn’t confuse a hacker with a cracker, a hacker is someone that hacks because he wants to show that there is a security leak. A cracker hacks for personal benefit, crackers mostly use security holes that are found by hackers too. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 6:07 am This post is awesome, even if I try to take it seriously :) Keep up the good work! electr0 April 27th, 2006 6:11 am The most tragic thing with this post is that this article (even if its a joke) fits the picture most of common people in europe have of the people of the USA. America is supposed to be land of the free but every picture you se of USA is a white christian that says the rest of the world is against freedom and therefore US should invade them. (Content: The world is free if you are an american, white and christian) Sure there alot of badguys out there… but like for example the invasion of iraq could be nothing more than militaryindustri and oil. (but thank god we got ridd of saddam) M. Serlachius April 27th, 2006 6:15 am This is the most hilarious post I’ve seen in a while. Laughing my guts out. Agree with electr0 You weren’t quite serious though, were you? Regards, M. Serlachius MD, PhD, Turku, Finland Anonymous April 27th, 2006 6:15 am “Computers are an American invention” I just can’t stand mentioning: even the idea to search for the continent of America is a European invention :). Not that I think you’ve read anything about history, but perhaps you’ve seen the movie about it :)… Anonymous April 27th, 2006 6:22 am LOOOL =) i feel sad for u americans ;) linux VS. windows, linux 10 - windows 0 Anonymous April 27th, 2006 6:26 am Ah bless, I love it when Americans proof they are Fat and retarded, you really are the laughing stock of the rest of the world, no one gives a shit about country. M. Serlachius April 27th, 2006 6:27 am Actually, one more thing: Computers are NOT an American invention, which must be very disappointing for those, who really agree with the poster (whom I still can’t with certainty identify as a troll, though that would be tempting). The Z3-computer, constructed by the German engineer Konrad Zuse in 1941 was proven to be Turing-complete in 1998. So much about computers being an American invention. Though I still suspect this blog is a joke, I’ll mention this, becaus I know, it will make some american boneheads really, really angry. :) M. Serlachius, MD, PhD, Turku, Finland EUROPE :) Anonymous April 27th, 2006 6:34 am TROLL. You’re such a troll your mother has a beard and your native tounge is Zug. Clearly you know your site is hosted on a Linux server. But really… it does destroy the credibility of your site because people take you seriously… think about it :) Anonymous April 27th, 2006 6:35 am You see people like Shelley and Tristan are perfect examples of the ideal citizen. Not only do we have to fight propaganda from above, we have to deal with it being spread by brainless puppets who do nothing but scare themselves with fears and lies of the rest of the world. I personally can’t wait for the fall and see the cold water hit the sleeping. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 6:37 am i saw linux beat up an old lady once, pure evil. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 6:44 am Greetings ! Shelley, Tristan : could you please give me your address ? I would really enjoy stabbing you in the face. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 6:45 am The FIRST computer is invented by a BULGARIAN scientist - John Atanasov. Pedro April 27th, 2006 6:50 am Well, my name is Pedro i’m from Portugal (yes Europe) and i’am a linux user for about 6 years, i have to say i had a lot of fun reading your article, that’s pure comedy, a litle bit of patriotic and xenophobe. By the way, you should include something like linux is the SO of the poor people, because not all people can give the ultrajeous amount of money that MS asks for there SO. Best regards. Pedro. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 6:50 am Ha ha ha, i can’t stop it. Good jokes. And not only the “linux one”, there are a couple of others around. Ok, let’s go back to work now. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 7:02 am Just to say that Linux does have antivirus software, very sophisticated as well. Its use main use is to get rid of email and other viruses for the bug ridden failing useless windows machines that may be attached. Just to say excellent article, love your humour. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 7:04 am You fucking communists!! Shut the hell up!! Windows rules 4ever!!!! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 7:08 am The ‘All American IBM’ has sold its PC business to Chinese. Now its sold under the name of Lenovo. Don’t say you did’nt know that……………….too. You are typing on a Chinese laptop and posting on Blogs hosted on Linux servers. LOL! You can’t be for real, are you? Anonymous April 27th, 2006 7:12 am its hard to keep myself from laughing at you. There is no LAW that says “USE MS OR WE WILL TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS TO USE A COMPUTER” i use whatever OS i want , and i do hope some hackers make a porn site of your blog. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 7:15 am This article is great!!!! Especially as this whole site runs on linux. Cheers! Iain April 27th, 2006 7:16 am >liberal bias in the IT press As a member of the IT press and a Christian conservative I can tell you that there’s little bias here. I read your posting and while the style is interesting it is riddled with inaccuracies - I’m afraid your IBM laptop (good choice, I love mine) was made in China by Lenovo, which bought out IBM’s laptop division some time ago. Dam April 27th, 2006 7:24 am MOuuuuaaahahahhahahahhahaha !!! OMG !!! What a laugth !!! thank you very mutch for the entertainment. Now; time to work again. Did you noticed that your blog is hosted on a computer that abuse of free softwares ? ( Server: Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.2 mod_ssl/2.8.25 OpenSSL/0.9.7a ) please shutdown … Quick (think of cancer)!!! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 7:26 am OMFG!!!!!….cant belive that brainwashin’ works that fine in the US….this article just proved that american peps r the dumbest in the world….no wonder u guys need 2 import ‘da brainz’ Anonymous April 27th, 2006 7:26 am you guys are crazy Europes worst invention -> America Anonymous April 27th, 2006 7:31 am I’m speechless. After laughing for first 10 mins I could read further… This gotta be the best joke I have ever read. If the writer really is serious, I can see why your country is being laughed upon. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 7:34 am “Thanks for posting my article Shelley; I submitted this to the mainstream IT press, but none of them wanted to know. It’s shocking to learn that the same liberal bias that infects mainstream news-sources also affects the technical press.” Oh my god… I really hope they could stand on their feet after reading that . Even the fact that this blogging service is run on linux… You really should even try to use your brains before writing something like this.(Doing some background study wouldn’t hurt) Anonymous April 27th, 2006 7:34 am Windoze for the ones who cant support them selves Linux for the ones who are set free….Im so glad i dont live in a country where your cousin can be your wife and you think its ok for a company to your country….Command Line for Life Anonymous April 27th, 2006 7:37 am Warning! Your hosting provider uses free software to present your content! So please stop using it, otherwise you actually SUPPORT free software, since you write “nice” articles which draw visitors who will use a server powered by free softwares! So you MUST stop your site now! I hope I could help here :) Anyway be careful, even Roman Kingdom/Empire/Republic failed once … Quarter of inhabitants of the whole Earth belonged to that realm at once which exists hundreds years … And failed once. History is important to check sometimes … Anyway I love history of Roman realm and I’m always fan of Romans in history films :) However it can’t change the facts that this is the past and there is no happy end :( Presumption was a problem. For Romans. And it is, for USA? At least according to some citizens of USA thinking all of the world is made by them … Minky Chunky April 27th, 2006 7:38 am As a red-haired woman, I don’t understand computers. But I’ll tell you what I do understand, Righteous Indignation and Homosexuals. Thankfully there are no red-haired homosexuals, which I believe is a blessing we should all be thankful for. Running around exposing their sinful genitals to our children, looking like a sleeping dormouse in a nest of straw. Praise to The Truth! Alex April 27th, 2006 7:43 am I spurted coffee all over my keyboard when i read this article… thank you very much, Shelley, I haven’t laughed this hard for ages. Wonderful, wonderful… some of you Americans truly are hilarious at times. Yes… Linux was actually never meant to be any kind of communist plot to overthrow the United States (or some weird shit like that), it was a project of one man; Linux Torvalds, who did it jut for fun (which, by the way, is the name of his book, which you and your fanatical fellows would never read but which I can recommend to everyone else). He shared the code to his project to everyone else interested, and stated that it was free (as in free beer) to copy and modify as anyone saw fit (I can’t remember how the licencing went… if anyone wants to fill in the gaps; be my guest). So, lots of people took the code and modified it to their own needs, and so we have all the different distributions of Linux that are available today. And this is good. We seriously *need* an alternative to a over-commercialized, unsafe, bloated, buggy and monopolizing OS like Windows. As a side note, you could check your background facts… starting with the etymology of the word ‘hacker’ and it’s difference to the definition ‘cracker’. Cheers, *A Anonymous April 27th, 2006 7:47 am People, this site has to be a joke right? Anonymous April 27th, 2006 7:49 am I use Linux, and I like eat Christian girls after I’ve deflowered them. They taste just like chicken! Alex April 27th, 2006 7:49 am Oh, speaking of the last post I made… That was for the ones who took this article seriously. In case it’s joke; good one. :-) Cheers, *A ___________________ This post was written on a Linux machine. JobbyJabber April 27th, 2006 7:54 am I agree with everything. Mr Linux sucks cocks in hell and Richard Blackwood invented the computer. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 7:55 am Republicans are a joke. Democrats are a joke. Christianity is a joke. And socialism is a joke too. Unfortunately, they’re all very bad jokes that end up killing people. Christian chicks are lousy in bed, and socialist chicks think that all straight sex is rape. Objectivist chicks like it rough. :) Alcofrybas Nasier April 27th, 2006 7:56 am Arf! You know when you’ve been popbitched. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 7:56 am Another troll of Tristan Nitot, this dirty bolchevik ! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 7:56 am You people really are nuts. Americans who have discussions refer to each other eather as liberal or republican. Where’s your unity? This article made me laugh. Like we’re the ones who are dangerouse in this world (Im Dutch, yes thats in Europe). I’m not dangerouse, jalouse or whatever Tristan calls us. Really, you pissed me off real bad. What do you know about Europe these days? You’re getting the wrong image, I’m not hostile, nor are other Europeans. To get back on your infiltration thingy Tristan. If your army ran on Windows, it wouldn’t be as gloriouse as it is today. Believe me, battleships and stuff run on Unix. Linux runs on Unix. If you call Linux dangerouse, I’d better get the hell out of there because your nukes and all of that will not run on Windows either, but on the very basis of the OS you call dangerouse and vulnerable. Linux is safe; safer than Microsoft. It’s for free, yet it requires more knowledge. It’s very basic and unfinished yet. How the hell can you match it to terrorists? The biggest terrorist is sitting in the White House and is using Windows (now enough of this personal attacking). Get your facts staright, don’t think in the ways of being in favor or being against something. That’s naïve. Solve this as the United States of America you are, not as a matter of politics. Shelley, you may not like Linux, that would be your choise. However, I suggest you take a look at more references than this guy gives you. There are always more sides of a story, and I try to stay in between. Yes, Windows is easier for most people. However, if we all grew up with Linux, that would be a different story. Windows supports games, that’s why I’m still using Windows. Yet, if Linux starts supporting games aswell, I say bye-bye to Windows. Just remember, websites run best on Linux, for your personal stuff I suggest people to use the OS they can cope with. In your case that’s Windows. It doesn’t matter, this article seems way too excegurated to be for real. @Alex, wasn’t the name Linus? ps Isn’t the PS3 going to run on Linux? No grudges against Europeans from now on, that’s immature behaviour. - Squig2510 (Daniel) Anonymous April 27th, 2006 7:57 am I am disgusted with such ignorance. Please say it is a joke! artificially_awake April 27th, 2006 7:58 am Dear Shelley, I used Linux and now I have AIDS. My dog has AIDS and so does my goldfish. LINUX RUINED OUR LIVES!!11! Pray for me. A_A Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:02 am … Then we laugh so much. Thanks for the post full of nonsence, I think from now on many people believe your thoughts! And greets from Finland, people spreading this post all around here, very amusing one. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:02 am Ahh, kind of deja-vu… Someone wiped the dust off of the old story: http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html Btw, Shelley, what’s your opinion on *BSD? That’s a unix-variant like Linux, also open-source, and was developed at Univ. of California, Berkeley… Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:02 am To the guy who asked of Americans, “Where’s your unity”, I want to say that there has never been any unity in the United States. We couldn’t even agree on our Constitution until we finally bothered to put in a Bill of Rights — as if explicitly defining the federal government’s few legitimate powers weren’t enough. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:03 am SHELLY WILL YOU SUCK MY COCK? Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:03 am American troops use Linux, in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. So you’re either a) Really ignorant or b) Writing satire about a subject you have little knowledge of. Satire has to be as believeable as possible innit. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:04 am IMHO Microsoft is bigger threat than Linux. Ty April 27th, 2006 8:05 am Shelly and whoever agreed with her. On the count of computer, you and your fellows are just ignorant. Read, listen, think before you speak. And unfortunately for you shelly, on the count of God, you are ignorant too. I am not a religious man, but I have believes. Why don’t you instead of believing in God, try to believe in what God believes (since God has will and consciouseness). And that, from my interpretation is loving for other. In other words, what makes a man/woman god-like is not one’s love for one’s own kind, but one’s love for others. We have an old poem, and the rough translation is “Not knowing what the mountain is truly like is because one is in the mountain”. So one friendly advise, as many has suggested, get a perspective. Maybe go to Asia, Europe, or even Russia. Not just sightseeing, talk to the people, get to know the culture, try to blend in and really listen. That might as well just be the best lesson you have ever learnt. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:06 am You doubters need to listen up. These people speak the truth. I’ve met Linux users and underneath that thin veneer of beauty and elegance beats the heart of SATAN!. Oh I have been to Europe where they tempted me with the sins of the flesh and hard liquor. I saw how they gathered in rooms before stripping naked and exposing their firm, young bodies. I have seen them urinate on pictures of our beloved President! I saw them perform lewd acts with figurines of our beautiful Disney characters. How I wept when I saw what they did to Pluto. My friends it made me sick but I stayed to witness it so you could understand this evil, evil cult. I prayed as hard as I could when one of them – she could be no more than 16 – came to me and tempted me with more liquor and narcotics and offers of gratification outwith holy matrimony but I was weak and SATAN was strong and I was tempted. The Good Lord was not watching me that night so I fell into SATAN’S pit of depravity filled only with lithe young Linux users with no morals and none of the love of JESUS CHRIST OUR SAVIOUR. God forgive me for I have sinned. I pray every day that God wipes this vile plague from our planet and we are left only with racially pure Microsoft software. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:08 am artificially_awake, Q1: What’s the second meanest thing in the world? A1: A pitbull having AIDS Q2: And what’s the definitely meanest thing? A2: The person it got it from… So, it’s an honour for me to happen on the same blog with you, but praise relieve me from this stinging curiousity: how could you manage to do it with your goldfish :) ? Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:08 am In case you did not know, also America was invented by europeans. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:10 am Absolutely brilliant. You’ve got it one Shelly! Thanks for the best bit of objective computer-related reporting I’ve seen in many a long year. Oh, by the way, remember IBM, they actively support linux; remember Novell? they own SUSE, a linux distribution. Ever heard of Red Hat, the leading Linux Distribution? All these are AMERICAN companies. Oh, yeah, I suppose the Red Hat is a bit of a giveaway. Damn commies. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:13 am Tristan, I love your posting, it’s hilarious! I mailed it to all my friends. Some of them even think you are real!!! Cheers, /Capt. Kirk ssn April 27th, 2006 8:13 am i dont know if i should laugh or cry… Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:14 am Hi dickweed, Just a hint but computers are not actually an american invention… sorry to get all jihad-ist on your beliefs but I just couldn’t go on thinking you had got this one teensy tiny little fact wrong in an otherwise perfectly factual posting… Oh, and btw - I’m an “evil” atheist, but despite this I take comfort in the knowledge that if God really does exist (pfffft!) then he will forgive me and let me have a sweet afterlife with as much hedonism as you can shake a stick at. Yours jovially, Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:14 am oh Shelley, i strongly want to believe this post is just a joke and laugh at it but i have to be honest to myself and stop laughing. There is nothing funny in seeing how radical christian idiocy is ruling america. It’s also very sad to realize that this is not a marginal phenomenon since you maneged to elect the most stupid of you all to the White House. I’m just feeling sorry for the “good americans” that have to share the country with such stupidity, arrogance and ignorance. Everard Plumsucker April 27th, 2006 8:15 am I am a Great British subject of Her Majesty the Queen and I can state categorically and exclusively that it was Linux carried by an immigrant from Arabia that gave Bird Flu to the swan in Scotland. Swan’s are owned by her Majesty and it was that evil coalition of Arabs and Linux trying to bring down our noble monarch on her birthday which caused this. I need to sit down now. Ty April 27th, 2006 8:15 am Almost forgot to mention you might want to read this article http://ccur.com/isd_news_pressrelease.asp?pressreleaseid=423 If you don’t, apparently you are not a reader as we see, I will put the title of the article here: “Lockheed Martin selects Concurrentís RedHawk Linux for THAAD Missile Defense Program” You might start telling those people your “Professional” opinion, or just leave your country (since it is not safe anymore). Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:17 am yeah. Actually, UNIX created the network and most of the standards, protocols we’re using on it nowdays! Even Microsoft uses almost everything created by UNIX (the notion of directory trees .. pardon folders .. is a UNIX stuff, I mean the filesystem hierarchy). Also Microsoft uses BSD (a free UNIX like Linux though with another license allows to “steal” its source) code. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:17 am I am a liberal european crossdressing communist, and most of all, a total lunatic. I built a rocket launcher system on Linux that I am going to use to attack Iowa City at exactly 1700 CET today. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:18 am PURE COMEDY!!! you made my day guys :D god bless america! hahahahahaah European_Terrorist_Threat_To_America April 27th, 2006 8:20 am Very nice! You seem to be well educated and informed. Please spread your very meaningful opinion as far as possible! You should also consider a trip to Europe to thell these bastards personally these very well investigated facts. artificially_awake April 27th, 2006 8:23 am Anonymous said… artificially_awake, Q1: What’s the second meanest thing in the world? A1: A pitbull having AIDS Q2: And what’s the definitely meanest thing? A2: The person it got it from… So, it’s an honour for me to happen on the same blog with you, but praise relieve me from this stinging curiousity: how could you manage to do it with your goldfish :) ? – You’ll have to ask my dog. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:24 am Heh This article is fake, isn’t it? if it isn’t then we are in big-big trouble, because of u mighty americans Hey here in europe everyone is communist put guns under your pillows LOL Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:28 am All Christians must die in the name of liberty and justice. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:29 am I see that you’re paranoid about Linux, but are you blind too? At the moment Microsoft is developing the Windows Vista, and they’re copying the good old features from Linux, and putting them to the new version of Windows, as commercial! Check it yourself. ttyson April 27th, 2006 8:30 am I’m a Republican and I’m ashamed of the way that the above article portrays Republicans. Open source give us freedoms not found in closed source. http://tyson.homeunix.org Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:31 am that is the funniest computer article I have EVER read!!! you’ve got a bookmark in my browser and hell if i lived in your fear country Id be f**king voting republican too. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:32 am I love this!! no idea what you are talking about but I do know that I’m pleased Linus put his blanket away and invented this thingy. If this thingy is European then it can’t work and is probably a gayer and or worshipper of the Allan - either way it should be stopped on site and prayed at then shot!! Che Carsner April 27th, 2006 8:35 am This how it all happened, God created the world.. with Microsoft Frontpage on Windows6000BC, but his earth server got hacked by Satan, running a live distro of Whoppix. You see… Earthserver is notorious for having two flaws, a buffer overflow vulnerability, and a URL Chunk encoding flaw. Satan (aka Adrian Lamo) tried to warn God about these vulnerabilities, but was cast out of Heaven, because those aren’t vulnerabilities.. they are features. btw: Apache/1.3.34 Server at shelleytherepublican.com Port 80 Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:36 am I can see how LINUX would be bad news but American Patriots should be even more suspicious of the “Apple” systems as it isowned and run by Steve Jobs. Jobs is a far left moonbat but that is general knowledge. What he has hidden is much more dangerous; he is actually a SYRIAN ARAB MUSLIM named “Abdul Fatah”. His sister, Muna, is a well known Arab activist. They hide their true identities but a little research will prove my point; Steve Jobs is an enemy of America and all Christians! When you buy Apple products, you may as well send your money straight to al-Quaida! Carlos April 27th, 2006 8:39 am Out of curiosity, how is it possible that someone who knows as little about computers as yourself feels it is his right to bash something as american as open source? You list things like battleships and tv stations… surely you don’t think these entities are maintained using windows, do you?? Hell, a quick peek at uptime.netcraft.com shows that your site (shellytherepublican.com) is run on LINUX using APACHE. Do you really think that your website would be anything close to stable if it was run on windows using iis? No. The reason we DON’T have problems like television stations being compromised and battleships taken over is because any cruical or critical computing is DONE ON UNIX OR LINUX– hands down. Not to insult, but i have to tell you– opinion articles like this one do nothing but show how little you and your readership really know about the things you enjoy talking about. Inviting others to show articles like this to friends and co-workers do nothing more than illustrate this fact. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:41 am Now that we are telling out secrets: in fact, VISTA stands for: - Viruses - Intruders - Spyware - Trojans and - Adware Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:45 am Err, Colosus built in England during the 2nd world war is considered the first modern computer, if your for real you need to learn some history. As for Linux, it’s just a different business model, software for free or cheap and you pay for support. The start up nature of the linux market is giving opportunity for competitors to break into the market. Are you against a free market where competition can thrive as opposed to a capitalist monopoly just giving customers a bare minimum of choice and quality? Taff April 27th, 2006 8:47 am So who invented the computer? There are many different views on which aspects of the modern computer are the most central or critical. * Some people think that it’s the idea of using electronics for calculating — in which case another American pioneer, Atanasoff, should be credited. * Other people say it’s getting a computer actually built and working. In that case it’s either the tiny prototype at Manchester (1948), on the next Scrapbook Page, or the EDSAC at Cambridge, England (1949), that deserves greatest attention. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:49 am Great Satire Guys ;) Or did you REALLY mean This? *LOL* Great. Greetings from “Good old Europe”. “Linux is like a Wigwam, no GATES, no Windows, but an APACHE inside”. You know? Apaches are one of the REAL native American people who you the “real Americans” mass-murdered in the greed for ressources … Just to remind you. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:54 am This “article” rates as some of the most misinformed, inaccurate shit I have ever read. Euroghost April 27th, 2006 8:58 am New York City! Boston! Portland! San Fransisco! This is your wake up call! Leave the Union, declare your independence, you know must do it. You can’t afford for the rest of the world to see you in the company of these idiots. Sam April 27th, 2006 9:00 am I think this posting and this site is dangerously stupid. It reinforces the ‘America against the world’ feeling. It’s insulting for americans and gives a really bad image. I don’t know how can a person be that stupid! I’ve never seen that. Shelley and Tristan is living in the matrix or something… This can’t be true! Try to read something else than the bible or watch something else than tv reality! I won’t tell you to open your eyes because a blind person can not see. But I know you believe in miracles so one day you may notice your infinite stupidity. I thought it was a joke before reading the comments and noticing this way of thinking may be very dangerous. Sorry for my english. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:02 am tristan you are a complete faggot i hope you die in a fire. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:08 am omg the internet is a commie! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:12 am http://revart.blogs.com/photos/rev_arts_atheist_pinups/atheist_gates3.html Bill’s an atheist. Microsoft is an Godless corporate Soddom and Gommorrah. Heh. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:13 am American people. I only can wish u that once u will have enough power to climb over that wall what your goverment build around you, and you will see that the world is bigger than your neigberhood. Oh by the way i think all of you can remember that not long the ‘Mighty Microsoft’ was using LINUX base server, so why do they did that ? :D (Think about it) LINUX is not the devil. Look a bit closer, who is the devil ?! Who give out an OS whit bugs than fix it and give it out again whit new bugs and take the money again from you ?! Or the other side of the wolrd who try to give the humanity a chance to choose. Oh and about Bin Laden. He knows what to use, and how to use. America forced them to become Terrorist.(becouse they always want everything no mater what and no mater how). Oh and thx for this blog. I laught all day. :) Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:14 am I love ignorant podunk backwoods backwards redneck bible-belt hillbillies. This blog is awesome and your point of view the same. Why don’t you talk about something you have experience with like tractors or line dancing and leave thoughts on computers to people that have all their teeth. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:15 am Genius. Simply comic genius! :D I got as far as ‘Osama uses Linux’ before I damn near expired with laughter! Hang on, let me just go remove my linux installations before the Chinese invade the gigaweb. As long as you know it is stultifyingly stupid people such as you guys that keep me in the job fixing PCs of all types IN EUROPE!!! OMG SATAN-SPAWN IT SUPPORT BUSH SAVE US!!!1!1 Keep up the good work! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:19 am LOL :) Dude, you are dumb. First of all: Computer is an american development??? hahaha… Do you know who invented the first real computer? A Hungarian man, named János Neumann. The first transistor (do you know what that is??? :)) was made in Germany, the first microprocessor also. Oh, and one more thing: your cool, american PC was made in China, except for the processor, that is Malay. And now about Linux. Sure, it is easier to use Windows, because it is designed for dummies (like you), while Linux is made by professionals for professionals. It is simply better: cheaper (free) safer, faster and more stable. You don’t beleive that most of the internet is running on Linux? Well, use nmap to… oh, it only works on Linux, so you can’t use it, how sad… so, nmap is a program that can remotely determine what operating system is running on a machine or a server. Do you trully think that companies will pay thousands of dollars to buy a Windows Server OS, and another thousands to buy all the applications they need to run a web-server, when they can downlad a free, and a lot better Linux with all server applications built in? you are pathetic… Djeb April 27th, 2006 9:20 am please, tell me that this article is a joke. If it is not, you are totally ignorant in computer, or you’re stupid, as you want TJ April 27th, 2006 9:21 am Is this for real? Do you guys actually believe that Linux harms american people? I havent read more ridiculous in my entire life? Osama using linux to harm americans, Mac OS-x used to transmit information to communists? What next? Are you guys sure I-pods are’nt really mp3 players but walking talking cyborgs under the control of the red army that are going to kill us in our sleep? FYI, your “american made” IBM laptop, was most probably produced and manufactured and finished by chinese linux hacking evil communists in some chinese warehouse. Or did you forget that most electronics these days are made in China? Who ever wrote this article is mad. PS: “If you see a company using Linux, it may be that they have not paid for this software.” You dont pay for linux u n00b, and its perfectly legal. Please grow up and come back and write something “mature and sensible”. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:22 am Wow. Just, wow. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:24 am Every time you post a blog… …you are using linux. If you really feel this way and don’t want to use linux you will take down your blog that is running on linux now. You are truely retarded. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:25 am Thank you all, for the most wonderful satire since ‘Dr. Strangelove’ Djeb April 27th, 2006 9:26 am Oh, I’m happy to know that you’re not stupid, but ignorant : TRISTAN said : >For example Linux has no built-in anti-virus or anti-spyware software yes, and do you know why ? because there is no virus or spyware working on linux. And you do you know why ? because linux is safe and doesn’t need severall programs, patches, in order to work, as windows. A virus or spyware can’t do nothing under linux. You don’t need programs to protect you. But, as windows is not able to protect you, you need anti-virus and anti-spyware. That’s the point Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:29 am You are so so so stupid, just because you don’t understand something that makes it bad does it? How small minded can you get. And as for associations between terror and Linux, seems like they are clever enough to use the best tools they can get their hands on AK47’s, Linux… As for being secure - Linux is OPEN SOURCE which means you can see all the code and how the program works, and does Bill Gates let us look at his code? NO ! ! And is there any underlying code that could create portals to microsoft so uncle Bill can snoop what you’re doing? who knows but i bet your bottom dollar he has and most likely is. I really hope your registry falls over and your MBR vanishes into a cloud of blue smoke. Gregouze April 27th, 2006 9:29 am I think this article is fake. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:31 am according to uptime.netcraft.com… “http://shelleytherepublican.com was running Apache on Linux when last queried at 27-Apr-2006 07:26:59 GMT” - alexturgid Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:31 am This is truly sad! Im really shocked on how ignorant a human being like the writer of this article can be. You wanna kill all red haired people also? you know they might be commies (red army) This is from europe to all you religius fuck heads! Fuck you and seriusly get real. You know the biggest treat to world piece atm is ur presius president, Mr. Bush. Not some free ware OS. PS: The computer wich you wrote this paranoya article on is most likely produced by some chinise terrorist, but you don’t wanna listen to that , huh? Religius fuck head Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:31 am SHELLEY! Please pray for me and my linux machine so I won’t feel guilty while jacking off to internet porn tonight using Mozilla! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:32 am Defense of America ? Well, if your article shows anything, it is that you got manipulated by the underground forces of terrorist propaganda. Let’s see briefly how your ignorance is hurting the American citizens that give themselves every day to the Flag and the Bible to protect the values of their ancestors. 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. No, it isn’t. Communists would like Americans to believe that, so they can say: “see, those US guys ? keeping every bit of technology for themselves !”. In fact, computers were invented by a worldwide “network” of scientists, initially united to fight the barbary of nazism during WWII. Americans didn’t invent the computers, and they should be proud of it ! Proud ? Yes ! Because it shows that, unlike the USSR at the same period of time, they *did* push forward their democratic model of cooperation and sharing, which allowed computers to become a reality. USSR never made great computers because the commies were so self-proud of themselves that they couldn’t understand that freedom and cooperation were decisive factors in the scientifical field. By stating that “America invented computers”, not only you’re looking ridiculously ignorant of history, but also stomp on the very American idea that Freedom (in this case, of information exchange) leads to progress. And that’s exactly what the terrorists want you to do. For example, this rugged IBM laptop I am using was designed and built by an American company. It runs software built by Microsoft, one of America’s most productive organizations. My computer does everything I could possibly want: I can do my work, submit my taxes and even search the Bible. Baaad example ! We know for long that IBM sold itself to external forces - it just only publicely admitted it by selling its laptop division to a Chinese(!) manufacturer ! You know what a real patriot would have done in that case ? Get rid of that IBM hardware that’s the symbol of a treacherous act. And you’d want people here to believe that IBM is American in heart, when it is ready to sell itself to a country that is one of the hardest communist state today ? And what about Microsoft ? Microsoft, who nowadays drapes itself in clothes of patriotism now that it needs the support of the US to fight back the legal threats, destroyed a lot of successful businesses, American businesses, driving a whole part of the market to extinction by its devious monopolistic manipulations of the law. And where, because of the impossibility for American competitors to survive to this, went innovation and competition outside MS ? You don’t know ? Go asking the Chinese ! Your computer does everything you want ? Yeah, sure, and even more, like asking you to enter a key to install Windows on it, or leave gates open to malware - strangely enough, a problem that Microsoft was never able to solve in a satisfying way, despite their colossal industrial force. Or maybe they didn’t want you to get a clean, secure computer ? Think about it - who can benefit from poor OS security, if not terrorists and other child abusers ? Like all the greatest American engineering, it’s an example of innovation that makes a growing group of European and Chinese hackers jealous. They hate our lead in computing technology and will stop at nothing until they have control of all of our computers. You must be joking, right ? I’ve been several times in Europe for various IT-related missions, and most of them actually laugh at the pathetic state of the US IT security. Chinese hackers are a big threat to security because they are much better than most of those found in America - if not, we wouldn’t have to even give those commies a thought. But, of course, what would the Chinese propaganda want US citizens to believe ? That the US technological knowledge is lagging behind theirs, and that a strong effort is needed to close the gap ? No ! That would be really a stupid thing to say ! They want you to believe that you *are* the leaders, and that nobody can get higher than your shoes in the IT field - so when they decide to hack your systems, they easily take you by surprize. So stop the disinformation there - you’re playing the game the terrorists want you to play for them. 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. God Saves Us all from uninformed people like you ! Back then, SCO didn’t even exist in its current shape - actually, the company now called “SCO” once *sold* Linux distributions ! Now, the SCO case is interesting, for several aspects: - SCO was doing quite well before starting to attack Linux; - SCO attacked not only Linux, but mostly some big guys like Novell or IBM (that had, back then, solid ties in the US market); - SCO got a lot of money from “elsewhere” to defend its cause - but from where exactly ? Who had an interest to see them glued in such a long trial ? - Since then, SCO - which was mostly an American business, and an important one, dropped again and again, and will probably close its doors after the trial is finished. Result: An important American company destroyed, several others possibly having their reputation damaged, and Linux still doing fine. Ask yourself: wasn’t SCO manipulated by an external power to hurt the IT part of the American industry ? It seems pretty obvious to everybody sane enough to analyze facts without diving in the crappy propaganda found in too many newspapers. 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. Remember how communism worked in the USSR ? Somebody well-seen by the government wanted to sell a new car. He gives money to the proper officials and *bam*, one year later, you can only buy the cars he produces (or be tortured, jailed, or whatever else). That’s how their planified economy worked - “everybody will get what WE (the government) say, and nothing else, whatever the quality of the product”. Now, analyze what MS tried to do with Windows ? Exactly the same thing ! So of course, Ballmer describes Linux as a cancer - just like stuff made in the Free Western World was pointed as “dangerous propaganda products” by the government of the USSR and other communist countries. These days computers control everything from TV stations to battleships; Our crucial information and defense infrastructure is built on computer technology. If we allow this cancer into our networks, there is no knowing what the effect might be on our infrastructure, but that is just what liberals are trying to do. I don’t know what liberals are trying to do - but would you want to put the future of your country in the sole hands of a single player - and one that is only interested by increasing its profits ? What if Tomorrow, China makes an offer so good to MS that they switch side ? Linux is an advantage because it cannot be controlled exclusively by a single person or group of persons - it is immune to dictatorship. How could one of the fundamental principles of America - Democracy - be better embodied ? Imagine if the State of the Union address were hacked because the TV station decided to save money by using Linux? Imagine if a stealth-bomber crashed because it’s software was written by anonymous Chinese or European hackers. It would make as much sense as inviting the French to come over and take over the White-House. But there is nothing that prevents American experts to analyze the hackers’ code to check if there are anything dangerous in it. On the other hand, no independent expert could easily analyze Windows’s code, making impossible to know if it doesn’t contain any threat. On one side, you have a building that policemen can freely investigate to find bombs; on the other, you have one that they cannot enter in, with a single guy that tells them “everything is ok, I assure you”. Where is the most dangerous threat ? 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. We don’t know what Osama is using at all - or maybe you have contacts with the terrorist movements ? We readers are very happy to learn that for sure ! Maybe you don’t know it, but most of the illegal DVD copies are made using systems other than Linux. And it is actually *easier* to do it with some Windows softwares ! If one of your friends is using Linux or may be tempted to try it show them this article. Explain that Linux is a genuine threat and that by using it they may be opening their computer to Chinese hackers. I know what a real patriot should do: Read your site to see how a true American-In-Heart can be fooled by communist propaganda. Yes, I know you are sincerely convinced to do your best to defend America. But you are obviously manipulated, blinded by media long sold to the promotion of lobbies that see the freedom of American citizens as an obstacle to their goals. Or worse. Communist Nazi April 27th, 2006 9:33 am Nice going Shelley! How nice of you to blame the rest of the world for ruining the holy USA. BTW: Linux isn’t European, it is being developed all over the world, including, or like Shelley would say, “The satanic communist liberals” of America. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:33 am Oh my dear God help America, they’re so completely lost. Luckily I don’t believe the shelleytristanguys are seriously writing that ridiculous crap. J Fresh April 27th, 2006 9:34 am um…no, you can’t be serious. What do you have against linux or any other software that is made by Microsoft? I would seriously like to talk to you in person about this. if you ever use aol instant messanger my screen name is jthamexican and my email address is jthamexican@hotmail.com please, i have to know why you are so ignorant. Gentoo user April 27th, 2006 9:35 am This entire blog is obviously a gigantic troll you guys. Kudos to the author for fooling you saps. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:36 am See that shiny internet thing you’re using? Invented by a Brit. With a lot of help from Americans, scientist bods at CERN and the French who finalised a few protocols, but ultimately, a Brit invented it. Oh and two words. Pearl Harbour. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:40 am i doubt that osama, living as a nomad in the pakistani mountains, has even the electricity to run a computer! ;) so what for would he need any operating system? … Xyo April 27th, 2006 9:45 am I think this article is very ridiculous. Or maybe you should see what Microsoft windows could do for you. Like a spyware includes in both of windows since windows 98 ? Windows is too expensive, and linux take a very good part of OS market. Don’t forget that Bill has stolen all ideas from Jobs’ OS. Maybe see you ;) Adam April 27th, 2006 9:46 am When will the American population realise that their ideology and basic existance is all about “Us vs. Them” Not to mention that if it wasn’t for the “Europeans” half of the “American” population wouldn’t be there today. Why not stand by the convictions you preach and allow alternatives and not bash them just because someone you find a threat uses it. Oh wait, a serial killer used a knife to kill their victims. We must all cut our food with a fork because we’re all serial killers. Seriously, sit down and fucking think how stupid you are making yourself out to be. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:46 am oh Shelley, i strongly want to believe this post is just a joke and laugh at it but i have to be honest to myself and stop laughing. There is nothing funny in seeing how radical christian idiocy is ruling america. It’s also very sad to realize that this is not a marginal phenomenon since you maneged to elect the most stupid of you all to the White House. I’m just feeling sorry for the “good americans” that have to share the country with such stupidity, arrogance and ignorance. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:47 am Hi, I hope you can cope with the fact that you are going to support communism when you buy your next “IBM” laptop. And please be nice and give honour to those who deserve it: Although Americans were certainly among the computer poineers, the British did use computers to decipher the German ENIGMA code during the 2nd world war. And even (can such injustice exist?) in Nazi Germany, there were people that build computers. I wonder what the world would look like if we had started off with Plankalkül as the first programming language… l0b0 April 27th, 2006 9:51 am JHC on a stick; there sure are a lot of gullible people out there. Osama’s laptop? ROFLMAO! pt April 27th, 2006 9:54 am I’m speachless! I’ve never had such a tremendous laugh!!!!! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:58 am Are you americans f**** stupid or something? Why should users pay for expensive american products with all sorts of bugs in when it is an another alternative called linux? It’s free, makes the computer faster than running under xp and more stable. If you think I’m a terrorist cause I use linux I feel very sorry for you. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:59 am So computers were invented by Americans. Well no - actually Mr Babbage of the UK did that. And the earliest counting machines were in fact Chinese. Oh dear. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:59 am How do you know what OS bin laden has on his laptop? Did he show it to you while you were giving him head maybe? DJ Krypplephite April 27th, 2006 9:59 am I’m going to take this as a joke because there is no way in hell you’re actually serious. Pretty hilarious read, I’m grabbing this and posting it on my blog, it’s too funny not to pass on! Also, this article now has official publication in the IT industry, as featured on: http://theinquirer.net/ Also: In case there is anybody out there reading this and agreeing with it . . . well I suppose there’s no hope for you. I’m a pretty hardline Republican but I’m not an idiot. I have SuSe and Redhat Linux running alongside Windows on my computers, and I can guarantee Bin Laden has bigger plans than circumventing DRM protection on DVDs. Hilarious! I haven’t pirated any DVDs running Linux, although I do know of pretty much every piracy tool and the fact that they are almost ALL available (if not exclusively) for Windows. I’m also not sure how Apple managed to get such a ‘liberal’ appeal, but I would suppose it’s because they’re different. No company could possibly get that big living by liberal financial principles. It just defies everything the world is based on. Popular companies don’t make software for Linux because it has no desktop marketshare. Frontpage is about the worst program ever invented, and if you use it, you should be shot, plain and simple. If you have the required skill to make a half-assed website, you could just hand-code it yourself in basic HTML. It’s not tough. In fact there are tools for defragging a hard disk, and most versions will come with this built-in. And yeah, it’s true, most of the internet runs on Linux, since it’s more stable than windows, doesn’t have as bad memory leaks, and is also sexy. I’d argue more, but I just don’t care enough, and this has to be a joke. Nobody is this dumb. DJ Krypplephite April 27th, 2006 9:59 am This post has been removed by the author. Carlos April 27th, 2006 10:00 am i am surprised no one has told you that most of SCO claims are due to small bits of code in a secion of unix that has to do with multi processor support. the linux OS was written well before SCO bought the rights to a variant of UNIX that linux is alegedly using code from. Linux while it was true that it was started in finland actually is written here in the US now. Linus works for a non-profit organization here in the US. Let me tell you that Windows was initially stolen by Gates from Steve Jobs. Windows hasnt ever had built in Anti Virus or Anti Spyware. Linux doesnt need those because it is more inherently secure but also that the hacker base has more practice on windows. I am a republican and i can see that most republicans would not have anything to do with you because of your flagrant ignorance. also when you stated that Apple contributes to the communist party you might want to substantiate that with proof. that is libel and can land you in court if you are not careful. there are mostly united states companies that develop and distribute linux, ie novell, IBM, Red Hat software, and guess what SCO offers a variant of linux or did at one time before they bought the unix rights. i suggest that you find the history of computers you would see that steve balmer is not a computer expert but a salesman. Gates is no more a visionary than a cheap profiteer. And most of windows software written by microsoft was taken from open source projects. its web browser for one thing was written on the core of an early browser. just because there are some distros that are given away for free doesnt mean all have been. in fact some distros make profit off supporting thier distro instead of profiting off the code itself. which is a perfectly good business model if you ask me. its one thing to bash linux’s security, opensource ideology, or usability but to actually state it was written by communists is absurd at best. i hope one day the republican party is rid of fanatics like your self it makes us look bad. You want to state that democrats are freedom haters but Bush has done more to restrict our freedoms in the name of terrorism than anyone in history. also the DRM legislation robs americans of simple freedoms to take the music and make backup copies in case the original is damaged. And also i am more able on a windows machine able to copy dvd’s than i have ever been able to on a linux machine. i run both and i still havent figured out how i am supposed to copy dvd’s for my own backups. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:02 am Yes! You are right! The Linux gurus are planning to defeat software giants like MS! And yes, you can not do anything to prevent this, muhahaha! The idea of open source communal development (not communist) will free the world from US tyranny! Btw funny seeing all those silly ppl catching it hook line and sinker :-) DJ Krypplephite April 27th, 2006 10:04 am I bet you anything Bill Gates is masturbating to this post, RIGHT NOW. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:06 am HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH thisa is the funniest parody site ever! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:10 am This was a hilarious post, but turned into something horrible. HOW is it possible that so many people here don’t see this is a joke? Are people of today TOTALLY BLIND to sarcasm? Ánnoying to see people come up to “set records straight” as the all-knowing-gits they think they are, and tell the other guy that he’s stupid while at the same time showing complete ignorance and stupidity of their own! Nice blog! Stupid commenters! :P Total_ko April 27th, 2006 10:12 am What do you think about freebsd, netbsd or openbsd I think they are free not develop by europeans Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:12 am I can’t believe some of you are still taking this seriously..i refuse to believe you still think it’s a sincere article. You all must realize that you are participating in the punchline of one very drawn out joke, audience participation style joke. Athan April 27th, 2006 10:13 am I really do hope this is not real. I personally know one (1) good American and none(0) of other kind. Still my mental picture of “stereotypical American” is ignorant zealot. I know that larger the group gets louder is the noise generated by idiots (in Finland we have this saying: “joukossa tyhmyys tiivistyy”, basically it means that: “in group, idiotism grows” or similar.. ). I still want to believe that there is some good in human race, even in America. Please prove me wrong, plese prove me that people who really think like this is minority (yes mr. bush was elected by minority, really democratic :). Please prove me this is a joke. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:19 am I truly hope this is a parody site, because if it isn’t, there are so many holes in your research that your roof could fall through it in one piece. Linux is far from primitive. It is fully functional. It does not need thousands of anti-virus suites because it is designed secure by nature with regular security updates, unlike microsoft, which sits on security fixes for months or even years. I hope you enjoy reinstalling your Windows software every 6 months to a year due to some registry crash or another, or enjoy the fact that it is generally wide open for attack because of the shoddy operating system of a company who wants to keep extorting money out of their users. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:21 am I guess people really CAN be this stupid. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:21 am 1) You are talking bollocks. 2) Computers / Steam / Electricity / Anything at all useful - was invented by the British 3) Linux don’t fall over all the time like windows 4) I suggest you grow up Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:22 am You also think that copmuters are an american invention, May be you should look up your history, The first computer was designed and build in England just after the second world war in 1948. This was designed by one Alan Turing, who developed most of the computer principles used today, and where was he from, ENGLAND The US didn’t build their first true computer until 1952. http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/fcomp.shtml And back in the 18th century the first machine was designed by a charles babbage ( again english ) So who invented the computer??? RainFX April 27th, 2006 10:24 am Fantastic. And remember kids, every time you use Linux, a kitten dies. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:24 am ah ahahaha hilarious! Look how many people you got. Its funny when people say how rediculous your post was and then don’t clue in. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:28 am Shelly, have you ever considered loosing your virginity by a berzerk communist penguin?? you might discover you actually like the feeling and want to join our community of greedy, pervert, blasfems, sodonists Linux enthusiasts! Come one Shelly, cum with us!! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:29 am Are you a fucking idiot? Get your facts straight before posting your opinion. Second off, post the sources verifying your information. Do you have a computer science degree, computer engineering degree, or equivalent? Do you have a master’s degree in a computer science related field? Have you seen what most major Universities use for servers? It’s Linux and UNIX (Berkley, MIT, Pitt, Penn State, Harvard, etc). Berkley has even been involved in building UNIX variants from scratch. In fact they are one of the innovators of UNIX. AT&T (A US Company) was highly involved in building UNIX operating systems for its telephone systems! Yes, every time you make a call Shelly, your using UNIX. IBM made an operating system named OS/2, which pieces of the code have been incorporated into many major UNIX/Linux variants. Did you know many of the parts and the computers themselves IBM makes are done over seas? In fact, the company that produces their machines re-brands and re-sells them under a generic name. Have you read security reports on the virus leaks and issues within Windows itself? Did you know many of the US Fortune 500 companies use Linux/UNIX? No wonder why the press did not want you article. You did no research, and have no sources to back your words. BTW: I am a Windows Developer developing the next generation of software for Windows Vista and the .NET Platform. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:32 am Thanks you! You just proved how stupid and ignorants Americans can be. Sweet! Just keep feeding the world with enough reasons to make them hate you… Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:36 am Computers and modern Computer Science was invented by non-Americans, mostly British. One of the leading computing pioneers was gay aswell (google: Alan Turing. That is, if you can still use Google, with its awful Linux foundation)! Oh my God, shelley, you’ll just have to throw your computer out the window right now!! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:38 am Hi are you on crack? You’re honestly trying to argue that free, open source software is evil just because it’s made by Europeans? You don’t back up your claim that Linux is inferior to Windows (which is untrue). And the fact that you base the rest of your rant on the idea that Europeans and Asians are all out to get us is even more disturbing. I’ll tell you what… get off your nationalist soap box, get some dick in you, smoke a joint, and shut the fuck up. LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU THERES A COMMUNIST!!!!!!! fucking reject Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:39 am Tristan, you’re a fucking idiot. Please go jump off a building along with all your idiot friends.. Oh, I forgot, you don’t have any. Asshole. rucito April 27th, 2006 10:39 am What a bunch of square-minded guys!!! It´s not woth it to tell anything to so simple people. you go on working with that Windows crap while the rest of the world evolves into developed and intelligent techno-users. Americans are always like this: stupid-selfish-ignorants. Patrick April 27th, 2006 10:41 am If you or any of your loved ones had suffered from the horrible disease that is cancer i doubt you would use the word so lightly in your writings. Frankly I find your use of it disgusting, and its use alone proves you to be a mindless idiot. I hope you feel proud of yourself. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:42 am Quote: “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.” I thought bin Laden & co was funded by the Bush administration, but I guess I was wrong… It’s Linux! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:43 am I didn’t know such nonsense could get written. Thanks for a good laugh ! Yes Linux IS communist. It just happens to be a form of communism that WORKS !. Get yourself a working brain before we can carry on this discussion. Richard April 27th, 2006 10:43 am Dear Shelley Goodman Do you wonder why the entire planet takes the piss out of Americans? Because of ignorant, right-wing and *dangerous* idiots like you! You give the US and Christians a bad name. Fool. Everyone is laughing at you. Please, for the sake of your country and your children, educate yourself. Richard Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:45 am Shelley & Tristan. I believe you. Your website is all American. I can smell it. I checked and it is running via a Big Mac interface. Throw pickles at them all. Kentucky Fry them. Shit yeah. Don’t let reality get in the way of a good commie plot. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:46 am Just awesome, made my day this, I look forward the to the next debate. “How to get my head out of my arse!” Come on Shelly and friends post some more, keeps us rolling in the isles… Or if your too busy dunking witches in the local lake to see if they float, I am sure we will understand. All my love you crazy goons! X daemons and perls April 27th, 2006 10:50 am hi shelly! Well not only your blog is running on a Linux Server, but it is actually run by a daemon, called the «apache daemon» Daemons owns your website F34R !!!! I R A Darth Aggie April 27th, 2006 10:52 am I think thou art trolling for hits, but here’s a little light reading: SElinux an NSA project US Army purchases 5 Linux super computers More DoD Linux supercomputing efforts War game simulations run on Linux Department of Energy is modelling Gulf coast storm surges on a Linux supercomputer Even the National Weather Service is getting in on the act! And the Federal Courts, too! NASA is also putting Linux to good use. The American software industry is worth more than $7 Billion; Introducing a foreign product like Linux which is often copied for free could threaten that entire industry. That “industry” is naught but a big, fat, tax on the rest of America’s businesses and governments. We aren’t here to insure Microsoft (a convicted monopolist, BTW) a steady income. GOD April 27th, 2006 11:05 am Shelley…you know nothing about computers. You think you do because you have created a blog. But if you look carefully, anyone can create a blog. Creating an online blog does not mean you know much about computers, in fact, you have prooven you know nothing about computers. When other poster leave a comment which refernce ACTUAL information and other webpages, you choose to reference your friends or other blogs. An in light of this blinding light that is knowledge to you, you become rude, unopen to inteligent debat choosing instead to preach the mindless babbling of a drunk, stinking hobo. I hope you don’t produce children. They don’t deserve this ignorance. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 11:05 am Congratulations! If you wanted your 15 minutes of fame to consist of the whole of Europe (to start with) laughing at you, you’ve managed to do a really great job. Only this lasts longer. I expect a wikipedia submit of this “article” any day now. Oh. And greetings from Finland. Us comerades love your humour. Ø. Haugan@Norway April 27th, 2006 11:07 am LOL!!! Now i am really sure that half of america is infected of stupid people. And by beeing so fanatic, u remind me of old Hitler Germany. G.W.Bush = Hitler. Heil Bush!!!! OMFG, get a life over there!!! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 11:09 am Man, this is a great troll! Great work! Hilarious! Floffe April 27th, 2006 11:12 am tristan shuddery wrote… Were Google considering using Linux in their computers it would hardly invalidate my original points, sspeifically that our national information and defense infrastructure may succumb to this “cancer”. [snip] Regardless of what Google may think of Linux; it is still the choice of terrorists, paedophiles and democrats. I think we can judge this product by the company it keeps. It’s the choice for the NSA, and to be honest my guess would be that most pedophiles use windows. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 11:13 am “in fact it omits features that were standard in Windows back in 1998; For example Linux has no built-in anti-virus or anti-spyware software.” Fact: Windows XP also has no built-in AV or AS..not even since 1998 :-p There are so many bug-eyed inaccuracies in this article, it’s hard to know where to begin, but for a start defragging tools are not really necessary under linux, as linux uses superior filesystems that do not get fragmented as badly as windows. I’m not suprised that the mainstream IT press has ignored this ‘article’, it contains far too many lies. keusta April 27th, 2006 11:14 am tu te feras la traduction toi meme gros con.. j’espere que tous les américains ne sont pas aussi stupide que toi. Ta vision restreinte du monde à ta culotte me fait penser au petit facho à l’esprit étriqué. Sors de chez toi, va faire un tour dehors et peut etre tu verras la vérité en face… Britich April 27th, 2006 11:17 am oh god, this is so true. Linux is evil and funded by Alan queida (hes lives on 43rd and main in chicago) watch this to keep yourself safe: http://eclectech.co.uk/images/mindcontrol.swf and this site may help some too, make sure you browse the menu system and learn all you can.. IT IS VITAL. http://zapatopi.net/afdb/ Anonymous April 27th, 2006 11:19 am Forget about Linsux, install the american made, FreeBSD. check out.. http://www.freebsd.org It can run everything that linux can run and more. Mikko Sandt April 27th, 2006 11:22 am “Introducing a foreign product like Linux which is often copied for free could threaten that entire industry.” Oh yeah - competition is bad! Go fuck yourself you stupid Christian commie. And stop calling European and American left-wing pinkos “liberals” since it has got nothing to do with liberalism. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 11:24 am Ahh, you stupid Americans always manage to surprise us (”the rest of the world”). How insanely stupid and arrogant you can be? “Linux aids terrorists!” So-fucking-what… BTW, I live in Finland, if you don’t like Linux you (americans) are free to come and bomb our country. Just come and try… do you know what we did to the guys who previously tried to invade Finland? That’s right, we kicked their ass! Stupid Americans indeed… always thinking they are the “world police” when they are just sinking deeper into shit. Just look what Bush is doing: attacking other countries for oil and for their own selfish reasons. And don’t get me started on your religious issues: Christian shitheads and maniacs running country… David April 27th, 2006 11:25 am LOL! What a fag! First of all, Linux is nothing more than a branch of UNIX, which is an all-american invention. Oh! BTW, OSX is nothing else than a better implementation of the same concept! Second, Microsoft seems to be getting jealous of the _communist_ (LMAO!) Linux and OSX operating systems because it’s trying to implement features (secure user accounts, OS level security, etc.) that OSX and Linux had for years. Third, MSFT is going into harms way because of it’s own inability to create a really good product that can compete head to head with (for example) the _communist_ OSX. So, let’s face it: it’s going to hell because of free competition, which is one of the strongest pillars upon which the American economy lives. Ah… nah! forget that, that was before Bush came, that is. Last, but not least, nothing can be taken seriously from a person who is a declared Bush admirer! Man! I never saw such a demonstration of where America is heading. YOU MAKE ME PROUD OF BEING AN AMERICAN BUT LIVING ABROAD! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 11:25 am Bloody hilarious American “Politicians” just make me laugh… …if your gonna rant about something, rant about something you know about… P.S. I’m a European that uses Linux and XP nabi April 27th, 2006 11:26 am Ca serais possible d’avoir une traduction française du site ? tony April 27th, 2006 11:28 am > “Linux: A European threat to our computers” Its official name is “GNU/Linux”, instead of “Linux”. http://www.gnu.org http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html GNU/Linux is not only Europian “threat”, but International. Especially American. :-) http://www.fsf.org/about/contact.html ::: Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor Boston, MA 02110-1301 !!! USA !!! ::: > “I’m talking about a project called ‘Linux’, something you may not have encountered, but might do some day.” Why not even a project called “glibc”, or “gcc”? Those are also indispensable part of GNU/Linux operation system? Just a tip: because “American” or you never heard about them? Is Linus Torvalds American or Finn in the USA? :-) > “… circumventing valuable copyrights and patents owned by an American company called SCO Group.” Which SCO is that? That has fallen on that litigation? :-) > “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.” Karl Marx’s only mistake was with Communism, he thought one party government members will be elected from all academics by average people in every 6 month. But, as we know, average people most like to elect advertised idiots, and presently they eat any bullshit from television without a tiny doubt. (because The Big Television said that…) :-) > “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. Is it the same Steve Ballmer was throwing chairs in he’s office and roaring that: “… GOOGLE IS NOT A REAL COMPANY!!!” ? Well he probably knows that what GNU/Linux is. :-) > “The American software industry is worth more than $7 Billion; Introducing a foreign product like Linux which is often copied for free could threaten that entire industry. Just a question: is Novell an American company? :-) And a note for the “only economy attitude” above: Our civilisation is built on a planet. This planet is owned by the Nature, and not by people are living on it. Just try to leave your property untached for at least 20 years. It’s real owner will move in. Then what would be the effect on our economy if this real owner wants everithing back we rent, or starts make us pay for borrowing of natural resourses by mankind? (e.g. one tree planting for one barrel of oil from the ground) The nature doesn’t know economy, countries or trade competation. Then what would be the effect on the entire economy, if we stop getting everithing for free? :-) BTW, just search these words in the Bible: “economy”, “nature”. Which is victorious word? :-) > “These days computers control everything from TV stations to battleships; Our crucial information and defense infrastructure is built on computer technology. If we allow this cancer into our networks, there is no knowing what the effect might be on our infrastructure, but that is just what liberals are trying to do.” Yes, there is knowing: anybody has access to the source code, not just one company saying “maybe truth” about it. That’s a pretty big risk to trust blindly anybody in the present world. Why people would trust more a company is saying - about its closed technology - than their own eyes? So, with your own words: “Our crucial information and defense infrastructure is built on computer technology. If we allow this cancer (cancer=closed technology) into our networks, there is no knowing what the effect might be on our infrastructure” :-) > “Imagine if the State of the Union address were hacked because the TV station decided to save money by using Linux? Imagine if a stealth-bomber crashed because it’s software was written by anonymous Chinese or European hackers. It would make as much sense as inviting the French to come over and take over the White-House.” For first, if a stealth bomber manufacturer’s noob QA accepts any “hacked” code, that’s the manufacturer’s responsibility. BTW, how could a Chinese or Europian “hacker” specify that which stealth bomber must crash? :-) little reading about airplanes: http://news.zdnet.com/5208-1009-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=5348&messageID=111159&start=34 > “And guess what software Osama Bin Laden uses on his laptop?” Windows? Ask your President, he is the next who should know that, they’re very good friends for about 20 years. :-) http://www.konformist.com/911/osama-bush.htm ::: Money connections between Bush Republicans and Osama bin Laden go way back and the political and economic connections have remained unbroken for 20 years. And what appears to be a “new” alliance with Pakistan is merely a new manifestation of a decades-long partnership in the heroin trade. ::: > “If you guessed it was Linux you would be 100% right.” Why even GNU/Linux? Is that the only alternative OS you know? There are plenty of free operation systems, you probably never heard about them: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DFlyBSD, … :-) > “Fortunately Microsoft have prepared a great deal of information to help computer users get away from this menace.” Quality? Guarantee? :-) > “But there is something you can do to help keep American #1 in the computer business: If one of your friends is using Linux or may be tempted to try it show them this article.” And the comments, especially. :-) > “Report them to the Business Software Alliance who have the legal authority …” Is BSA an authority? :-O ::: The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is a nonprofit trade association created to advance the goals of the software industry and its hardware partners. ::: http://www.bsa.org/usa/about/Membership-Details.cfm#who1 > “FOR GOD, FREEDOM AND GEORGE W. BUSH - ONE NATION UNDER GOD” “Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer” regards tony :-) Anonymous April 27th, 2006 11:30 am It’s a bit soon to start joking about this I think. Sure, it’s a bit fun that people actually think like this, but it’s more tragic IMO. The sorry little american farmers that think communists are evil with no exeption just because that’s what some guy on TV said. More tragic than fun.. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 11:31 am Oh dear the cancer has already reached the centre of the US Govt. You’d better let George know that he’s hosting his website on a cancerous platform. http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.whitehouse.gov and you are already the unwitting pawn of the conspiracy. http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.blogger.com Turn off your computer and get praying. The world is about to end!!! Thanks for a hilarious troll. If it isn’t a spoof I would seek professional psychiatric help. You need it. Liberal LINUX user April 27th, 2006 11:35 am Oh My GOD!! This could possibly one of the most ignorant things I have ever seen. It is obvious that you do not know anything about computers or technology. Here are a few things you might not know: 1) Linux is an operating system (like Windows) that runs on the UNIX platform. It was created by Linus Torvalds with help from people around the world. Including America. 2) Linux is used in many government programs for its security and they ability to customize it to whatever application is needed. 3) Linux is far superior to Windows in just about every way. From security to user control. 4) IBM has been purchased by Lenovo. A chinese company. So it is no more a wonderful american made notebook. Oh and next time you try to quote a computer expert; don’t go to Steve Balmer. Real journalists find unbias sources, and he isn’t much of an “expert”. Just part owner of a computer company. DzarGol April 27th, 2006 11:35 am [TROLL] hihi huhu MWHAHAHAHAHA two choices: in one hand, you are joking (and it worked, lol), in the other hand, you are really stupid. For the second choice, it is an other proof that we are right, in the “old” Europe to say that you are all dumb… I hope for you that there is some people a little less dumb than the others… So, I want to say “hello” from an “old” european, unix freak, freedom and liberty lover (some qualities that you don’t have…) bye [END OF TROLL] Anonymous April 27th, 2006 11:38 am yes, they should use that as a strap line. Linux: terroists love it. and the computer was invented in Europe. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 11:43 am Shelley your site runs on Linux. I suppose you’re probably a liberal commie pretending to be a nazi neocon. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=shelleytherepublican.com tony April 27th, 2006 11:43 am “The sorry little american farmers that think communists are evil with no exeption just because that’s what some guy on TV said.” indeed :-( Anonymous April 27th, 2006 11:46 am Not only is most of the internet fulled by Linux, but Linux itself is fulled by the souls of unborn children! Yummmm! All the Finnish are communist baby-eating hackers! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 11:48 am To anyone reading this: Please do not assume that all conservatives or republicans have as limited understandings of linux or computers. I for one am very conservative and administer linux systems. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 11:55 am All Europeans are naked commie bastards! All hail to the US - the French and British colony from Hell! Land of the free and the outcasts from Europe. Protectors of slavery and racism. Drop nukes on Ikea, the capital of Europe, and put an end to this communist mayhem! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 11:56 am You are a complete and total fool. I’m not even going to bother trying to argue with your crazy right wing propaganda. I can understand having differing views, but you seriously need to do some research before spouting off. This gave me a good laugh, by the way. You know what else, I hacked one of those MSNTV2’s (you know, for ignorent fools who have to use their TV to browse the internet) and I put LINUX on it! It runs great by the way, you should try it some day. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 11:56 am This site is running Linux! http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=shelleytherepublican.com So is your precious Department of Homeland security. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 11:57 am You give true conservatives a bad name, shame on you. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 11:57 am Is this a satirical site like TheOnion? I find it hard to believe that someone can say such stupid things as in this article… This must be the funniest (and most incorrect, dishonest) anti-Linux rant I’ve ever seen. You are catholics, aren’t you? Well, I’m one too and I was always teached that lying is wrong. You guys, are lying and making little baby Jesus cry. Ask yourself: What Would Jesus Do? Marcus Stade April 27th, 2006 12:04 pm Hahahahaha, best article ever! Whoever wrote this is either a total redneck dimwit (not at all inconcievable) or a really fun character. Either way, the article cracked me up. Thanks for a good laugh! Ps. If you are indeed a moron, please read som books. I hear it helps. Especially those concerning the topic of discussion. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 12:05 pm ThinkPads are made in America? Mikko Sandt April 27th, 2006 12:06 pm tony said… “The sorry little american farmers that think communists are evil with no exeption just because that’s what some guy on TV said.” “indeed :-(” Maybe not evil but incredibly stupid. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 12:11 pm computers were invented in the UK you fucking retard. tony April 27th, 2006 12:13 pm “Mikko Sandt said… tony said… “The sorry little american farmers that think communists are evil with no exeption just because that’s what some guy on TV said.” “indeed :-(” Maybe not evil but incredibly stupid.” Are they? Karl Marx has invented that, but nobody done that yet. Then how do you know that what they are? :-) Rickard Hill April 27th, 2006 12:16 pm If you still belive that Linux is some kind of cancer that is a threat to America, and/or the entire world. Then please allow me to laugh and give you a rope. You’d probably need it when you’r going to hang yourself. The rope you’r get from Microsoft, is probably as unstable as the operation system they are developing, and is not suitable of suicide activities. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 12:17 pm hahahaha, I cant believe how retarded you are. Do you even know what linux is? How it relates to that colourful screen you probably call a computer. You obviously know nothing of how the internet works, which is really quite relevant since you’re discussing linux/unix, which basically IS the internet. You are either a pretty good troll, or a computer illiterate retard, I cant be sure, but amusing article anyways. d3sp April 27th, 2006 12:18 pm I wonder what’s worse - the design of this blog or amount of people falling for this prank post Anonymous April 27th, 2006 12:18 pm “Tristan, you’re a fucking idiot. Please go jump off a building along with all your idiot friends.. Oh, I forgot, you don’t have any. Asshole.” —- “Americans are always like this: stupid-selfish-ignorants.” FOR FCKS SAKE!! THIS IS A JOKE! TRY TO GET IT! STOP TELLING HIM HE’S IGNORANT WHEN YOU YOURSELF ARE BEING A MORON! THIS IS A JOKE! THIS IS A JOKE! THIS IS A JOKE! THIS IS NOT AN ACTUAL ARTICLE! THIS IS WRITTEN WITH TONGUE IN CHEEK! THIS IS A JOKE! UNDERSTAND IT NOW PLEASE! Thanks. LIFO April 27th, 2006 12:18 pm Why usenother operating system? Why? Why, if GOD made Linux? Anonymous April 27th, 2006 12:19 pm Who invented the computer? Well in 1786 J. H. Mueller designed The Difference Engine in ENGLAND Later some one called Alan Turing during the wwII by BUILT “Colossus” This was 1943! It could crack Enigma code faster than a german with an Enigma! All the yanks had done was build a calculator aka a difference engine, that did not work till 1946 HA! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 12:23 pm When I read this I have to believe it is all a joke. Scarcasm at the most. People need to face the truth, a little research would help. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 12:24 pm DRINK EUTHANASIA SCUKO!!!!!!!! lijn April 27th, 2006 12:29 pm OMFG, this can’t be true… The sad part about it, of course, is that there are actually people who believe this stuff. When you want to fry an egg, you’ll have to learn how to operate the stove first, or you’ll cause a fire. When you want to drive a car, you’ll have to understand how it works first, or you’ll case an accident. When you want to rule the world, you’ll have to know about it first, or else.. errr, wait, they have started destroying it already. It’s a good thing Americans are this stupid. With friends like this, who needs Osama? mefyl April 27th, 2006 12:30 pm So much ignorance; Unix is older than windows/DOS. Your blog is hosted on a linux server. Please stop writing about things you don’t understand. John Holmen April 27th, 2006 12:31 pm Anonymous said… “Drop nukes on Ikea, the capital of Europe, and put an end to this communist mayhem!” Ikea is the capital of Sweden you morron. But we should be carefull of those ignorant european assholes, who doesn’t respect american copyright and steals like crazy. tony April 27th, 2006 12:32 pm “When I read this I have to believe it is all a joke. Scarcasm at the most. People need to face the truth, a little research would help.” People has linked me this blog from another country. They are still on the floor for the laugh. :-D Anonymous April 27th, 2006 12:34 pm Are you people serious? Tell me this is some sort of joke? The reasons stated against linux are insane! Also, you don’t want to be taken in by running an open and free piece of software (which people and companies can actually inspect), but you’ll blindly trust a corporation to serve your needs and not allow your data/activities to be breached by anyone (especially that “disney-dvd-ripping osama” you mention). Windows is the most unsafe OS you can run. I have tears in my eyes I’m laughing so hard. That was a good one. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 12:35 pm The Matrix was first created using Linux. There was a flaw.. It was too perfect, thus rejected. Then it was recreated using Windows. It was then accepted by the people. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 12:39 pm another kinf od integrism and a ridiculous post Anonymous April 27th, 2006 12:40 pm Heck even here in West Texas the average redneck is far more knowledgeable then some of the right wing given here. :[ Stickman April 27th, 2006 12:40 pm This is fantastic comedy! Keep up the good work. God Bless America! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 12:42 pm Ikea is the capital of Sweden you morron. I thought Sweden was the capital of Denmark, one of those ministates in Germany, the home-nation of all communists.. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 12:45 pm http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.blogger.com as are around 85% of all servers on the Internet… You really are stupid, and should start reading something else than the bible before writing dumbass comments like that. Stop polluting the internet, please (and the entire earth, if possible Pexisan April 27th, 2006 12:47 pm I can’t believe the ignorance in this article. It is only amusing at most. The fact that you didn’t know that this site is on linux server undermines everything you have just said. You’re making conclusions without rewieving history. Linus Torvals developed Linux in the late ’80s to early ’90s. Windows wasn’t back then the operating system which we now know. Microsoft is a great company, but it is not “american”, it is multinational. Microsoft doesn’t care what happens to America, it cares for profit. That’s what companies do, simply put. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 12:47 pm Linux gave me intestinal cramps and made my skin burn. tony April 27th, 2006 12:48 pm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform ::: Servers are commodity-class x86 PCs running customized versions of Linux. Indeed, the goal is to purchase CPU generations that offer the best performance per unit of power, not absolute performance. The biggest cost that Google faces is electric power consumption given the huge amount of computing power required. Estimates of the electric power consumption required for 100,000 servers range upwards of 20 Megawatts which could cost on the order of 1-2 million $US per month in electricity charges. ::: What would be the cost with additional software licenses? Anonymous April 27th, 2006 12:50 pm Idiot :-) Charles Babbage invented the first computer in 1780 something; he was British. If you’re only counting the first ‘electronic’ computer, then it still wasn’t invented by an American. It was invented in 1932 by Konrad Kuze, a contruction engineer for the German Airforce prior to WWII. Once again, fuck-wit America takes credit for something undeserved. Power Guido April 27th, 2006 12:52 pm “If you had bothered to check Google’s downloads pages you would see that they do not offer a single Linux download.” they don’t have to. most of their downloads exists to compensate for features that linux distributions have and windows don’t. case in point: google desktop. it’s major selling point is search on your own computer, something we linux users do with a command called “grep”, which always existed for linux. the other ones (picasa, google earth) runs under a compatibility layer called “wine” Wasyl April 27th, 2006 12:53 pm You must be some kind of human/mollusk hybrid to be this stupid. Or this post is a joke, in which case I’m quite amused. world citizen (europe) April 27th, 2006 12:57 pm hahahahaha! you joking right?! because if you’re not… god help you mate! Its kinda scary to read this from an American citizen. Poor, dumb soul… keep that attitude and you gonna hurt yoursef… grow up! hahahahahaha! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 12:57 pm The International Communist Linux revolution Front is destined to destroy the capitalist and fashist system of the USA. We wont stop to fight Micro$oft until every software and Music is free for Download on the world wide Web. first We will hack all your computers so that we can crash your complete Communication system. And than we will attack the USA with our armies, without a working Computer Communication network your soldiers have no chane against us. We have the Full support of Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Cuba and al-qaida united we will destroy the US 100% against 100.000 Terrorists and 40 Million regular soldiers you will have no chance. zid April 27th, 2006 12:58 pm Apache/1.3.34 Server at shelleytherepublican.com Port 80 …just me or is that a linux app? Anonymous April 27th, 2006 12:58 pm Great article Tristan, bang on with LINUX, it is a demonic creation. You might want to extend you research to another interweb interloper by the name of CISCO. It was invented by some pot smoking liberal hippy pinko scum in San Francisco a number of years ago. I’m sure they and LINUX are in cahoots. Just think, when all LINUX machines are connected to CISCO routers and switches the only righteous networking component will be the cabling and even that, I’ve heard comes from the sweat shops of communist China. We as God fearing American Christian Republicans must protect ourselves. I use a firewall made by a company called Checkpoint which was developed in Israel and blessed by almighty God himself (read the end user licence if you don’t believe me ). Unfortunately I think you may have discovered this conspiracy all too late, as they are already amongst us. Do you have a gun close by, I do. I think the time has come to kill for Jesus. I will pray for you. Amen Anonymous April 27th, 2006 12:59 pm shelly this is proof that women shouldn’t be messing with computes because you are to retard to understand how important it is to have an option. Windows is a crap operating system. Plain and simple. I bet you are one of the slack jawed hill billies in the 32% that like Bush too. I wouldn’t be surprised if you had a clan hat lurking in your closet as well. Oh well I hope the deaths of over 3000 american troops keeps you and yours warm and cozy at night. Mikko Sandt April 27th, 2006 12:59 pm Tony said… “Are they? Karl Marx has invented that, but nobody done that yet. Then how do you know that what they are? :-) ” Individual liberties are more important than collectivist “rights”. Communism doesn’t work in practice and is disgustingly anti-individual in theory. Communists/socialists/European leftists are just as idiotic collectivists as right-wing American Christians are. RCP April 27th, 2006 1:03 pm This has got to be, by far, the silliest thing that I have ever read! Thad Anderson April 27th, 2006 1:09 pm 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. You need to do a little more reading - on Linux and the “red states” you claim to represent. Red Hat, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, is one of the leading companies developing Linux-based products. Red Hat has become a both a symbol of, and a contributor to, the rapid economic growth the Triangle area has experienced in the last 10 years (the Triangle is the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area). Today, the FAA announced that it was switching to Red Hat’s enterprise Linux product, which will save the agency $15 million. Please explain to me what is “Marxist” about the FAA choosing a cost-efficient alternative to Windows. “US FAA Saves $15 Million by Deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux” Red Hat Corporate Website Red Hat Wikipedia Entry Anonymous April 27th, 2006 1:13 pm Tristan, Sorry I didn’t read all of the comment so I might be repeating some people. First, your opinnion is accepted, you don’t like windows. I personally now use linux, a distribution version called Gentoo. I’m quite happy with it, it works fine and I don’t have any unnecessary programs like “solitaire” and I can do all necessary things like word processing and a little gaming on my system. Yes, Linux is served free, because young students like me don’t have any extra money for windows, because it costs quite much money. Nor I don’t want to use it anymore. Second, I’m european, yes. And By reading “student” you might be noticing that quite young too. And no, I’m not a communist, anarchist, american hater or less than that a terrorist (altough my mom thinks otherwise) =) Finland is not a communist country, most of us Finns doesn’t support communism. And most Finns are chirstian. And no I’m not a believer, meaning I don’t believe in god. And it doesn’t hurt me a bit. Please, If you wan’t to discuss more deeper about Linux and/or other Unix related OSs. nadriel@gmail.com Sorry for my poor english, it comes because of me bein’ just 16 and It’s my third language to study. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 1:14 pm Is anyone sure this blogger is not a relative of a certain infamous city manager (and computer “expert”) in Oklahoma? Jinn April 27th, 2006 1:14 pm NSA uses linux… FBI uses linux…. you dont know crap.. Here is a wake up call.. All shell code of windows is secret.. so you dont know anything of what it really does or doesnt do.. linux shell code is open to everybody.. if it was suspicious it would be easily detected. decide which one you can trust. do you trust what you see or what you are told? Anonymous April 27th, 2006 1:15 pm zid said… Apache/1.3.34 Server at shelleytherepublican.com Port 80 …just me or is that a linux app? Dude it’s not a linux app - it’s a webserver and it runs on most platforms - *BSD, GNU/Linux, MacOS, HP-UX and even also Windows! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 1:19 pm GD, you have to be STUPID! first of all, one word: virus. Compare the amount of computer viruses between linux and windows. The ratio is 1 to 10000. One reason to say: which is more dangerous to the society and business? Anonymous April 27th, 2006 1:20 pm Interesting post. Can someone please enlighten me as to how politicians in America procure funds for their campaigning? Gunsmith_Dad April 27th, 2006 1:20 pm Tristan, I know this has to be in jest because, as you peeked over Osama’s shoulder at his laptop to see what OS he was running, you would have pulled out your American-made Colt 45 and splattered his brains all over his screen, obscuring the exact nature of the OS for anyone else who might happen by. Let’s all make sure that we are ready to take down that SOB no matter what OS he is using on his laptop. Robq April 27th, 2006 1:27 pm Er, your computer is made by the Chinese company who owns what used to be IBM’s PC division. As to America inventing the computer, the first electronic computer was either one of the Nazi German Z series, or the British Colossus computer at Bletchley Park, designed by Alan Turing (a homosexual!) And HTTP is a European invention. So before babbling on, please do try to have SOME idea of the facts. SCO’s claim would appear to be completely without merit, and they are now being counter-sued by IBM. And, of course, this blogging service runs on Linux, as does roughly half the internet. Better shift to MSN Spaces! Beefy April 27th, 2006 1:28 pm Look, your server configuration: Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.2 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.25 OpenSSL/0.9.7a If you notice, FrontPage extensions are installed. Linux servers can support “the most popular web development tools” out there. However, if someone was running linux they’d be smart enough to know that FrontPage is a Microsoft Piece of Junk, and would use a better tool in the firstplace. Thank you for showing anyone who is in any way computer savy that you know nothing about linux or the use of operating systems and software compatibility. FireScourger April 27th, 2006 1:28 pm Shelley i will pray for u to get sain again. I´m Finnish WE FOUGHT the communists all alone against US, Great Britian and Sovjet Union on the side of German Third rich(obviusly nothing i stand for, but i don´t blame my ancestors), We still got our Freedom. FInland is not a Communistic country, Thx to Germany and my ancestors. But i´m kian thankfull to Great Britian for trying to force Sovjet Union to make peace insted with us. WE ARE NOT COMMUNISTS. Maybe i´m not a great beliver in God. But i know this is not satanistic. I belive in the good of people on this planet (except Bill Gates). I still got a chance to face God if i´m not alredy doing it, Shelley i hope (if god excists) he will revive ur brain and soal one day. com4 April 27th, 2006 1:28 pm Tristan, thank you for article. My son installed Linux on his computer. He started wearing all black and listening to repetitive electronic music he calls “Techno”. Yesterday he even colored his hair BLUE!! Now that I know the source of the problem, we can cure him of this “cancer”. Thank you once again. God Bless Anonymous April 27th, 2006 1:28 pm You utter fucking retard… Anonymous April 27th, 2006 1:35 pm Christ. You seriously suck. I am proud I didnt vote the same as you, and I am now embarassed I live in the same country as you. Computers are about as un-American as they come. Stop throwing around information you know nothing about. Steve Balmer is interested in Microsoft stock, of course he will badmouth linux. Did you know there are different versions of linux? Is BSD evil as well? You have a better chance at Microsoft watching you than Linux. I could go on, but I dont want to dignify your comments. I am sickened by you. Bush should be embarassed too. Beefy April 27th, 2006 1:37 pm Also, let me make a note about the virus and firewall crap you spouted about linux. Viruses written for linux are almost non-existant. Even if your computer does get a virus and you’re running linux because of its superior user rights management it usually won’t efffect more than one application on your computer. Firewalls? Linux has plenty of firewalls. I have a linux box configured AS my firewall at home. Also, as previously mentioned, Linux is based off of Unix. The original Unix was written as a sample operating system for college students in an OS programming class in America. Oh, College! Something Microsoft could use. FireScourger April 27th, 2006 1:38 pm com4 wasn´t u a bit like that in his age? listening to rock’n'roll? vanilla April 27th, 2006 1:39 pm Baby! Linux - rulez!!! And u’re stupid idiot! Preved krosavchegi! LOR rulez! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 1:40 pm Hi great stuff! This comment was written by sys… Operating System: FreeBSD (SD stands for Satanic Daemon.. :) ) Dressed totaly in black living in Germany, home of Merkel Master of hundreds of servers, all running BSD and linux with Apache in short terms: —> the home of evil sys Anonymous April 27th, 2006 1:45 pm Your great goverment develops Code for Linux: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ Greetings from Germany, Europe This comment is written on a Linux Box L'Akratique April 27th, 2006 1:46 pm Le site le plus hilarant que j’ai eu l’occasion de voir depuis belle lurette. Merci! FireScourger April 27th, 2006 1:46 pm ok, the truth is that u cant run linux on Windows. BUT! Webisites is written in HTML that u just need a Web-browser to provide. So u can run Linux Websites on WIndows, FreeBSD and Linux or whatever OS that have a web-browser. but u can run Windows on Linux with a Emulator like N64 on a PC. FireScourger April 27th, 2006 2:00 pm Don´t blame ‘em they´r just shown the wrong path in this blogg. DON`T TALK ABOUT ENYTHING U DON´T KNOW ABOUT! Shelley April 27th, 2006 2:05 pm Don’t post here anymore, please! You are crashing my WINDOWS HOSTED web site!!! Byron Gibson April 27th, 2006 2:06 pm Shelley and Tristan, there are many inaccuracies, incorrect assumptions, and misunderstandings in your post. As an American software engineer and amateur philosopher, please allow me to help you understand a little better. First, computers weren’t invented just by Americans. In a very small nutshell, and at the risk of introducing inaccuracies due to gross simplification: The foundations of Computer Science (and Capitalism and America’s entire legal system for that matter) were created by Europeans. John von Nueman and Alan Turing come immediately to mind, among many others. The transistor was co-invented by Americans and Europeans (Andy Grove, the Hungarian immigrant and co-founder and previous CEO of Intel). The scientific breakthroughs that made the silicon microchip possible were achieved in the late 80’s and early to mid 90’s by European scientists, both in Europe and those who immigrated to America, who discovered and developed Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Physics. The modern computer and its industry are standing on the shoulders of giants, many (perhaps most) of whom are European. If you truly care about the truth as you claim, then credit where credit is due, right? As for Linux, it has nothing to do communism, socialism, or liberalism. It was the school project of a Finnish grad student. He simply wanted to recreate Unix, the most secure, stable, and powerful general purpose operating system yet invented (in America by the way, and Windows can’t hold a candle to it) for inexpensive, 32-bit PCs (Unix previously required expensive 64bit workstations). He continued developing Linux as a hobby, and made it freely available over the Internet to anyone else who wanted to join, which many did as a response to Microsoft’s illegal monopoly and quashing of all other choices. You say, “Osama uses Linux because he knows designed to counterfit DVDs, curcumventing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and defraud companies like Disney.” No, Osama uses Linux because the source code is available so he can see exactly what is in his operating system. Windows is known to have one or more ‘backdoors’ for the National Security Agency, allowing them to spy on anyone who uses Windows. This was only discovered by intrepid and curious hackers (good hackers, eg curious kids who start world-beating companies in their garages), and was very difficult since Microsoft keeps the Windows source code hidden. FYI, computer programs like Windows are written in human-readable Source code by people, and then translated, or ‘compiled’, into machine readable binary code or byte code by a software program called a ‘compiler’. In binary form, it is nearly impossible for humans to read the code, hence secrets like the NSA backdoor are hidden in binary form, but not in Source form. Linux, and the entire GNU foundation of which it is a part, operate on ideals that are more American than anything - Freedom. Free access to software’s Source code, which equates to Freedom of Information - the ability to know everything about software you’re using, rather than having it hidden from you in obsfucated binary code. Having your opinions is fine, that’s what America is about, but please educate yourself on Linux and software before writing such a criticism of such truly wonderful product and the phenonema that created it. For a legal perspective on Linux, try http://groklaw.com/. Thanks, Byron Silverdisc April 27th, 2006 2:07 pm Fucking troll….you are posting on a linux server…LINUX LET YOU POST THAT SHIT WITHOUT SENSE, please, pray for the blessed penguin, because if the server was on micro$oft software, make sure that it will be down with no effort…stupid post, i’ve seen fanatics of linux, with more or less reason, but….windows fanatic? why? why the hell you like that piece of security shit, that piece of SUPER-GREAT-WHOLE-ALL-IN-ONE spyware called “XP”…thats incredible to met people like you….that someone or something bless your way to the REAL truth… Anonymous April 27th, 2006 2:11 pm You people cannot be this ignorant, you are all f’ing morons!!! You apparently know nothing of Linux or UNIX. Why not open your f’ing minds you god damn retards. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 2:12 pm pwahaha!! estie d’épaisse ! :D FireScourger April 27th, 2006 2:13 pm Try to use it under supervising from some1 who knows Linux and see that Linux is better and Windows is dying and was alredy old when it was realesed with BIOS from 1980´s. Windows/Microsoft is just a fat beast that is surviving on fat reserves(a.k.a Money and is ready to die soon. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 2:26 pm Please everyone - keep calm. It seems like Shelley is taking the piss out of Tristan. I have never seen something so laughable in my life! FireScourger April 27th, 2006 2:27 pm me neither Anonymous April 27th, 2006 2:34 pm Shelley said… Don’t post here anymore, please! You are crashing my WINDOWS HOSTED web site!!! Don´t worry, it won´t crash. It´s running on Linux you know! :) God April 27th, 2006 2:35 pm You people are seriously at the bottom of the gene pool. You are the people Darwin should eliminate but instead you blog, just die. Honestly, you have had your 15 minutes (and been made to look like asses) now it’s time to go kill yourself or enlighten yourself. It’s your choice, I would hope you choose the former as you people are the ones who breed ingnorance and intolerance into the world. It’s time to know your subject or shut the fuck up. I would seriously reconsider my viewpoint on life if I were you. Remember, I am watching and you shall be judge. Cock. WiLLiE April 27th, 2006 2:36 pm I’m still laughing.. hahaha Well, checking out the rest of the site, this is indeed a practical joke. Noone, even in the USA can be this stupid. Oh, and greetings from sweden here too. Paul from Old Europe April 27th, 2006 2:39 pm Do you really believe in all this B*s*t on your website? Please tell us that if it is a joke - otherwise go home and do fight your own war in your own country. FireScourger April 27th, 2006 2:39 pm i hope willie is right. we cant be sure with USA around Anonymous April 27th, 2006 2:40 pm How old are you, Tristan? Eight? 1. Open your eyes. Open your mind. Open your IBM Computer, and you’ll find a lot of chips from Taiwan, Singapore, and so on. 2. Search the bible. Especially paragraph 7. 3. Would you say America has full control on every european and asian computer running Windows? How much do you know about computers? Do you know what open source is? 4. Linux is not a computer program - it’s an operating system, consisting of thousands of computer programs. Linus Thorvalds was an Finish Student, and went to Santa Clara (Cal./ US) in the year 2000 and changed to Portland/ Oregon 2004. 5. The ‘leading computer expert’ Ballmer might be a little bit biased, since he’s a leading manager at Microsoft. 6. Linux isn’t related to maristic ideology. Do you have a prove, beside the funny cuba-penguin? 7. Linux isn’t a commercial product, but the famous american leading database oracle is supporting it. IBM supports it. HP supports it. The list is long. 8. Some Americans generate profit with Microsoft, and for the rest this are costs. Since Linux is free, the American buisiness could spend a lot of money somewhere else. In the US or outside - in software, brains or in hardware. 9. Computers are everywhere, but these aren’t just desktop computers. So not every computer is running Windows. The operating system doesn’t know whether it is serving a medical equipement or a battleship. Nobody is free of errors, but with GNU-linux, you may not only test your programs and buy a certificate, you can analyse the source-code, which is written in C, an american computer language known by a big number of programmers, down to the bare metal. 10. Imagine a stealth-bomber crashes because his software was written by an known american developper. Where is the advantage? Why should an european developer (I know why you’re talking about them as hacker) be interested in stelth-bombers crashing? How should he do that? 11. Osama - well. You know how much money is controlled by Osama bin Laden? Shall I stop breathing, because Osama uses oxygene too? Perhaps he is using Linux for the same reasons as I: More mature and stable, more fun to use and more control for the end-user (not for some european/ asian marxist hacker). 12. Next time you tell us how Al Queda is saving money you might read your MS-Ads first, which claim a smaller Total-cost-of-ownwership for their product. 13. Linux isn’t developped by a single person, and without the help of a big american community, it wouldn’t be what it is today. 14. Closing your eyes will not keep you in a role of computer-leadership. Open your eyes. Open your mind. And don’t fear your friends in europe, asia and elsewhere, just because we sometimes don’t share your opinions. Don’t you sometimes disagree with your friends, your father, your mother? 15. Thank you for including me into your prayers. That’s a noble gesture, which I cannot refuse. Best whishes from Berlin, Germany, the city where Americans fighted successfully for freedom and democracy. Stefan. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 2:48 pm hahaha, fantastic troll. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 2:52 pm Firstly.. you’re a complete jackass. Now that we’re beyond that, let me explain some things (As an american UNIX professional who actually KNOWS something about computers). Your IBM computer is built by an american company that BUYS ASIAN MADE COMPONENTS EXCLUSIVELY. Maybe I should also mention that IBM is the biggest funder in the world for open source development, which you call evil. Oh.. also.. Microsoft? Their best performing software (like AD, Win3k server, etc.) IS ALL BASED ON OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGY - just like linux! If you need the specific technologies they use a lot of, try kerberos, openssl, openldap, mozilla, the smb/cifs protocol for starters. That’s just a few off the top of my head. So.. the lovely american companies you tout so highly are all dedicated AT THE CORE to these things you hate. So, looks like it’s time to throw out your laptop and change operating systems so jesus will still love you. Now.. what os can you go to? Hmm.. well.. there’s not one on the planet that doesn’t have some footing in open source technology, so I guess you’re screwed. Time to switch back to pen, paper and calculat… oh, wait.. calculators have japanese boards in them! ACK! Guess you’ll just have to shoot yourself in the head or become Amish. In other news… Maybe you also missed the details like the fact that one of the closest friend to the Bush family is the Bin Laden family. Republicans are always too stupid to look at the big picture, so your remarks aren’t surprising. I’m an American and so ashamed of idiots like you that are quick to judge and slow to do even an inch of homework. Easier to let your fucking church make up your small mind for you, eh, asshole? Anonymous April 27th, 2006 2:53 pm By the way, the laptop you are using, an IBM one, made in USA is in fact a Chinese one, made by communists since IBM sold its PC business to Lenovo back in April 2005. Check http://www.pc.ibm.com/ Anonymous April 27th, 2006 2:55 pm This can’t be for real. It isn’t possible for someone to actually be this stupid. is it? Seriously was this supposed to be submitted on 4/1/06 and someone just forgot to hit the send button until today? To think that anyone can even have a thought process this convoluted and not be institutionalized is beyond belief. Then again it is said that truth is stranger than fiction and I guess this is a good example. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 2:58 pm this article is made even more sad because all ameriKKKans are like this FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING AMERIKKKAN BUSH LOVERS EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU FUCKERS SHOULD DIE!!! sys April 27th, 2006 3:03 pm perfect trolling. Some people seem to miss a trollindicator…. Apache/1.3.34 Server at shelleytherepublican.com Port 80 yeah….. sys Anonymous April 27th, 2006 3:05 pm damn it shelly, now terrorists have a legitimate reason to bomb us… Anonymous April 27th, 2006 3:09 pm Stupid americans, that’s what you are Anonymous April 27th, 2006 3:09 pm You are either a joke or a moron. Aside from the other errors that folks pointed out, your fave organization the BSA is the fist of Microsoft itself, screwing every company - American included - that it can. If you can actually read, try comprehending this article from a few years ago: Overseas Invasion Like Coke, Nike, and the tobacco industry before it, Microsoft now has to hook new consumers abroad. But the company has discovered a way to bully foreign companies into buying Microsoft — and only Microsoft. By Rachel Burstein In 1995 Antel, the national telephone company of Uruguay, was caught pirating $100,000 worth of unlicensed software programs from Microsoft, Novell, and Symantec. Antel was nabbed by the Business Software Alliance, a trade association that partly acts as a global bounty hunter for the software industry. The BSA’s lawyers in Uruguay quickly filed suit. But instead of waiting for a ruling on the case, the BSA abruptly dropped the suit in the fall of 1997. The BSA receives funding from most of the top software companies but appears to be most heavily funded by Microsoft. And, according to Antel’s information technology manager, Ricardo Tascenho, the company settled the matter by signing a “special agreement” with Microsoft to replace all of its software with Microsoft products. The BSA’s lawyer in Uruguay, Eduardo DeFreitas, supports Tascenho’s story: “Microsoft told me to stop working on the case because they would write an agreement with Antel.” DeFreitas says Microsoft’s Uruguay manager, Tomas Blatt, instructed him to drop the suit so that Microsoft could “work out a deal for the future.” Blatt refused to answer questions about the settlement, claiming, “I don’t have any information about the Antel case…. You should call BSA in Uruguay—Eduardo DeFreitas.” Antel’s situation suggests that when the BSA cracks down on piracy overseas, it’s Bill Gates who turns out to be the pirate. Representatives from rival firms complain that Microsoft is abusing its power within the BSA to speed its global dominance. Microsoft denies that the BSA acts solely on its behalf. “I am not aware of any instance where that has happened,” says Microsoft attorney Brad Smith. And the BSA dismisses the charges; spokeswoman Diane Smiroldo calls them “hard to believe.” But officials at Novell and Lotus confirm that by January, both companies will have stopped actively participating in the BSA’s programs in Asia and Latin America. Novell says these allegations played a part in its decision; Lotus refuses to comment. Such concerns are also among the reasons Netscape is reluctant to join the BSA, says Netscape attorney Peter Harter. The accusations aren’t just limited to Uruguay: Felipe Yungman, Novell’s manager of security for Argentina, says he and another staffer at Novell discovered, while pursuing their own investigation for the company, that the BSA was setting up sweetheart deals for Microsoft. “Companies or government offices had to, as a condition [that the BSA] forgive them of piracy, replace Novell products with Microsoft products,” he says. Yungman would not divulge the names of the companies he believes were bullied by Microsoft, saying that he is trying to convince them to come forward. “Most of the companies don’t want to get involved,” he explains. “They think they need Microsoft. You cannot oblige them to testify.” Mario Tucci, Novell’s country manager for Latin America, supports Yungman’s allegations. “If you call BSA, you will reach Microsoft,” he says. “They shield Microsoft’s actions with the BSA name. It’s bad for us and [for] the software industry.” In 1996, when the BSA sued the Australian shipping company Toll Holdings for piracy, BSA lawyer Charles Gonsalves, of the Sydney-based firm of Mallesons Stephen Jaques, oversaw the case. “I generally handle cases for both Microsoft and the BSA,” Gonsalves told Mother Jones. But while the suit alleged that Toll illegally used copies of programs made by Lotus, Novell, Symantec, and Microsoft, Martin Dunne, Toll’s chief information technology officer, says the company settled by paying fines to only Symantec and Microsoft. And, Dunne says, other than keeping Symantec’s anti-virus software, the company has made a significant change: Toll only buys Microsoft now. According to a Novell official, Toll “offered to legalize on all Microsoft products if [the BSA] dropped the suit.” Both the BSA and Toll deny any impropriety. While a written agreement between Toll and Gonsalves does exist, neither party would reveal the terms of the settlement. When Gonsalves was asked if Microsoft ever paid for his handling of BSA cases, he chuckled and said, “That’s a confidential matter.” In Slovenia, where 96 percent of all software is pirated, the head of the BSA office, Aaron Marko, is also Microsoft’s country manager. Marko says that because enforcement is difficult in the country’s court system, he offers discounted Microsoft software to companies caught pirating by the BSA. Does Marko see this as a conflict of interest, since he also supposedly represents other software firms? “BSA is trying to find the pirate. Then it is a question of marketing and product awareness to see who will get the legal market share,” he says. When asked which BSA members have local subsidiaries that do local marketing, Marko says only Microsoft and Oracle, which is not a direct Microsoft competitor. These allegations “raise questions as to whether the BSA serves the interest of its members or whether it serves its dominant member,” says James Love, director of Ralph Nader’s Consumer Project on Technology. And for the foreign companies, he says, “these seem to be stories of blackmail.” The BSA employs a team of more than 100 lawyers and investigators to find cases of software piracy—a crime it says costs the industry $11 billion a year. The BSA says it catches “thousands of cases a year,” many through its 55 piracy hotlines, the most famous of which urges employees to “Nail Your Boss” by calling. While the BSA won’t release its funding details, it does say that money comes from membership dues, which are based on each company’s software revenues. This is one way in which Microsoft dominates the BSA: Microsoft’s annual revenues, for example, are eight times that of Novell, its largest rival. In the future, Novell and Lotus say they will use their own in-house resources for anti-piracy efforts in Asia and Latin America. But other BSA members, while concerned about Microsoft’s role in the organization, aren’t quite willing to go their own way. Greg Wrenn, senior corporate counsel for Adobe, says his company has stayed with the BSA despite having had some uneasy experiences with Microsoft. For example, Wrenn says, the Microsoft attorneys who worked for the BSA refrained from going after big Microsoft clients caught pirating Adobe products—until Adobe prodded them. Wrenn says Adobe will stay in the BSA, pressuring the organization to play fair. But he acknowledges Microsoft’s upper hand. “If an attorney does Microsoft work and BSA work and never hears from another company besides Microsoft, he’s going to do the work for the guy who’s in his office every week,” Wrenn says. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 3:10 pm is it any wonder americans are the joke of the world!?ignorant uncultured assholes! you know what gets me how america was all ‘oh AMERICA’S war on terrorism’ after 9/11 yet up until then they didn’t give a shit about the terrorism suffered by the rest of the world…but then what do we matter we r all queer liberal satanists right tristan? Anonymous April 27th, 2006 3:10 pm You have to stop being so ignorant and so stupid. stubborn people like you Tristan and all those who agree are just insane. I won’t give you any technical detail to prove that linux is far far better than windows for professional work becuase 1) you probably couldn’t understand 2) there are many good arguments in the comments above You’re just a F*** american who thinks that americans are the world leaders… There are really great people in america, but people like you are just a shame for the entire world. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 3:11 pm Osama uses linux? HAHAHAHAHAHA If you can´t understand that knowledge doesn´t have price, that Linux is open to anyone without secrets, no Big Brother spying your machine… well you have a very small vision of the world. It will be great if all the controls for nuclear weapons and chemical weapons works under Windows… 50% will crash in the first attemp of working. HAHAHAHA. jnichols April 27th, 2006 3:13 pm Simply put, you are a moron, Tristan. Good luck living in your fantasy land. Lee April 27th, 2006 3:13 pm Hi, I couldn’t care less about the article, I just wondered why the page was so wide :P Anonymous April 27th, 2006 3:26 pm Oh dear sweet lord I hope this article is a joke… What’s worrying is that, even though it seems to me that it probably is, a number of the comments have come from people who take it seriously. I never would’ve believed such blind obedience to the corporations of the U$* existed outside of the fevered minds of the Bush administration. *One nation under the dollar Anonymous April 27th, 2006 3:26 pm Heh… It’s amazing how humor impaired the net is. By the by… The British didn’t invent computers, the french did. Jacquard’s loom (search Google to get spelling correct, search Wikipedia) built in 1801, based on an *earlier* french device from 1728. Punched cards were a standard computer input well into the 1900s. Not like floppy disks that only lasted a decade or so. Of course, clocks are computers too. You may feel that some sun clocks and some water clocks are too passive to property be called computers. But the mechanical clocks developed by 100bc in Greece, Rome, and later, China, are fairly clearly early computers. hardenstuhl April 27th, 2006 3:30 pm If Osama uses Linux - please ask him if he got flash to work? It is a real pain in the ass. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 3:31 pm genuine quality troll-postings ought to be like this! I’ll nominate your article for the “most hilarious crap posting of 2006″ award. You’d deserve it, honestly. Alfredo Morelli April 27th, 2006 3:33 pm So much nonsense in just a few words… I realy hope not all US citizens are this dumb… Remember that computers were not a criation of god!! You may also believe that… This why you have an high school drop out for a president… Get real! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 3:34 pm Oh dear, I’m affraid… Of your stupidity. Or, it just a jokes, so well done. But I see some people who believe you. You should explain that what you say is wrong. I won’t write any longer, but thank you for this funny shit that make me laugh. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 3:35 pm Tristan you are the man!!! Keep it up and you might win an award for beeing stupid! :) Anonymous April 27th, 2006 3:37 pm People like you ignorant fools are the reason why the United States are no longer looked up to in the rest of the free world. You are a disgrace to evolution and civilization. It’s too bad the Darwin Awards are only awarded posthumously, because I’ve never seen a better example of someone deserving an award for stupidity. Lee April 27th, 2006 3:40 pm Hmm now I see the stupidly wide comment, it was hiding before :) KC April 27th, 2006 3:40 pm This is really sad, Operating System diversity (Having Unix, Linux, BSD, OS X, Windows) is important for NATIONAL SECURITY. If everything ran on the same OS and a hacker found an exploit to shut down a person’s computer, EVERYONES computer would be in danger. Blogger owned by Google, Google uses Linux. The backbone of the Internet is Linux. Nick Baronian April 27th, 2006 3:40 pm Tristan - you are one blinded dumbass. You are welcome to keep dreaming in your narrow minded little make believe world but most intelligent people can smell this big pile of poo a mile away. I don’t think you had a single fact right in your post. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 3:46 pm I think you are not normal.. USA today is like the Nazi Germany, if some people really think and act in the way you blog here. Remember Hitler won the democratic elections just like your president. They tried to wipe out jews, like you the muslims. Both of you tried to take control over the oil resources of other nations. And finally just to remember you about the history, the Nazi Germany failed just like the USA is going to fall into the dump of forgotten conquerors. Cheers mate! See you in hell.. but wait, I belive in love, the messeage what Jesus sent us.. hmmm guess we wont meet, cos I go to heaven! I’m so much sorry for you, I will pray for your salvation, hopefully one day you understand what Jesus had to say. And a real Christian doesnt send anybody to rot in hell like you do! PS: Today Chine bought the rights to expolre Nigerian oil fields.. :) Zachary A. Kroll April 27th, 2006 3:47 pm Not only are you a racist. You are also an idiot, who obviously knows nothing about computing. Stick to windows! It was created for people like you. This line is my favorite, “And guess what software Osama Bin Laden uses on his laptop?” I mean, what are you thinking? Stephen April 27th, 2006 3:49 pm Osama uses linux? How would you know that? Supproting him are you? It’s sad that people believe trash like this and buy into it. You people truly hate what America stands for and don’teven know it. Our open market scares you because you do not understand it. Yet it makes this country great. Well, go support the worst world leader since Hitler if you must. I will not support our terrorist actions in the middle east. God will bless America when this is over in Iraq but he will condemn Bush to the fires of Hell. And for the love of all that is good in this world if you are going to write about technology at least have some idea about what you are talking about. You Sir, clearly do not. P.S. Please leave the vulgarity at home. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 3:51 pm GNU Public License Give it a read, and form an opinion only AFTER you read the whole of it. If you think their is no money in Linux, you are dead wrong. If you think their is no economic basis for Linux you are again dead wrong. If Windows is superior, then why would someone in their right mind choose to use Linux? How could someone even think to not use something that is so vastly superior? When plainly, for a somewhat reasonable price (windows xp home edition costs $268 at the time of this post) you can have something that should in all cercumstances be the better choice? When Windows actually performs like Linux, you will see people who are using Linux switch to Window. The ONLY reason that people who are using computers today are using such a widely used platform such as Windows is because of Games and Portability. Games only run on certain OS’s. Linux only plays games when and if you actually learn how to use computer hardware and learn how to write in a computer programming language or computer scripting language. I really think the author this article is just frustrated on how darn difficult to use Linux is. And that given that most people in the United States are not computer programmers, it would make perfect sense for many of them to choose to use a pre-designed, pre-configured OS such as Windows. When it’s so simple and easy. The army says K.I.S.S.! Which means Keep It Simple Stupid. Windows is very simple any stupid person should be able to use it. Actually the only way a ‘Hacker’ gets to your computer software and OS is if you allow them to. If we are putting software and OS’s into military hardware that is easily hacked, that’s saying that our men (and women) in the military are idiots and don’t know how to do an American thing better than the enemy. I don’t think you should call our military idiotic. We have the best and the brightest! We made computers (according to you) and we should know how to darn well use them! Linux or Windows, Apple or Merlin, Sun or Novell! You claim that the blue states are vacuous in your article, because they choose to use Linux instead of Windows. Maybe it’s an educated choice rather than a financial one? If you look at THIS website, it plainly shows that a majority of people in the blue states have a higher IQ (in 2004). This isn’t rocket science, this isn’t particle physics. It’s math on a computer, it’s that simple. So if you really want to know how Linux is ruining our nation, please provide clear, concise statements regarding how and why it is inferior to Windows. Instead of rhetorical bullS**t about how American it is compaired to Linux. In the famous words of someone else; “SHOW ME THE MONEY!” Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:09 pm Linux eats babies. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:12 pm Windows -> for Dumbo Users Linux -> for Knowing Users :D :D :D :D This is reality This is article, yellows!(envy, grude, jaundice, ….)Valamelyik jó, osszátok be! :) Credible Witness April 27th, 2006 4:15 pm yeah, I can confirm that. I saw a rabid pack of Linux users kick a puppy, slap an ice cream cone out of this kid’s hands and then not get up for an old lady on the bus. Shameful! Andrew April 27th, 2006 4:17 pm Well, Tristan, I agree with you that God can lead anyone to repentance, but your article is totally wrong. Linux is not evil, it is not a sin to use it. I use it every single day. In fact, for the kind of work I do (systems programming) I find it a valuable resource for testing my code and it’s portability. As far as Osama Bin Laden and Linux, well, let me give you an example. What do we use to power our computers? That’s right, electricity. What does Osama use to power his computers? You guessed it, electricity. Just because someone uses and object or a resource doesn’t make that object or resource wrong or evil. On the contrary, computers and the operating systems they use are amoral, i.e. they don’t have any morality. It’s the people who use them and how they use them that decides if that use is correct (moral) or incorrect (immoral) Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:17 pm Man. You guys suck. Typical American bullshit paranoia. The only reason Linux exists is because Windows sucks. Windows sucks very bad. Linux is a program to bring down America? In that case Windows is a program to give America a divine position to decide for things that are none of it’s business. It is to give America the power to bring down every other nation! Of course, I don’t personally think any of this bullshit. But if you think that Linux has such an influence, don’t be one-sided, think of Windows as critically. Dr. M Johnson April 27th, 2006 4:18 pm This site has to be a wind-up right? Sorry to dissapoint you Shelley, but the first conceptualised computer was a British invention! **>> KAPTAIN KANGAROO <<** April 27th, 2006 4:20 pm **>> KAPTAIN KANGAROO Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:25 pm Your oppinion is no longer valid. Please cut the powercord on your computer. And get a new brain. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:26 pm This looks like an assay written by a brain-washed 10 y old… I really feel sorry for you Tristan. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:27 pm Hahaha… Great! Hilarious!! What do you think about McDonald’s and their ‘French Fries’? Food from hell, isn’t it? Hahahahahaha… Linux user April 27th, 2006 4:27 pm HAHAHA…. Afraid, are you? I hate you, yankees. You are just a pack of lawbreakers and escaped prisoners, who were forced to sail away (and pretty fast) from the Europe back in those days otherwise you would die in jail here for your crimes. Well, you have larger army than the rest of the world and what?! We’re going to destroy your nation from inside, by Linux! Looking forward that day, its coming soon, muhehehehehehe :D Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:28 pm WOW I thought that I had met the stupidist person alive already but NO! You think that anything that is not american is communist/nazi/evil. I feel that I am going to cry this is such idoitic idea. If you made it past the 1st grade that would shock me. I cannot think of anything to say about this that has not already been said besides that you should be hit upside the head by a Chinese Commie with a SONY computer running LINUX, and once you are knocked out you should be dragged into North Korea, Russia where ever you think is the worst place on earth with nothing and see what happens. It would make a great reality show “The Freaking Idiot Surviver.” Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:28 pm You are wrong Osama uses Windows Xp Professional what he got from his previouse employer the government of the united states of america, his boss was George Bush the elder :) Guess you find his phone number still in the CIA phone book or even in the list of the last calls in Mr. Bushs mobile. Wake up! The dark middle ages are over! Republican HoodRat April 27th, 2006 4:28 pm Ya’ll gots to stop talkin dis noiz about Win-to-the-dee-oh-dubble dubs mutha fuckaz! Linux is some broke as shit fo sheezy! Man, just the otha day, my ass was flossin and flyin that inter-bitch, while torchin a phat ass spliff and it was off the chain! Tristan is a mad ass cracker name and this Shelly bitch needs to get her jungle feva on fo sho, but Windizzle is tight and right. HOLLA! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:28 pm “Like most things that are worth owning, Computers are an American invention.” not sure ;) ~$ sudo apt-get install Al-Quaida Password: Lecture des listes de paquets… Fait Construction de l’arbre des dépendances… Fait E: Impossible de trouver le paquet Al-Quaida ZUT ! You give me ideas ^^, It can be fun for us (French) to take the white house ! So I stop here and I thank you, your blog is very very funny ;) Bonnes continuations :) Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:28 pm You are quite possibly the most ignorant person on this earth Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:32 pm Surely this blog is fake? can someone be so deluded? Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:34 pm Go give more fellatio to your king you deluded hag. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:34 pm And if Linux is so communistic, why do the NSA, FAA, and a whole bunch of Gov’t Agencies use it? Yes there are AV products for Linux, but only one know virus so why worry? M$ is the most Socialistic company of the century in my book. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:37 pm http://www.alphatradefn.com/story/2006-04-26/BIZ/200604260800BIZWIRE_USPR_____BW5201.html Tristan, Redhad is a big American company - bad, evil people I guess? Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:41 pm FYI, most of the brightest minds in the USA where “imported” from Europe after the second World War. The Americans aren’t the most intellectual nation in the world, you know. You can thank your lucky stars that Einstein was a Jew. **>> KAPTAIN KANGAROO <<** April 27th, 2006 4:43 pm Only thing FRENCH about u is that you give us FRENCH FRY to go with MEGA-POOP-DEATH! KAPTAIN KANGAROO want to give you some FRENCH dressing to go with you FRENCH fry. SHELLY REPUBLITARD MAkes stupid thoughts about things not full understood. LINUX makers you will die by the BUTT BUBBLE! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:47 pm Yes.. this is a great example of how some persons in the USA are so, but so…. dumb, ignorant, racists and stupid.. All the republican are like you ? You think you are helping your party postiing this kind of stupid things ? Oh, i know, you are really a democrat and want to make look the republicans as dumbs, racists, ignorants, rednecks… Yea!!! good work !! you made it !!. GI Joe Recruiting April 27th, 2006 4:56 pm So uh….what’s the deal with Sargeant Slaughter? That asshole’s been a Sargeant for what, like 20 years?? Jeebus Christ! You’d think he’d have to have been promoted by accident by now! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 4:59 pm Let me guess your mother smoked crack when she was pregnat with you. Then you ate paint chips when you were young along with being dropped on your head many times. You smoked weed as a teenager. Now you do Meth. You give americans a bad name. I don’t care about you giving Rebublicans a bad name though I’m a DEMOCRAT. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 5:06 pm This is just stupid! I think that you need to get your head out of your a@# before commenting on topics you obviously know nothing about. luxurien April 27th, 2006 5:10 pm xD Anonymous April 27th, 2006 5:21 pm Anonymous said… “This website couldn’t be hosted on Linux. I use The Internet for my web browser, and widnows for my computer. You can’t use linux on windows, so If it was hosted on linux it won’t have worked on my comnputer. So there!” That’s like saying: “I drive a car! I use various main roads to get to town. You can’t put a road on top of a car! So obviously IF I was driving on actual highways, I would never get to town. So there!” DAMN, you guys are HILARIOUS! :) Please-please-please don’t learn anything about how computers and the Internet REALLY work… if you do, we would be deprived of some really great comedy. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 5:22 pm Hey Shelley, Think about that: Internet has been around for decades. The first version of windows able to connect to a network was 3.11, from the early 90’s. so… what where intenet servers using? UNIX. What is GNU/Linux? An open source UNIX implementation. By the way, your hosting is using Apache Web server (your’s and more than 45% of internet web servers, making apache the most used web server). And apache is another example of Open Source software. Maybe Open Source and Linux aren’t that bad.Even the NSA makes use of them (they help to develop a flavour of linux called SE-Linux). Even IBM makes use of linux. Oh yes! Microsoft’s Hotmail webmail service has been hosted in linux for years. Last but not least… guess who once worked for the USA to fight against the URSS? Your beloved Bin-Laden. (And cut that crap about him using Linux. If his car uses gas are you going to stop using gas in yours because of it? Anonymous April 27th, 2006 5:32 pm YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING!! This is the most closed minded feeble attempt at propaganda i’v seen in a long time. Are you sure you arent in Mr. Gates back pocket or perhaps you are one of those software designers charging too much for a product that perhaps YOU have stolen the kernel from. In my opinion free source code is good for the industry because it stops dumbasses like you from strategically manipulating whats available. Or maybe perhaps you are just too stupid to understand linux and therefore choose to remain what it is obvious that you are…ignorant. ^Slayer^ irc.NoDramaIRC.net #nsane-tech Anonymous April 27th, 2006 5:42 pm HOLY CRAP! *THIS* is the christian right? The moral majority?! Please tell me this blog was written by an 8 year old? Please god. If not, I honestly fear for the future of this country and the world. Supporting an evil corporate monopoly and calling linux “evil”?! WTF? Anonymous April 27th, 2006 5:54 pm FREEBSD ALL THE WAY KNACKERS! linux is freeware. it will never be a hit because of people like you who are too stupid to run it Anonymous April 27th, 2006 5:57 pm you make us republicans look bad. your not a republican….. YOUR A FACIST! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 7:02 pm Linux® is also being criticized by animal rights activists, because each Linux® machine needs a real living penguin within the machine’s case (for cooling reasons). If the Linux® upswing continues, the activists fear all members of the penguin species might be eradicated by 2007. Source: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Linux Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:12 pm This is the funniest Troll ever! Absolutely brilliant! Kudos to you for getting all these people to bite. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 8:56 pm Shelly, you are a DISGRACE to conservatives. I myself am a Linux user, i am also a conservative living in Chicago, an extreamly liberal city. First off your blog is FILLED WITH HOLES, linux is based off unix WHICH IS AN AMERICAN INVENTION, linux itself was not made in the US, but most of its distributions are made in the united states. Linux, unlike Windows, is an operating system based on sharing and having the perfect OS, not some operating system that hasnt had a true update sense its release in the 80s (windows). Im sorry but your the kind of ignorant person that makes conservatives look bad, think/know about what you write, you odviosly have no knowlage about comptuers, or software itself… Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:30 pm Fuck you bloodsucking USnians!!! Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:54 pm What kind of retard are you ? It’s just astonishing that you DARE make a connection between linux and Al Qaida. The big brainwashing campain about terrorists might works for invading countries and kill innocent people to get their oil. But linux has NOTHING to do with the terrorists. You better ask yourself where those terrorist got their guns instead of how they afforded it, because you forgot to mention that your lovely america also a world leader in weapons makingdealing. So leave Linux alone and start asking yourself real questions. Just keep voting for bush, you retarded moron. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 9:56 pm Tristan, you are an idiot. God bless. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:32 pm oh god, my belly still hurts from laughing too much. i wonder if since the article was published on 4/20 you were too 420ed while writing it -m Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:53 pm No wonder schools in the United States are going downhill. Just reading how misinformed and uneducated people are in this comments thread, and how willing they are to give up freedoms to our government is unbeleavable. Microsoft is a disease, and Linux is the cure. Anonymous April 27th, 2006 10:56 pm EXCELLENT ARTICLE! This post is excellent, comic entertainment. I read it and laughed for 5 straight minutes. Doctor Suse April 28th, 2006 12:08 am Re: The cure for Microsoft addiction There is a nasty disease going around. The symptoms are an inability to control your own life or finances, and a growing sense of helplessness and dependence on a certain misguided company bent on global domination. Sufferers will actually go to a computer shop, spend many hundreds of THEIR dollars on a computer, turn it on, and ask it what it wants them to do next (they are usually told to constantly feed more money into it, that they have no rights, that they have to have MS spyware and DRM infections installed, because Sir Bill has ruled that all humans are guilty until proven innocent, and so on…). Linux has matured and become the reasonable OS of choice for those who are sick and tired of playing a Monopoly video game on their MS consumer-milking-appliances. If MS is the disease, Linux is the cure. What a great feeling to load a wonderful operating system built by a global cooperative of free thinkers who are not enslaved in the MS-matrix. You can make YOUR computer run ANYWAY you want, because, after all, it is YOUR COMPUTER. BTW – try openSUSE or some other FREE modern Linux distro – no security issues – built-in Open Office software (fully compatible with MSoffice documents, and also supporting the global Open Document format), including a huge selection of excellent open source/free software – no MSBS. In addition, if you so wish you can actually learn how a computer works, instead of learning to navigate in an artificial MS software maze while dropping dollar bills in a vain attempt to find your way out again… (end anti-MS rant) (I am stating an educational web site to show how easy it is to run Linux and kick the MS-habit). DoctorSuse.com Anonymous April 28th, 2006 12:21 am Did anyone notice the Amazon.com advertisement for linux books on the side of this blog? Anonymous April 28th, 2006 12:23 am Shelly your a damn fool! Linux is global by nature because software development is part of the overall global economy. Trust me the Swedes and the chinese aren’t out to get us here. Linux is inherentily more secure than M$ in most cases and uses less recources, that’s why most of the internet is run on linux and why it’s being widely adopted by business. There’s a whole community behind linux that has worked very hard over the years to give people a better altenative to Microsoft and Apple. And by the way, most businesses do pay for linux distros and support for them as well. One last thing, why should anyone have to pay multiple times over to install windows on every new PC they buy? It’s because Microsoft can do it to us, not becuase it’s right. Get a brain and please don’t ever talk about anything related to computers ever again. Anonymous April 28th, 2006 12:27 am IBM thinkpad was designed by some of the greatest architects in the world. They are from Yokohama, Japan. Not USA! Unix was American though… do you hate unix too? If you don’t, then you don’t hate linux or OSX. Although, I am sure plenty of hippies created BSD. Perhaps you should read some. I bet you still believe that world is only 3,000 years old too? Sean Mitchell April 28th, 2006 12:29 am Thanks for the laugh, quite enjoyed it. Please keep running windows. Anonymous April 28th, 2006 1:23 am Dudes, Linux may have more security holes than Windows(e.g. crackers stole info from Red Hat Linux)its this number Linux:Windows—> 3650:851 that maybe a big number, but some cracker and Hackers only wants to hit the number thing, so they got onto Windows cause most people use it, Linux can have more viruses than Windows IF more people use Linux, but now more people use Windows, so go use Linux, but if your a NOT a simple comsumer, like you wana host websites blah blah blah, go use Windows Server 2003 series, hen we all go flaming around blah blah blah, you get viruses cause of stupidity of opening mail that looks suspisios just by the title and sender name, but theres always people stupid enuf to open them, theres always some stupid heads visiting WareZ site without protection and/or precaution, stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid. zehunter April 28th, 2006 1:25 am hey, so you KNOWN Where ben laden is right? if you can confirm and be sure like that that he use linux, in fact CIA should arrest you and ask you to tell the thrue about him…. more of that, yes your website is running under linux…. and oh, how can you say that, linux it’s a unix sytem, liku sun one in fact… oh maybe sun is a chinese company? you so crazy, and i’m sure you still waiting for your damn fgood president (yes it’s a european jokle) to tell you where are the massif destructif weapon… lol!!!!! oh and you don’t explain why virus exist on windows or mac and not into linux? yes we have anti virus…. but to be able to ckeck remotly into windows systema that have been infected… SCC May 8th, 2006 6:51 am “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. ” Well, you’re damned right! but you forgot to mention that the airplains that were used by alqaeda were Boeing (American build!) that 75% of all the armament used by terrorist is build by Americans, that sniffing software used to read ALL emails passing by the internet was used by FBI, NSA and CIA (all American ‘legal’ companies) that Bush is growing its fortune with the growth of petrol & oil prices, that a Kid in the USA must have at least 21 to buy a beer or go to a bar, but may have only 12years old to buy a UZI!!!! i’ve always heard that “America is the land of freedom, where everything is prohibited” … Said by an “enlighted” american friend! Please gow up! Or at least, get to know Europe as us europeans know USA! By the way, doesn’t the bible says “you shell not kill your brother”? then why the hell you american cowboys keep getting involved in wars and start your own war??! Anonymous May 8th, 2006 7:08 am This is a joke, right? Anonymous May 8th, 2006 7:13 am I am from Russian-european-chinese forces and we are going to destroy USA by using open source! booboo Linux booboo! Anonymous May 8th, 2006 7:28 am hey, I now require a new pair of boxers since I laughed so hard I went to the toilet in them…. I got news for you… Microsofts own IIS webservers for microsoft.com hides behind linux proxies coz their so affraid of hackers defacing their website (AGAIN! and AGAIN! and AGAIN! and AGAIN!) Do non of u look outside the box that microsoft has drawn for you… are u so blind into thinking that the only reason for using linux is to get around copyright (nero springs to mind). This would have to be an american site…. americans love their own creations… just like they love AOL! Anonymous May 8th, 2006 7:43 am Fuck god (Windows XP), fuck you ( Shelley Goodman) and long live satan!(linux) Anonymous May 8th, 2006 8:25 am This is the funniest thing I’ve read in ages! Whats even funnier is that 400+ people havent seemed to realise that this is, in fact, a joke! Excellent, guys, keep this up. Its amazing how many gullible people there are around! :) Johny the Ripper May 8th, 2006 8:41 am Thanks dude, you made me laugh like I never did in my life. You should write for Uncyclopedia.org too! :D Anonymous May 8th, 2006 8:58 am HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!!!!!!….. I am laughing my ass off!!!!…. Shelley, ARE YOU REAL????? I thought all my live that to be a politician you should have attended primary school at least!!! My GOD!!, what an ignorant you are….. Good luck. Anonymous May 8th, 2006 9:33 am You kill a man, you’re a murdered, kill 100 you’re a king, kill them all you’re god, try to kill Linux and you’re a dead man. Anonymous May 8th, 2006 10:52 am Little does she know that Linux and free, open source software is the old loss-leader business model where you give something away for free only to raise the price on other things you *really* want to sell. Businesses have been doing it for years and it has nothing to do with Communism. In fact, it’s the truest capitalism. You can open the newspaper on any given day and look at all the loss leader vehicles the car dealerships are advertising. And if it undercuts the competitor, that’s the point of capitalism. Anonymous May 8th, 2006 11:04 am Computers are an american invention? Good Joke. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse Anonymous May 8th, 2006 11:14 am gees all you windows lovers know shit about computers all of that so called great guy called gates is all the time swalling small companies absorving their programs so they can’t face with microsoft shit that dude has broken several international laws and never prossecuted serioussly but most people of the world does’nt know that windos is just for dummies and linux is for experient people with knowledge of os so think what you’re saying sorry for the english Anonymous May 8th, 2006 11:24 am I’m still not sure if this site is a joke or if is the blog of a truly fanatic person. I mean, it looks too much consistent for a joke, but the articles (and comets) can’t be true. In either case thanks for the good laughs. In case this is a real blog here are my thoughts: I can’t belive that some one can be this fanatic. People really need to to be more critic of what they see on the media (no matter their political alineation), and to learn what words like socialism, comunism and marxism before they start using them. Oh and please if you don’t anything about Free Software, Linux, or Computers in general don’t make statements about it. A final note: People, ideas and political ideologies that are extreme on either side of the political spectrum sickens me alike. I have always wandered what makes some people become so fanatical and loose their perspective on things. Anonymous May 8th, 2006 11:48 am http://paddedcell.filetrekker.com/index.php?showtopic=1034 Oh no! Microsoft have a huge Macintosh lab! They must be secretly conspiratorial Communists, too! Oh, wait, they can’t be, because they’re a monopolistic corporation that releases substandard overprices products. I can’t believe there are people on this world so stupid. If God exists, he must be so embarrassed by your invoking of his name in your HOLY CRUSADE AGAINST LINUS TORVALDS! I am laughing so hard at your utter lack of intelligence right now. leck May 8th, 2006 11:55 am if you want m16 go on linux and whrite sudo apt-get install m16 pov con leck Anonymous May 8th, 2006 12:11 pm LMAO! That is a realy funny article! windows and innovation - those two words could not be even in a same sentense. Everybody knows, that MS-DOS is a bad copy of UNIX. Jeez. Is this a joke or aru U americans realy SO egoistic or are u judt STUPID! Anonymous May 8th, 2006 12:18 pm This is the best parody site since Landover Baptist. Thanks for the laffs!! eye Anonymous May 8th, 2006 2:15 pm Ha ha. This article is hilarious. oooo Linux is going to terrorize the planet… ooo…Im sooo scared. The Taliban uses labtops.. uhhh what??? lol!! U repubs are as hollow headed as ur leader! rotfl. Thanks for the entertainment. fipa May 8th, 2006 3:04 pm LOL. This article is very funny, i like your sense of absurd humor. And what do you think of the dangerous threat of soccer?! I think the communists have something to do… Arnauh May 8th, 2006 3:24 pm This website is for decent Americans ONLY. Sorry, I write from Spain (on the right when you look a world map…crossing the atlantic…I would suggest using google maps, but better not) You answered this to a petition of writing to a commenter to show him/her you are real: Sorry, I will not write to you. You are probably just using my email address to send me hate mail. Err…did you realized you give 2 contact emails in three different places on this very website? One is on the “about me” section, the others are at the contact section of your blogger profile (nice to see one of your fav. movies is Jesus Christ Superstar) After that, and before reading the post (if I did not read it yet), I have two hipotesis: 1: You are dementially dumb! or the one I hope is the true one: 2: Yor dealer has fuc’in’ really great stuff!!!! So, can you tell me his phone/email? I beg you!!! Nothing more. And don’t worry. I always bring my own lye to disinfect places I desecrate, like this blog. It’s american, so you can be sure it will kill all viruses, bacteria and ectoplasms my spanish-contemptible-body would drop. After that, I will disinfect myself too. Amen brothers. PD: now seriously. I don’t want to believe all north american people are like you. It can’t be. Anonymous May 8th, 2006 3:56 pm Dear Shelley. Google use Linux and Unix Solutions. U maybe dont use Linux directly but ure Hosting Provider …. The 70% of USA Hosting Services and Services Pages are hosting in Apache or GNU Software. read more… talk less… Anonymous May 8th, 2006 4:20 pm Hello USA, I use Linux, my parents use Linux, my grandparents use Linux, my cat uses Linux! And we are all comunist!!! Think, I share my house with my parents!!! I’m soo comunist!!! Yeah red!!! Computers with Linux emit an ultrasonic wave, which change your ideas from republican to comunist!!! I’m sorry Shelly, but Europeans like me use Linux and are all mind influenced from this software, please free our minds!!! Please help me!!! Oh…no, I can’t resist any more, Linux is regaining control over me…please… —-Rebooting Brain—– Loading comunist mind [ok] Aggressive comportament to republicans [ok] All comunist setting done…..starting! Hi Shelly, my name is Comunist253728, I must infect USA with comunism! Don’t do resistence and prepare to be unit to the community!!! Anonymous May 8th, 2006 4:40 pm Bwahahahaaaa! Nicely done parody blog. This is the good stuff. :D bemused May 8th, 2006 6:41 pm Just for laughs let us suppose that I am not American. Let us suppose I read the gospel not the bible but the latter half of that book. The guy at seems to be a bit of socialist type, don’t you think? Or do you. :P And for more fun, ring your ISP and ask them what kind of machines they are hosting web sites on. Was the Tuttle city web site ever hosted on linux a derivitive. What can I say. Cent OS mean anything :-)))))))) Anonymous May 8th, 2006 7:40 pm haha IBM is changing to redhat linux. haha trading out windows for linux. and didn’t gates steal windows from apple? see the resemblense in the first versions of windows? and the reason why linux don’t have spyware or anti virus is cuz there is no need. open sorce ftw. and ps, if u know ur american history, you should remember that white americans come from Europe. so dont talk down on where your forfathers came from. Ray May 8th, 2006 7:54 pm Oh my god, i juste can’t believe what i’m reading here ! I guess i’m not welcome on this website, cause i’m : a) European b) More precisely French (so, maybe you’ll excuse my poor English, after all i’m just a poor illiterate french guy) c) Running Linux on my computer d) Working for a French IT company, which mostly runs Linux on its computers (There are a few ones running Windows, but nobody’s perfect)… Here are some little things you can think about : - Linux is a Unix based OS. It’s totally Unix compatible. From what I know, Unix is an OS which was first written by Sun mycrosystems, a good old American company. - What is Microsoft ? Just a big company, like many others around the world (IBM, Sun, google, Oracle, etc…). Like every company, it’s main purpose is to make money. So they created Windows, Office, and lots of other softwares. They use them to make money, they are probably the biggest software company in the world (well, i’m not sure about that, IBM might be a little bigger), but my point is that they only want one thing : Money. They’re not patriots, they’re just businessmen… - What is Windows ? Just a software, like many others. Well, it’s a little bit more than that. It’s THE software, the one over 90% of the PCs are running. But this software is not perfect, it’s just one between many others. What makes it special is that it’s used by a lot of people, who most of the time don’t know they can whoose alternative OS, and who, most of the time don’t even know there are alternative softwares. They are not informed, which leads some of them to talk about Linux as you do… - What is Linux ? Another software. It is European (well, actually, not only European, many of the distribs are American), which is probably the reason why you hate it so much. It is open source, which, i guess, is why you fear it (There are so many hackers in Europe, while there are none in America…). But in the end, it’s just a software, which might one day hopefully compete with Windows. Well, I’m just a poor French guy, so i guess you’ll say that everything i mentionned is crap, but anyway, i had to say it.. I’ve lived in Montreal for a year, i’ve travelled through the US, and hopefully i never met anybody as intolerant as you are. All the American people i’ve met are kind and welcoming, so i guess i’m gonna stay on that souvenir… Anonymous May 8th, 2006 9:15 pm Report them to the Business Software Alliance who have the legal authority to inspect any company’s computers for illegal programs like Linux. You know it’s really pretty amazing anyone has taken this troll seriously. Then again perhaps the comments are also trolls and I should be ashamed for taking them seriously. Or perhaps I am a troll and you should be ashamed for taking me seriously. Or perhaps you are all trolls and you should be ashamed of taking yourselves seriously. I can’t tell any more, so I guess it comes down to me being ashamed seriously. Anyway thanks for the yucks. Anonymous May 8th, 2006 9:49 pm This article was the craziest bull shit I have ever read. I really don�t understand how Christians can also be pro capitalism, or at least pro big business. Remember, Jesus said it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go to heaven. Anonymous May 9th, 2006 1:13 am Is it possible, just possible that you guys might be a member of some information technology based supremicist group. I’m wondering if you guys were white robes when surfing the internet and burn cardboard TUX’s There is one thing about being patriotic and another about being plain stupid. Most of us Australians think you dam yanks are idiots. Australian Army has a standing order that you never walk infront of a yank marine with a gun. I can see why! Australian Governments are embracing linux and open source environments because of the cost issues, Microsoft claim its piracy that drives their costs up, most of the financially under privalidged that utilise priated software only do so because they cannot afford it. the OSSWIN project is further eating into microisofts profit share as programs that can easily do what microsoft programs can flood the market free of charge. Want everyone in the world to use the buggy american crap created in redmond??? drop its price so the pirates can’t make money and everyone will buy the originals. My machine is 100% legal but only has two microoft products on it the rest are OSSWIN. Triangle May 9th, 2006 2:12 am Hi, Never read before a so knowledge poor post : 90% of webservers running in the world are under Apache an open-source software. The reason because is that Linux is an Unix, worldknown for his stability and security skills. The other reason why not builtin antivirus and antispyware is that there are no virus and nospyware avalable in this OS (like MacOS that is an Unix too). All IT peoples know that WinXP inspired from BSD and that the coming Vista inspired from Linux and MacOS… Anonymous May 9th, 2006 4:17 am I’m just amazed people bothered to answer your blind stupidity and ignorance. We don’t all hate you because you’re American… we hate you because of your ignorance and stupidity. I can’t even be bothered to explain your wrongnesses to you… you are obviously beyond help and have your head shoved so far up your own that all information is wrong… no matter it’s correctness or source. Enjoy your blind ignorance… it must be bliss. Anonymous May 9th, 2006 4:31 am Thank you for a really funny post. Very Monty Python like. Cheers from Australia. LinkoVitch May 9th, 2006 4:49 am Computers and american Invention? So Charles Babbage… Difference Engine? And how about the key hidden in the name of the binary encoding.. Manchester Encoding, something to do with the 1st stored program computer being developed and invented in Manchester University ENGLAND. Before going off on some paranoid diatribe, perhaps you should get some HARD FACTS and not internet gossip. Osama Bin Laden has a laptop? He lives (if he still does) most likley in a cave with little use for a computer, and I hardly think he is a DVD copying carboot selling pirate. You seem perfectly happy with the american software industry costing the american citizen a huge wad of cash tho for software that should be free. If you looked into it you will tend to find linux support agencies which you pay for, the softwre is free, if you want support or SLA’s you pay, it’s just a different model. Of course I am speaking to a brain dead paranoid idiot so I guess you probably don’t understand much of this. Actually.. given you are so paranoid, how much Pot you smoking? you know it can lead to paranoia right? If you are so happy to throw baseless accusations at people you have never met or even bothered to try and communicate with, I see no problem in what must (with your logic) be a hard fact that you are a hard core drug abuser. Get yourself to rehab… Anonymous May 9th, 2006 4:49 am Microsoft use LINUX/UNIX for security Shelly. Back in the kitchen please, ill have some eggs. edmittance May 9th, 2006 5:08 am ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha woohooo ha ha ha hee hee hee yaha yaha yaha splutter gurgle honk woo hoo hoo ya ha ha ha (tea gushing out of nose i’m laughing so hard) hahahahahahahahahaha. oooh stop it i’m going to wet myself…. this is classic.. “…And guess what software Osama Bin Laden uses on his laptop?…” woooo ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha yeeeehooo bra bonk chortle… titter… fantastic. brilliant Anonymous May 9th, 2006 5:15 am time to stand in a corner with foil on head and deny that aliens don’t exist ;) Anonymous May 9th, 2006 5:18 am Thanks for ypur article. Now I am sure that you nothing about informatics and computer world. Linux is an operating system (like Windows). You should know that Microsoft uses Linux on its servers. It is a free sofware and not illegal at all. You should think twice what you write, because the whole world will be laughing at you. Sucker! Anonymous May 9th, 2006 5:43 am Ze Penguins are coming!! The day of reckoning is upon us!! Noooooooo!! The best thing is without *unix the world would probably stop as winblows would have crashed Earth’s Axis or something :D Anonymous May 9th, 2006 6:34 am Hi Tristan, Fun stuff - the level of knowledge in this article made me think of to jerks competing over a woman showing muscles and burning tires. - Jesper ps. If I should say anything serious about this article … I just couldn’t Anonymous May 9th, 2006 11:30 am Tristan….I think you`re mistaken…. your opinion is completely unfortunate. I don�t believed your ignorance. Perhaps U.S.A is a stupid because a people like you. Really nothing intelligent… where are the Freedom and the Liberalism???.Ahhhh!!!!…The Republicans Anonymous May 9th, 2006 12:27 pm YEAH LETS KILL THE COMMUNIST SOFTWARE! SCREW THEM LINUX USERS! UNIX LIKE ROCKS Kasper De Geeter May 9th, 2006 1:27 pm You are clearly the classical American Republican Idiot. You have absolutly no idea of how the modern computer business. First of all, all those IBM stuff that sits in your computer is produced in Malaysia or China. Secondly, you seriously think that military software is written by foreign hackers? Perhaps if your military software were running on a LINUX system, less innocent people would have been (and will be) killed in all those wars. And Osama Bin Laden is running LINUX??? Your intelligence services’ aren’t even capable of locating him, how would they ever know what Os he is running? thirdly, LINUX is based on UNIX written by, guess what, an American company… Fourth, LINUX illegal? On what planet do you live? I pity you and all people that agree with you… Kasper Anonymous May 9th, 2006 2:29 pm Man, your post is becoming famous around the world… you did it! That’s what you wanted, right? Greetings from Spain. Anonymous May 9th, 2006 3:15 pm Hi all! I’m Italian, yeah Italian like pizza,spaghetti,mafia and… well if all Americans are like you Shelly… I’ll hate Cristoforo Colombo, that morning he can stay to home. In Italy, Americans doesn’t have a good reputation, and there are many anti-american people, Italians doesn’t hate USA because they are jelous, but because many Italians think that all Americans are like you! Italian people like peace, food, jokes, good guys. You are the opposite, and if you don’t want to give a bad impression of your country [which you love so much] please be more mind-opened. Europeans people are so different from Americans, we don’t like war, it does’n exist a right war. We don’t like no type of war!!! Maybe because, we [our grandparents, but the records are strong] have lived war on our country house by house, meters by meters.We know what is the meaning of the fear to be impossibilitated to save the family or house. Americans have fought everywhere, everytime, but they doesn’t know what is have war in house! Well sayng all… Americans saved Italy, not for humanity, but for money! We know,but i don’t know if you know… Well americans arrived in Sicilia because they accorded with Mafia. Because the best way to save Italy was to arrive in Tuscany. Last words… Do you know what is a war??? Do you know what is a Hacker??? Do you know what is Linux??? Do yo know??? To be better, must be the worst. Linux Rulez! Anonymous May 9th, 2006 3:50 pm Oh, dear. That`s the biggest piece of crap I have ever read in my life. How can anyone believe ANYTHING on this blog after reading such bullshit. I know I wouldn`t, if I read it any further. I would also be ashamed of being a republican after reading that shit (if I was one). Some people should be punished for stupidity. Unless, of course, this is a joke. Anonymous May 9th, 2006 5:19 pm This rant is BS without sources… And just to let you know most government websites are run on linux Now if you want to go to my site and read about what I’ve learned about Microsoft go to http://anti-ms.linuxsecured.com as the name suggests its anti-Microsoft with actually proof that Microsoft is evil. I have sources backing up my statement- something this page is severly lacking PS…. If the site isnt working check back some other time, its still a work in progress and it will not be up all the time David Tomaschik May 9th, 2006 7:32 pm Why can’t people be bothered to learn a single thing about what they write about before they spew forth nonsense? A huge portion of the Microsoft Windows development team aren’t even Americans, so how can you claim to support that? –Written on a Linux Box. Anonymous May 9th, 2006 10:53 pm dude…are you really this n�ive? i can’t believe you really believe all this “information” i’m a mexican (just in case you were wondering) and i use linux because it’s made by people who love what they do, and they do it well, so the system is better than windows in evry aspect if you can’t see beyond your nose and really believe all this shit you write, i can only say i feel sorry for you i hope this blog is just a farse or a joke, because if it’s real, well…what a pity Linus Torvals May 9th, 2006 11:46 pm Well, there’s no doubt linux owns you, but i’m wondering, why do you call yourself a christian? A real christian wouldn’t support someone who’s into masonery, i.e. president George W. Bush (skulls&bones). Use google, face the thruth. Christian republicans are a shame for the sacrifice that Jesus did for us. This most likely means you’re burning in hell, biatch. (just for bashing on linux that is) Anonymous May 10th, 2006 12:25 am Shelley - do some basic research. (If this is a joke then you have done a fantastic job). Anonymous May 10th, 2006 12:42 am VIVA LA REVOLUTION VIVA LA LINUX :p Anonymous May 10th, 2006 12:54 am All I can say is LOL, never seen so much bullshit on one page… Check THIS out ignorant: http://www.linuxedge.org/?q=node/58 1.Download the video 2. I know… u can believe LINUX is that good 3. One thing to say: WOWWW Anonymous May 10th, 2006 1:33 am Awesome article. Funniest yet, today, and its already 8AM. :) Almost as funny as the SCO website hack “SCO owns all your code. Pay us all your money!” And people, to be obvious for one sec, the original author of this article was obviously being satiric. I can’t believe how many people neglect to see it. :P Anonymous May 10th, 2006 1:51 am RUN FOR YOU LIFE!!! Russkie on the streets of you hometown! Anonymous May 10th, 2006 4:55 am What a bunch of inbred redneck retards! I really hope this article is a joke. Anonymous May 10th, 2006 7:03 am Thanks your for this article. All my french computer scientist school laught about it. I hope just that you make humour, but if it’s not that O_o n.e.x Anonymous May 10th, 2006 7:19 am When I read such things from the americans I always think they are joking, but then you realise they really mean it! lol here in europe Anonymous May 10th, 2006 8:58 am Ive been laughing and reading here and just to light abit more… Have you ever looked for your roots ?? I Mean.. the Indians history is veryvery old.. but who really populated america ? Have you thought about that ?? But I can give you hint about maby europe… Ok Google the rest.. or maby I think msn-search alto can give you the answers *ROFL* Next time please do a little research before you says something stupid like you did.. To say that europe = comunism is similaer to that Bush said he was god.. Hope you meant it as a joke shelley… but Im like others afraid you didnt.. K@S Anonymous May 10th, 2006 9:22 am Definitely you’re a complete moron, Shelley. Just one example: For your information, in case you didn’t know… Microsoft servers are running in Linux, go figure. Pedantic ICT teacher May 10th, 2006 9:47 am Can’t belive i’m posting on this thread having just read all the way through it. but felt i should correct a miscomprehension that people keep flirting around. namely the fact that people keep saying that shelleytherepublican.com is a linux peice of software. A response keeps coming back that the only software and hardware being used is windows . a webdesign package is being used on windows , with windows software to create the website. This argument seems to have been made about 4-5 times during the thread. But seems to have a lack of understanding of each persons postion. Yes this website was made on a windows machine with windows software (although for fairness’s sake the argument that there is no software to do it on linux was a bit of a lie as there is a wonderfull webdeisgn package called NVU which is available for both linux and windows) however it was then uploaded to a webserver. Now web servers share HTML and PHP (+.net etc) with the web. All these items are “open” (oh dear that word) standards allowing any software to view them. So a web page made in windows CAN be read on a Linux machine and vis versa. So why do people keep claiming that shelleytherepublican.com is a linux site? because the webservers (these things which share the web outwards) are running linux. Shelly uploads the site to blogger, or enters the info on the blogger, blog cretion page (sorry i have an LG rather than a blogger account so not sure how it works here) . then the blogger LINUX webservers share it with the web. So each time this has come up you have both been right…. The page is made using microsoft software. however when uploaded it is shared using bloggers linux computers. - pedantic ICT teacher Anonymous May 10th, 2006 9:54 am well lets see, American computer companies outsource to to countries for support, for parts, your laptop was probably made by lite-on in Korea. at a loss to so called American jobs. software piracy is actually caused by the software industry, think i am joking? by a buggy worthless program, open the box and then try to return it for a legit reason. one more thing, please let the world know exactly how you know what Bin laden runs on his laptop. considering that no one in the free world can find him. its obvious you have much better Intelligence network than the United States, Britton, Anonymous May 10th, 2006 10:41 am Shelley, you don’t seem to actually know what LINUX is.. You can still learn about at http://www.ibm.com/linux/ Yes.. the American company IBM supports Linux. Another one ? http://www.linux.hp.com Stay tuned :-) VHF May 10th, 2006 11:54 am Microsoft.com use a linux server to cache content. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/08/17/wwwmicrosoftcom_runs_linux_up_to_a_point_.html And Shelley, go read http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Linux err, I forgot, wikipedia is marxist too :D Anonymous May 10th, 2006 12:38 pm Hi there guys. I’m so surprised by the ignorance or troller attitude of Tristan. Writting an article like this… Linux as been first developped by a man called Linux Torvald and based on Unix, the biggest Linux community is from USA I think. How many times do you have to reboot your windows system per day wil you’re working. Why is there so many security failure on Windows ? Most of Windows update are to patch these security failure. But of course Linux is not so well designed, Windows can read all your movies with Windows mediaplayer (no competitor allowed of course). If you have worked only once with true network administrator, they all will talk to you about Linux and its stability. But that’s true playing to Sim City 4 and PES 5 is not possible under linux, or in fact, without feinting the game that you’re running windows. Linux is a community as said before, Linux has always existed because Linux is just a way of thinking an OS and the “spirit” of linux is something higher of free-thinking. Sorry for my english, but I’m french ;) See you guys a french guy ^_^ Mathew Carley May 10th, 2006 12:45 pm I think that Shelley and Tristan (in particular) are obviously misguided, and, like so many people with similar political attitudes and blindness, have not CHECKED THEIR FACTS before posting such an obviously silly article. First of all: Tristan, your IBM Laptop was not built in America, nor with American parts, is not supported by American staff at the call centres and half of the people who write Windows are not native Americans. Look at the credits - half of the names are Asian (including India). Secondly: As I understand it, American engineering is demonstratably not as good and often inferior to European or Asian engineering. I refer mostly to Cars and Electronics, of course, but many other American products don’t come close in terms of quality. There are some very nice all-American things there, but it is certainly not the majority of any products I’ve ever used. Thirdly: You do not have a lead in computing technology. End of story. With regards to Linux: you say “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.” I’m not sure how to say this, but it is blatantly a lie. SCO did not even own the rights to UNIX (until 1995) at the time Linux was first released (1991), and the company that did at that time (Novell) is now (one of the) largest Linux distribution companies on the planet. Speaking of which, could it be coincidence that at least two of the 3 largest Linux vendors are American? How does that make Linux, or even open-source an anti-American product, or even movement? “Unlike Windows, which is a mature commercial product which is normally included with every new computer, Linux is given away. Now it may not sound like much of a problem, after all there is very little profit in merely giving a product away.” Uh, if you say so. I must ask: when did you use Linux? How about I come over there with my laptop and show you how pretty and functional it is. Linux in 1998…2000… 2004 even, is very different to Linux in 2006. It is the same with Microsoft Windows - just compare Windows 95 or NT 4.0 to XP and you’ll see how far both operating systems have come in the past 10 years. “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.” There is no ideology. There is no religion. Not everyone is a star-wars geek, hard core hacker, indian, chinese, russian… whatever. Red-blooded conservatives use linux too, and frankly it is becoming very difficult to avoid doing so. Set-top boxes, Cellphones, PDAs, Mini-laptops, Portable DVD players and various other devices are often running on top of Linux (or a variant thereof), 70% or thereabouts of all websites you visit are running on Linux - including whitehouse.gov (parts of which are also known to use Sun Solaris and FreeBSD, which are both free and open-source software as well as very similar to Linux itself. Solaris, though, is “proper UNIX” so to speak, and FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD are derivatives of UNIX. “These days computers control everything from TV stations to battleships; Our crucial information and defense infrastructure is built on computer technology. If we allow this cancer into our networks, there is no knowing what the effect might be on our infrastructure, but that is just what liberals are trying to do.” Cancer? Wow, thats a bit harsh. I hate to be the one to tell you, but it it already very well lodged in all of these places; as well as the equivalent divisions in the alliance (such as UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and so forth). “Imagine if the State of the Union address were hacked because the TV station decided to save money by using Linux? Imagine if a stealth-bomber crashed because it’s software was written by anonymous Chinese or European hackers.” This is why anyone implementing software for mission-critical applications such as this would AUDIT THE CODE - something you are legally allowed to do with Open-Source software. I find it interesting that you seem to believe also that there are not hundreds of thousands of US born-and-raised “hackers” writing code for these pieces of software. As before, if you think Microsoft software is only developed in Redmond, by US born-and-raised programmers, well… I think you have another thing coming. “And guess what software Osama Bin Laden uses on his laptop? If you guessed it was Linux you would be 100% right. ” I would hate to think how you could know (and prove) that theory. If you could prove that theory, well, I am sure your government would reward you quite nicely for letting them know where Osama has been for the past few years. “Osama uses Linux because he knows designed to counterfit DVDs, curcumventing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and defraud companies like Disney.” This is pure speculation. It is NOT designed to counterfeit DVDs, and it is not designed to circumvent any of your (crazy) laws, nor defraud any companies. I would imagine that these sorts of computer crimes happen far more frequently on a Windows machine than on a Linux machine, and not just because of market share. “But there is something you can do to help keep American #1 in the computer business:” It has not been #1 for a long time. “If one of your friends is using Linux or may be tempted to try it show them this article. Explain that Linux is a genuine threat and that by using it they may be opening their computer to Chinese hackers.” I have seen this happen far more often on a Windows machine than on any other platform. In fact, the “hacker” was probably American, but that’s beside the point. “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.” I don’t know how you could pay for Free, Open Source software, but I am sure the developers don’t mind a few dollars here and there. If the BSA were to inspect a computer running Linux, particularly in a business, in all likelyhood they are going to find Free, Open Source software. It’s not necessarily a budget thing as to why some people use Linux - it’s a choice and often a decision made to ensure that there is maximum effectiveness for whatever the task of the machine is. In the case of Web Hosting, more often than not, Linux is most effective. Linux may not be the best choice of a gamer (Windows), video or music editor (Mac OS) or Accountant (as most accounting software is written for Windows). Linux is not illegal, and the fact that you publish this belief as fact just shows me that, as I suspected, you didn’t check your facts. I fail to see how you were made an IT manager - someone with that kind of experience should be more accurate. “Yes, Linux is a primative European clone; It is much less capable than Windows. In fact it omits features that were standard in Windows back in 1998; For example Linux has no built-in anti-virus or anti-spyware software.” Yes and no. I’ve already mentioned that Linux has come a long way, as has Windows. Capability depends on purpose, as per the previous paragraph(s). Linux does not need Anti-Virus software, as there are not very many Linux viruses that are actually able to spread. In saying that, F-Secure and ClamAV are two anti-virus titles for Linux, off the top of my head - both are available also for Windows and most of the time they are used on Linux Mail Servers to remove Viruses in emails sent to Windows users. Oh the irony. Oh yes, and… there is no spyware (if there is any, it can’t be very effective) on the Linux platform. “You cannot even buy popular utilities like Norton Security to compensate for this fact. There are no tools for common tasks like defragging a hard disk. God knows what you would use to send a fax or make a website. You cannot even get Front Page for Linux.” As someone who seems to be advocating capitalism - it is simply silly to create a piece of software (such as Norton Internet Security for Linux) when there is no use for it. It makes no business sense - you should know that! The file systems commonly used for Linux (ext3 and ReiserFS) do not need defragging like Fat32 does. Even Windows NT/2000/XP’s NTFS doesn’t really need defragging like Fat32 does. Whilst you can not get Frontpage, Dreamweaver etc for Linux, there are many other Web Design Environments available which work just as well and/or better. “Linux is that bad; The only explaination I can think for people using it is that it by-passes the protection given by American companies and the Dept of Homeland Security. It should be considered a terrorist program.” Uh, what? What is the Dept of Homeland Security trying to protect me against? More importantly, why are they even concerned with what I do on my computer… especially if I am not doing anything illegal. Oh wait, I am using Linux - I’m therefore plotting to overthrow the US government. (Actually, I am on Windows XP typing this, but only because I need to use Frontpage… not! No self-respecting web-designer uses Frontpage, for a start!) Why must “alternative” methods be used in order to (for example) watch a DVD on Linux? Money. The developers of the software can’t afford to pour in the tens of thousands of dollars in licensing fees in order to obtain a little key to put in the software. If they took away said protection from DVD discs, then there wouldn’t be a problem now, would there? Linux users wouldn’t have to circumvent anything in order to use something that they most likely brought (or at least rented). “Also I would like to mention that Apple’s ‘Mac Os X’ is a real threat, too. This damn extrem leftwing company is giving millions to the democ-rats!!!” Extreme? Left wing? It was founded by a couple of Californian geeks, designs its products in California, they are generally solid and reliable — oh yes, and George Bush himself owns not one, but TWO Ipods - a shuffle, and a classic (given to him by Bono of U2). He also has the Beatles on his Ipod - which is illegal, since no Beatles music is made available through any online music store. Oh yes, don’t forget Steve Jobs is now the largest single shareholder in Disney. Swing and a miss, there. shelleytherepublican.com “runs” on Windows 2003 server - hosting by GoDaddy - though it appears to be simply redirecting to her blogger account or something. blogger.com runs on Linux, through and through. If you can **prove** me otherwise (Shelley or Tristan), I will deliver you personally $1000 in various denominations of US currency. http://www.coe.int - “windows-1252″ does not mean RUNS on Windows. It means DEVELOPED on Windows, most likely in MS Frontpage, as few other development environments use 1252 encoding. Strike 1. Further down, Eric says that http://www.coe.int/T/E/Com/Files/Events/2006-cia/ runs on ASP code. Whilst true, it is possible to run ASP code (thanks to MONO) on Linux. Strike two. Contrary to the homepage of coe.int, IT has an encoding of 8859-1. D’oh! References to MS sans serif simply mean that it was developed on Windows. Not that the server is running Windows. Strike three! YOU ARE OUTTA HERE! “Well, this is widely know that google is trying to compete with Microsoft…” In search, yes, but this is not Microsofts core business either. In operating systems, no (not yet). “Using russian hacker tools is not really a proof, more ever if this is a Linux tool made by anarchists.” Well, the website of the guy who created is is registered in California (Sunnyvale), so unless Russia has annexed California recently, well, I guess it’s not a Russian hacker tool! The guy who wrote it DOES use (as his Online Alias) fyodor, which he derived from the name of a Russian Writer. It is, by the way, available for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, BSD and Solaris. “You will also note that Mitnick, being a real hacker, never worked to improve such anti american system as Linux, and he helped usa to be more protected against foreign threat such as chinese and russian hackers by testing the various security system.” You should note that Kevin Mitnick did his thing before Linux existed. There were no software projects of this magnitude at the time. “If you had bothered to check Google’s downloads pages you would see that they do not offer a single Linux download. ” True. It’s the same for the security software I have already mentioned - there isn’t really a market for these apps outside of Windows users. Your average Linux user probably knows what he wants already. BUT, when Google does release Linux and MacOS versions of the software (they are coming, according to Google), this will just invalidate that point. “Indeed, if Blogger.com were using Linux I have no idea how they might have done it? I understand that you cannot get most popular web-site building tools (e.g Frontpage, Dreamweaver) for Linux.” Correct. What you don’t realise, is that for sites serving pages on the scale that blogger does, you do not simply design static webpages in Dreamweaver or Frontpage. I realise that Dreamweaver can be used for editing a variety of code-languages, but in developing a web-application, it is rarely done. There are plenty of special environments for coding in (insert web-language here) for all major platforms, including Linux etc. I don’t think you realise how these sorts of websites are developed. “…but would you really want to use Linix if you could get an affordable professional product like Microsoft Windows?” Let me see… 10,000 servers (This would have been Google in… 1999) * US$90 for an OEM copy… oh wait, server software, with Client Access Licenses… lets say US$1000 all up for Windows Server 2003 and, say, 20 CALs (they are buying in bulk, remember!)… ok there is $1,000,000 just in software, plus 100 admins @ $45,000/year, plus $1,200 for a fairly cheap server… thats (1000*10000)+((45000*100)*3)+(1200*10000)… there goes just under $16m over 3 years before you include things like electricity, data center space, additional security software and so on. Take out the licensing cost and about 33% of the admins, thats 16m-1m-4m… wow, 5m in savings? Ok, fine - lets assume we pay a Linux company (Novell) for their linux, at the same licensing cost - still less admins are required… Dear oh dear, when it comes to price, even if I pay $5,000 per year MORE to each admin, I’m still saving a bundle. But when price isn’t an object, Linux is easier to manage and SCALE. Plus there is none of the Client Access License stuff… Ahh well, the rest of the comments get a bit religious for my liking, I think I have made my point, so I will sign off and see you later! Very funny article, though. Cheers for the laugh and initial shock and disbelief. Mathew Carley Wataru May 10th, 2006 1:00 pm You are fully right! I’m a communist. I’m an anarchist. I’m a terrorist. And, of course, I’m a Linux user. SkogTroll May 10th, 2006 4:35 pm Wataru said… You are fully right! I’m a communist. I’m an anarchist. I’m a terrorist. And, of course, I’m a Linux user. In my arms comrade. Anonymous May 10th, 2006 5:33 pm Thinking it was a joke, I visited the site … and instantaneously stopped laughting. These people used the same ignorance, blindness and self-importance on other subjects : science, history, sexuality … Guys, these people are not funny at all : there are only dangerous! Anonymous May 10th, 2006 6:00 pm Hilarious article. Great job, this inspired me to burn my linux box and go buy another copy of Windows XP just to support Microsoft! Anonymous May 10th, 2006 10:45 pm Linux is not a cancer. Since a very very very small percent of the desktops use it. It’s most used for servers because of the fact that it is an open operating system. That means hundreds of thousands of people can look at the source code and make sure that it is completely safe to use and contains no code that is harmful or abusive. If anything is a cancer, it is the AMERICAN company Apple Computers. Linux is gaining popularity on desktops because Windows is hands-down inferior (default users are administrators for one) and Apple’s OSX is gaining popularity for the exact same reason! I also want to comment on how the word ‘liberal’ is considered bad. If I’m not mistaken, the root word is ‘liberty.’ Something that Linux gives that narrow minded bloggers seem to diminish. Baboulen May 11th, 2006 3:14 am Have in mind that people were teaching philosophy and literature while you were hanging from the trees eating bananas. Anonymous May 11th, 2006 3:27 am Simply, you are an ignorant idiot. marcello May 11th, 2006 3:31 am It’s a fact that your beloved NSA has produced it’s own version of linux, go check it out, moron: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/index.cfm Uros May 11th, 2006 4:13 am Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America! Anonymous May 11th, 2006 6:14 am Hey, how did you guess that we are out to get you? We run Gentoo Hardened Linux especially to foil the CIA. Apple subversively celibrate the heritic view that the British invented the computer so we are making progress - especially as OSX is based on open source code. We had to laugh at your leader’s outrage at the Spanish version of the ’star strangeled spanner’. It ain’t even the US national anthem. It’s actually the same tune as our national anthem without the “God save the Queen”. Of course this is a German tune. Stop pissing in the wind, the US empire is doomed. Johnny the don't use socks for protection Penguin May 11th, 2006 6:32 am Dear Shelly , Greetings from that unknwown part of the world where the average IQ is higher than 60 (and no shelly, IQ’s can’t be negative so you better check that test you’ve made but i’m sure jesus forgives you) aKa EUROPE ! :D First of all we hope you forgives for doing this comment on a linux box , but we had a bunch of errors while trying to launch IE on the ONLY windows machine in our college (damn marxist college !!). Secondly we regret to inform that our souls have already been sold to satan after downloading the latest kernel 2.6.17-rc3-mm1. For that, we hope you pray for us. Oh, and btw, can you give us some good advice on how to redeem ourselves ? Thirdly, and finally jesus surelly loves you now cuz i’m sure , as the rest of us are, he’s laughing his ass out after reading this article. We hope you keep up the good work. Best regards A College Students group of Shelly-Fans P.S - We hope we get replied cuz we also love attention :D wolkje May 11th, 2006 8:38 am This really was great to read :) I laughed the entire time reading the post and especially the comments! I do feel sad for you and have mercy on your unknowning and ignorant soul though. I really hope this was a joke but I have my doubts. Wolf May 11th, 2006 9:35 am What strikes me funnier then the main article is the constant analysis of the people behind the article. Is this is a spoof, is it real. But it matters not, since no matter what it is, they will not listen to what most people call reason. If it’s a spoof, why would they/he/she/it tell us? So, no matter how much we push or pull, we’ll never know the truth. If it’s truth, then the person(s) behind this site are too blinded to see, let alone see the truth. In short I can say this, don’t, just don’t give them more fuel to burn, ignore them, as you ignore the dust on the big filing cabinet. It’s there, it’s a nuisance, but it isn’t a direct danger. To the people behind this site, if it is for real, please be aware that only God is allowed to give judgement. The moment you start judging people, you take the place of God. And before you try to remove the splinter from someones eye to help him see better, remove the girder from your own eye. Pile May 11th, 2006 10:50 am I never saw a so stupid article, never �. Your mobile, if it is a Nokia, use Sambian an open source software based on Linux � Your webserver use Apache, MysQL, and � Linux. Missile of US Army also use Unix or Linux � More examples ? Manchild May 11th, 2006 11:03 am Just read this ‘article’. Man, that’s hilarious!! Best parody of a right-wing site I’ve ever seen. Oh, man, my sides are hurting. Well done. This should be in the Onion or something. silencer51 May 11th, 2006 11:25 am OMFG Please, for god’s sake, tell me this is a joke… This so-called “article” has been making the rounds on the net and I predict it will soon become the next “star wars kid”-type meme. It’s been a long time since I’ve read something this pathetic and idiotic. Cut-Me-Own-Throat Weasel May 11th, 2006 11:32 am remove the girder from your own eye.And stick it in your gob, retard. Tim May 11th, 2006 11:39 am Linux is not susceptable to viruses like Windows, hence the no “Built In” virus protection. Please present me a list of Internet backbone devices that utilize a embedded version of Windows for its ROM. No such thing, only Linux/Unix is embedded in these Internet Appliances. Your stupid host does resolve linhost*** something, I assume that stands for Windows Host?? Please. If republican stands for Ignorant, Fat, Bloated & Rich… You must fit the bill. Windows fits that description, and so doesn’t Bush. You obviously do not like Linux because it is a threat to your precious money, the only thing that matters to Fat Rich Republicans. Even if you have to KILL someone with good ideas, like yall might be planning to do to Mr. Torvalds, similar to what yall did to that Scientist that stabilized hydrogen fuel, he was a major threat to your money. Betcha Bush pulled the trigger on that one. Anonymous May 11th, 2006 1:58 pm Strange thing that people are so afraid of Linux as they are. Linux is only a evolution of Unix, witch Sun is still using. It is true that most Internet hosting servers are using Linux. It is also true that it is free. Microsoft on the other hand has made a major improment for making people able to choose anything other than Linux. Windows 2003 server had showen itself to be quite stable, but that on the other hand can not be said for Windows XP and previous. Linux is more stable, and a stronger operating system than windows. And Linux is NOT a computer program. It IS a computer operating system. Windows is the same. But to say that Linux is the same as stealing is just bull****. For what its worth; I’m using Microsoft products. Not because I want to, but because of the range of products that is compiled and build for it. And please stop writing about things you don’t have a clue about. If you still want to, then check your sources so that you post trustworthy articles. Wataru May 11th, 2006 2:19 pm I fully agree with you Tim, the only thing that matters for republican people is money. Don’t forget that their main representant has killed thousands people just for fuel. He is the most dangerous terrorist of our times. Only when you see how silly can be that people suddenly you understands why he is the president of USA. If this is not a joke, is just a proof of the sillyness of republican people represented in this blog. Best regards. Anonymous May 11th, 2006 3:47 pm When will americans start to realise that they wouldnt even excist if it wasnt for the europeans.. yes idiots.. the dutch and the english created ur country, and trust me, we feel sorry about that each day. Y do u ppl always think ur better at everything, know everything and can do everything? Ffs, ur country has been here for like 300 years maybe? And what have u ppl been doing since that, besides making war? Anonymous May 11th, 2006 4:00 pm Gee, your rant is really cute! But you really need to get over your “America Good - the rest of the world bad” tarzan routine. Be careful. All that beating your chest and you’re bound to hurt yourself! As for the fear mongering, it’s clear that you really don’t know what you’re talking about. For instance, linux isn’t a computer program! It’s an operating system. But then, you probably think a Segway is a car. Please, just take a suppository or some other weapon of ASS destruction. Anonymous May 11th, 2006 4:35 pm Oh yeah. Let’s just blame others for things we did. Who care’s how Al Queda pays for its activities. You seem to forget that YOUR GOVERNMENT trained those same Al Queda operatives during the Afghan-Soviet war. Or that your own president is in bed with the Saudi Royals. Hmm, I wonder if the anti-gay activist realize that their much beloved president likes giving it to “arabs” up the ass. You’re so blind to the actual facts of what you’re talking about, you couldn’t think yourself out of a wet paper bag. Anonymous May 11th, 2006 8:06 pm I’d just like to quote an excerpt from this post. If it is “pro-American” and uneducative, don’t read it. For one thing, I agree with many that it is, fascism and religion.. in fact much to the extent of anti-Eastern. Computers for americans are manufactured by Eastern labour. Plus, another stupidity from this patriotic ignorance author is that most of the technology of humanity has transcended pre-dawn the Western’s Rennaissance.. from Eastern technology, through Arabic translations and passed on to Europe. Get me if I’m wrong but I’m only pinning out the ridiculous fallacious points from such ideas as “Osama” uses American technology– to some this is even anti-Arab– I don’t condone Osama, but inciting pro-American under this context is very convulsive to anyone non-American using computers. If anyone wants to argue this, don’t, read it for yourself-Osama doesn’t need Linux, you can lauch a f**an nuclear missile with less basic code than an AppleII OS.. Just to mention how stupid this blog author is, the computer is NOT an American invention.. that’s a fact if you really know your stuff. A last little something, well as stupid as it is maybe Osama is probably using complete “Russian-made” manufactured parts with fake-branded logos of IBM? In iraq fake-brands are all over the garment industries from nike to reebok.. The russians, british,germans too had their own computers not under the title of ibm. Anonymous May 11th, 2006 8:26 pm A post I posted on to this blogger’s site is simply a hitback demonstration to point-out the author’s retardness about his knowledge span on just about everything he says outloud.. ” I’d just like to quote an excerpt from this post. If it is “pro-American” and uneducative, don’t read it. For one thing, I agree with many that it is, fascism and religion.. in fact much to the extent of anti-Eastern. Computers for americans are manufactured by Eastern labour. Plus, another stupidity from this patriotic ignorance author is that most of the technology of humanity has transcended pre-dawn the Western’s Rennaissance.. from Eastern technology, through Arabic translations and passed on to Europe. Get me if I’m wrong but I’m only pinning out the ridiculous fallacious points from such ideas as “Osama” uses American technology– to some this is even anti-Arab– I don’t condone Osama, but inciting pro-American under this context is very convulsive to anyone non-American using computers. If anyone wants to argue this, don’t, read it for yourself-Osama doesn’t need Linux, you can lauch a f**an nuclear missile with less basic code than an AppleII OS.. Just to mention how stupid this blog author is, the computer is NOT an American invention.. that’s a fact if you really know your stuff. A last little something, well as stupid as it is maybe Osama is probably using complete “Russian-made” manufactured parts with fake-branded logos of IBM? In iraq fake-brands are all over the garment industries from nike to reebok.. The russians, british,germans too had their own computers not under the title of ibm, but eventually of course as stupid as this author is never took into account that IBM actually made it easier to wipe out people for the Nazis.. if you’re talking about America-Pro Superiority power, of course.. ” I think the secret to combatting MS-endorsed ridiculous people is hit them back with the facts– know your history of computers * really *really well inside out and squash them like a bug.. even better such “racism” can be combatted too, “History of the Machine” and “History of Science and Technology” encyclopedic traces of human technological knowledge is non-biased on all levels , if you know your stuff, it’ll put shame on them..because it is possible to show how stupid the world is with these types of people by stating that “88″ is not even an American, European, Arabic, or Asian invention– it has been known to been written in India and carried into Arabic writings, way before Europeans started to get a push by the Pope in Medieval century to actually “adopt” Indian-Arabic numerals… Maybe all fascists should have that last statement spat on their blogs :), I’m actually mad, can’t belive people would go to that extreme of “American-pro” technology crap nonsense.. The truth is too hard to dwelve into, and idiots like this blogger are all 88′ers to me >:| Anonymous May 11th, 2006 8:26 pm for this article, i change my windows for linux Anonymous May 11th, 2006 9:26 pm Who uses Linux? Linux is used by millions of people world-wide who value freedom, open and honest exchange of information, and the sort of free markets that can only exist outside of the control of a corporate monopoly. Businesses such as IBM, Novell, and NEC use Linux internally and sell Linux services. Government agencies such as NASA and the U.S. Postal Service use Linux every day. Many state and city governments, such as those of Massachusetts, USA and Munich, Germany, are making the switch to Linux. The global Linux community is growing at an astounding rate! According to research firm IDC, Linux has already surpassed Mac as the #2 desktop operating system in the world. Anonymous May 11th, 2006 10:37 pm It really saddens me as a Republician, as an American and especially as a Christian when I read thoughts like this. Most computers are made and manufactured in Taiwan/China. If you’ve ever been to Silicon Valley and visited dotcoms you see tons of Indian developers there. To believe that computers soles belongs to America is about the most ignorant thing I’ve ever hear of. Microsoft is not an honorable company for you to defend like this. After several lawsuits in America and Europe, you speak as if Bill Gates were a saint. I believe that your opinions are more centered around some sort of nationalistic or racist pride then anything. Salvation and God’s Grace is for all the nations and all sinners. You sound like it’s only reserved for Republician Christian Americans. Your views don’t reflect the Good Lord’s command at the end of the book of Matthew, and you are giving Christians a bad name. Making it that much harder for the rest of us to actually reach out to others. But that’s just it, I don’t you care about others, I get the feeling that you only care for Republician American Christians. If this is the state of Christianity in American, then may God help us all. Anonymous May 11th, 2006 10:40 pm Will You be flying now? Published 1 May 2006 FAA manages air traffic with Linux The agency saved $15 million by migrating computers to the open-source operating system. The Federal Aviation Administration has saved $15 million by migrating computers that manage air traffic flow to Linux, according to an announcement issued last week. The upgrade is part of a broader service-oriented architecture initiative that will replace proprietary traffic management systems with applications using Java, Web services, open-source software and Oracle products. Sean Tierney May 11th, 2006 10:46 pm hey ShellyTheRepublicanHypocrite.com - are you aware your site is currently hosted on a linux webserver? http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.shelleytherepublican.com if you are going to make idiotic, uninformed statements, can you at least not be hypocritical and practice what you preach? sean Nico May 11th, 2006 11:55 pm http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.ShelleyTheRepublican.com Isn’t that like biting the hand that feeds? Anyway - these bloke have no idea how the economics of the IT industry work, or how technology (in general) applies to our day to day lives. IBM is an American company maybe, but look inside the box… All components were made in China, and most of the kit was assembled in Ireland. They also embraced Linux, and there are more mainframes shipping with Linux these days (despite the fact that Microsoft still has no solution on the mainframe architecture). A lot of times (and this is a good example) people show their lack of incite by the stupid remarks they make/publish/broadcast. But at least there are many with the knowledge to see through this mask. Have a good one! Anonymous May 12th, 2006 4:05 am Just one word to put it together > senile Anonymous May 12th, 2006 4:52 am So tell me, when is Bush chairing your next Klu Klux Klan meeting? Indil May 12th, 2006 6:06 am You must be crazy. Anonymous May 12th, 2006 6:25 am Linux is great because its free code. But I use Windows because Linux is not so “complete” and they make games for the Windows mostly. Windows have some problems about security and some bugs so it is not as good it could be. And there are no other familiar OS on PC than Windows (or some not so famous Linux). It is kind of “monopoly situation” on PC market. But sure I can always turn to Apple. Jorge May 12th, 2006 7:07 am Tristan, you are a very crazy one, very stupid, very ignorant, very very stupid, a big lier, and one piece of the real cancer of the world: The US Republican Goverment. Anonymous May 12th, 2006 8:03 am As a God fearing Christian, I am not worried about Linux being a communist tool. I am, however deeply concerned about information posted on this blog; namely that the creator of the first computer, Alan Turing, was a homosexual. Does the internet and computer technology have some sort of gay influence over its’ users? As the net is becoming more and more popular, we have also seen gays openly confess their twisted lifestyle in the media. Is this just a coincidence or is it the gay influence of computer technology? I am not sure and I will have to speak with my minister on this topic. But I an sure that in my house there will be no homosexual influence to corrupt me or my family! Anonymous May 12th, 2006 10:32 am I think Shelley is off her meds. Might I recommend some Haldol or Trilafon? Anonymous May 12th, 2006 10:39 am Computers were not invented by Americans. They were invented by a European: Mr. Zuse from Germany. So, everything good comes from Europe. Although the Americans need some 20 years to recognize that. :) Anonymous May 12th, 2006 11:42 am LIVE FREE or DIE: LINUX!!!!!!! You are the most ignorant bible-thumping knuckle-draging hircine neanderthal with a heartbeat. You digust me! Take your religious fanaticism and go pound sand. It is obvious that what you know about computers and computing could be scrawled on the head of an asprin with a crowbar. You need to get your head out of Bill Gates’ arse, and learn of what you speak. You are the sort that makes common sense conservatives look very bad. LIVE FREE or DIE: LINUX!!!!!!! Anonymous May 12th, 2006 12:01 pm Ignorance seems to develop to the major characteristic of US-americans. How stupid are people who are posting such crap and how stupid are people who are believing this :-( Perhaps USA should better declare war on ignorance not terror. This would solve all mankind problems. Linux is just a another alternative to Mircrosoft world domination, nothing else ! Sorry about that ;-) BTW: I am not chinese, not russian, not Osama bIn Laden ;-) Anonymous May 12th, 2006 1:00 pm Hahahahaha! What a joke! This is typical the typical ignorace you republican and many other americans got (not all of course, some amaricans are ok dudes :)) Anonymous May 12th, 2006 1:05 pm You know the amrican military use linux right? DoX May 12th, 2006 1:10 pm Two Words: Completely senseless Anonymous May 12th, 2006 1:38 pm I just read the posting about Linux … and have some things to clarify: 1) Linux is American. Made in USA by Americans. It basically is UNIX which was made some 30 or more years ago in the US. 2) It is ‘Open Source’. Which means if you release your own version of it, you have to also release the source code. So if you think there is any ’spy ware’ involved, you can have your own experts examin the code line by line. You can compile the code yourself to build the operating system, so there is nothing hidden there. 3) It was not originally designed as a ‘desk top user’ operating system … so don’t expect it to be fancy like windows XP. But because it is open source, lots of American companies are creating their own distributions that make it more pleasant as a user desktop operating system. I use XP Pro on my PC because it is way easier to use, but if I were running a server, I would only use a Unix/Linux operating system because it is more stable, faster, and secure. Linux Rul3z May 12th, 2006 3:41 pm I 0wn J00 l177l3 5tup1d br41nZ!!! AHAHAHAH 0 ide4 watH a C0mput3r d0!!! W1ndow5 15 D4 R34lly [4n[3R ahahahah Fuck1ng P34pl3!!! LINUX > Windows !!!! FR33 W0rld –> Fr33 S0ftw4r3 –> 0P3n S0urc3 !!!!!!! .RTFM. k�k� May 12th, 2006 4:34 pm Hi ! Your call has been listened all over the world ! And there was a single but powerfuly hilarous claim after that news ! I may tell you than, from France, how funny you have been seen ! Windows are some 90% of the personnal computer, but their use on company goes from 20% to 5% … Company do like reliability, low cost and well supported OS. Ever heard about NASA ? GM ? Pixar ? Disney ? IBM ? … They all use UNIX/AIX/SUN OS, except for their personnal computer. I hope you learn the way to reach the good side of the light, before you’ll get too far in the dark side of the hermetic company. K�k�. PS : Please, install on your computer something from the open-source product called Firefox, and tell me the difference with the Internet Explorer you are using. when using firefox press CTRL + T and later on use the extension capability. 1st : go google, search for firefox. 2nd : install 3th : open firefox 4th : go on your webmail 5th : press Ctrl + T (a new tab open) 6th : go search ‘Magdales’ on google 7th : you may now understand that you may open as much tab as you wish … 8th : go search ‘firefox extension tutorial’ on google. 9th : Read documentation of the power of firefox … 10th : think of all the difference between IE 7.0 and firefox 1.5 Anonymous May 12th, 2006 5:52 pm Ack noes!!! 55.2543 % of people no understand saracastic comments! Elitest Linux gigialoop Layer 8 RouterSwitch! Jo�o Milheiri� May 12th, 2006 7:30 pm omg u really can’t be that stupid dude, this is a fake blog right? u really think linux is bad? if it weren’t for linux u would have like 0 servers? and btw, u think bush is right next to god? omg!! u are the reason everyone hates america, cause u guys are just stupid people. i don’t get it, how can it be, so many dumb people on the same country. Jo�o, Proud European, Proud Portuguese Anonymous May 12th, 2006 8:39 pm You are all idiots. Linux has no built in antispyware or antivirus because linux is not vuln to viri and spyware like winblows is. Only need for such software on linux is for mail servers. Btw, I work at zone-h.org and I will tell you that a windows server is 20 times more likely to be hacked than a linux server, 70% of all servers on the internet use linux. the rest use other unix type a small percentage windows. Most corporate enterpise uses linux. Linux is commie eh? Then why does our goverment use it for security senseitive applications. The NSA even has a linux module called SeLinux www.nsa.gov/selinux Read it and weep idiots Anonymous May 12th, 2006 8:52 pm I’ll burn your embassy! We will keep pushing forward Linux untill every computer in the world is using it, and the ze revolution will start. Everytime you use a service on a Linux-host the great socialist OSS-empire grows while your silly American moral rights and freedom shrinks. Anonymous May 12th, 2006 9:02 pm To those who say that Linux is a cancer, i just want to say that you guys are just complet ignorants and stupid idiots, things like this coul�d only have come from an american, you stupid morons LOL DontEatAnAnimal May 13th, 2006 1:43 am Your Guys are complete fools saying that Linux is “unstable” and “Completly incompatable with windows” You all need to do your research. Linux is a derivative off of Unix. Unix was made in AMERICA!! WOW!! who would of thought… And god forbid there is something that is better then microsoft and its free. Holy sh*t republicans cant have that! No no no no no… You people just make me laugh. Saying “Well Linux doesn’t have a virus protecting like norton or Mcafee!” No kidding! Linux doesn’t run .exe files and nore are they affected by Spyware or Viruses. There are VERY FEW viruses that affect Linux compared to Microsoft. I hate to burst all of your corporate bullsh*t bubbles but yes some of the people on here are right when they say “Most of the internet is ran on either Linux or Unix”. And also the United States Government uses Unix and Linux not Microsuck. So who are the blind jack@sses. Oh go figure… THE CORPORATE REPUBLICAN. Big suprise!! jdm May 13th, 2006 2:31 am This has to be some of the most eneducated dribble I have ever read in my whole life. ‘Linux’, is what is called an open source Operating System. It is *free* so that the “Open Source” comminity is *free* to contribute to it. I believe, that when you live in a so called *free* society, more *free* stuff like this should be embraced. If we call can’t work together to build something, then we have no hope in this world, and I say it is beyond sad, and quite ignorant of someone to flat out write this. I can tell you this, this article is unfactual, and for anyone to post it, only feeds into ignorance. I hope one day you can go back and read this and realize how you have wronged a lot of perfect good ol’ Red Blooded Americans by posting such swill… Anonymous May 13th, 2006 6:18 am If this article is serious, then you need some serious help. Linux is written by many programmers from all over the world. Finland, China, Norway, Mexico, Canada, USA. By the way, which OS do you trust? The one with a top-secret source code, or the one you can inspect line-by-line whenever you want? Nice troll, though. Anonymous May 13th, 2006 7:06 am someone know SeLinux ? the NSA hardened kernel features ? NO ? How could an author write an article without collecting some evidences ? P.S : sorry for my english ! P.P.S : Microsoft is the IT terrorist Ivan Susanin May 13th, 2006 9:22 am Hello, my comrades! I’m here representing the leading Russian Hacker group, the Lenin Computer Security Investigation Group, a sub-devision of the Red Army Information Defence Forces. Here in Moscow we are holding a meeting with a number of quite famous persons, including Osama Bin Laden, our brother-in-arms, and (surprise-surprise) Bill Gates, our fixed-post spy in USA since 1985, Red Army major, and a permament member of the International Communist Party. Our initial plan was to take over the US with comrad Gates help, moving all the govermental and military computers to his Windows opeating system, with backdoors open to us. We planned the massive intrusion to star in Q3 2008, but now we see the Linux operating system agressively pressing on windows positions, dislodgeing it from govermental and military sites. So we have no more time to spend, and the attack is planed on the next monday. We have control over a number of your nuclear missles, most of your fighters and battleships, so you have no chance to repel this attack. PS: You really have no chance, because we have kidnapped Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux, and the only man able to help you. That’s the only reason I’m telling you all this things, you can’t do anything. PS2: Please excuse my english, and be ready to learn Russian in a couple of months, at least those of you who will survive. ?? ??????????? ??????? ??????????? ???????????????? ?????????! Anonymous May 13th, 2006 1:07 pm i saw this link in a forum , more specifically , the lol thread of the forum , where we put funny stuff. i really have to agree with the person that posted that link there. because your ignorance is hillarious. i am not going to say anything about the title where you say that linux is a european threat which is totally absurd. i dont know what you are trying to do. maybe you just crave attention and you write all these things because you like to provoke people from other nations to dislike you , because thats only what you get. i think that the people who posted here before me explain things clear enough so i dont need to expand, because if this aint a joke i understand that you wrote this just so you can get attention. if that really IS the case , maybe you should go and get proffesional help. btw , i AM using windows , although i would prefer not to , but i cant , because most games i play when i am on the pc are available only with windows. and guess what is the OS availability in games that microsoft produces. hmmmmmm i wonder why they are only compatible with windows….. Anonymous May 13th, 2006 10:03 pm Idiocy at it’s finest. Anonymous May 14th, 2006 2:15 am Oh, Tristan. You’re so cute when you’re delusional. Thankyou for lighting up a dreary autumn afternoon with your unrivalled humour. Anonymous May 14th, 2006 4:17 am Having worked at Microsoft for the past 10 years, I often hesitate to join the conversations such as these as I sometimes feel like a mouse entering a room full of cats, but I’d like to say that I respect the balance of comments here both for Linux and Microsoft. And, although I don’t have any “secret” insight about the future, I do expect that we’ll see some multi-platform co-existance where both sides of your arguments will prevail and, as you can see, already the mixing of code-based is increasingly common. It is interesting to me how arguments about Linux and Windows often turn to politics and religion. I hope to learn more about your opinions here and would appreciate any personal name-calling to a minimum. :-) I would like to say that as I worked in Microsoft PR, much of the way the media portrays Microsoft is simply untrue and the motivations of both Bill and the company in general are far from evil — it is sad that much of society believes that to be true. I see from this string that at least some of you are open to the possibility that Microsoft is indeed a responsible, well-meaning company. I can say from 10 years here that it is. Keep the dialog going, I am intrigued… (but the politics and religion is getting in the way of the good dialog.. ;-) mr Bjoern May 14th, 2006 7:48 am Want to know something? I hate americans like you! Can you tell me how you know that Bin Laden uses linux on his laptop? No, you cant! cos you are to stupid to know anything about it! Anyway, it’s kinda funny that you can write down something like that, americans does not “own” the world. In fact, they don’t own anything. Ok, you have 52states, some atomic boms and an huge army in Iraq. Do you own Iraq? No, you don’t! If you own so much can you send FBI or CIA to catch me. Oh, i forgot, you can’t, cos you don’t know where i live. So now, destroy the world so you can kill me to! One more thing, Microsoft is a big company where they make computer software, Linux is a free open source Operating System, if you don’t like, then don’t like it. But you can’t change the world man. It’s just imposible. Good luck on changing the world to an American look alike. Eddie May 14th, 2006 8:41 am Hahhaha you’re such an idiot :) long live open source software! Anonymous May 14th, 2006 8:53 am I like how some people responded to this joke with jokes of their own, and how people thought the people that posted their jokes were serious XD. You guys who think ANY of this is serious are just a bunch of fucking idiots. you may get off the internet now. Anonymous May 14th, 2006 11:59 am Tristan - u dont know what are u talking about. Ppl like u are reason why other states dont like america. Ppl like u are reason why there are terrorist attacks against america. Anonymous May 14th, 2006 3:49 pm Shelley, you are the reason I feel pity for America.. they have to cope with people like you and bush.. You don’t know one thing!!! You think you know everything, your extremely cocky and act like your right and everyone else is wrong.. BLOGGER IS HOSTED ON LINUX AND SO IS NEARLY EVERY OTHER POPULAR SITE. WHY? Because Linux boxes are far superior to anything made by Microsoft regarding servers!!!! Anonymous May 14th, 2006 3:57 pm this was the stupidest blog-post I’ve ever read. cheers. Anonymous May 14th, 2006 4:08 pm nice joke. I’ll transalte it and paste on my blog www.tecniart.net Anonymous May 14th, 2006 4:12 pm If this is real, God Help you all in the USA. Anonymous May 14th, 2006 5:06 pm Ok, clearly all of you claiming to be upstanding right-wing God fearing individuals are full of crap. I myself am a republican, registered as such and everything. However, your complete disregard for anything even remotely close to fearing God orsupporting your claims with real sources is appalling. And sometimes I wonder why no one believes in God or the republican party. Just so you know what I’m taling about, go and read your Bible a bit. You’d quickly find that in the new testament, which is the covenant you’re under if you’re a christian, you have 2 main rules. Love your neighbor as yourself and love God with all your heart. Clearly you are doing neither, because I doubt you would be such ignorant jerks to yourself. Alos, to clear up any misconceptions about what love is, and the kind of love we’re supposed to show to others, go read 1 Cor. 13. And don’t take it as being symbolic, take it as being the honest truth. And, just so you know, most universities must be communist, since anywhere that teaches a CISCO class will have many routers that run on LINUX. Just like the internet. SO sorry, you’re wrong. Go back to school and try to learn something. Adrian May 14th, 2006 11:43 pm Biggest laugh all day. Thank you. God save the Queen. Anonymous May 15th, 2006 12:57 am ROTFL. Hilarious. Congratulations on a brilliant spoof site. I couldn’t stop laughing. The comments, in particular, have some works of genius among them. Fred Anonymous May 15th, 2006 2:12 am shelly you’re more ignorant that a newborn and you should be ashamed of yourself. what does the first ammendment say about freedom? to write something that ignorant about linux and windows you obviously have to clue what you are doing and the rest of your blogs? jesus american? how f*cking stupid can you be to write something that awful? obviously we can teach the dangers of america all over europe thanks to your blog, never vote for republicans that have iq less than 80. i really have to show you this webpage http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/youare.php Ermhs May 15th, 2006 4:53 am OMFG people like him is realy exist? i dont believe that we are here and talk aboyt a product and God. u are a true GODLESS. OMFG, GOD BLESS MICROSOFT? i cant believe that u open-source software and Osama? u have fuse everythink in your head. thats the way u guys select politicians? I CANT BELIEVE THAT AT 2006 PEOPLE ARE THINK LIKE THAT guys u have to remove to midle-age. thats where u belong. i feel sad that people like u can find folowers in USA. GET A LIFE Anonymous May 15th, 2006 7:07 am I don’t know whether I should laugh or cry. I know now for sure that some of you are well represented by your president - until now I thought he was the biggest moron of your country, you prooved myself wrong. When is your next crucifing ceremony ? Are you going to mutilate yourself in the name of Microsoft ? I don’t pray for you, I think at some extent the stupidity isn’t possible to be cured. Anonymous May 15th, 2006 7:18 am Tristan you’re a complete idiot! Probably American too. Anonymous May 15th, 2006 7:51 am omg This qualyfies as the most stupid blog, I’ve ever read: That people can believe anything like that is really very sad indeed! If you weren’t so pathetic, your little speach would angry me. Btw: How would you know, which operating system is used by Osama? And why would he use it to rip DVDs? Don’t you think, that he’s occupied enough with planning terror and hiding out? I’m actually using LINUX at work at my university since it’s far more stable and reliable than any Microsoft product out there. And I’m using Windows XP to rip DVDs+games+music :) I think that software piracy is even more common on Windows-based systems, since all the kids out there can’t figure out how to use LINUX… OMG: it really scares me, that people can be so blind and ignorant. Cheers Anonymous May 15th, 2006 8:47 am Thanks for the laugh. Ironic or not, this post made my day! A French commie. Anonymous May 15th, 2006 9:26 am Shelley and Tristan, Thank you so much for exposing this conspiracy by the Godless Communists to take over the United States of America! I note that George W. Bush spends a fair amount of time visiting and dealing with countries dominated by the Godless. Could he be part of the Conspiracy? Bush also has ties to the NSA, and they use this horrible Linux thing. So George W. Bush must himself be a Godless Communist with a Red, Pinko, Left-wing heart! Oh, the horror! The Right-wing Conservative Christians in the United States of Amurrica being led by the nose down the garden path by a Communist Mole! We must loudly proclaim this from the rooftops! Bush is a Communist! My sources also tell me that Bill Gates has made a number of secret visits to Hugo Chavez. Perhaps they are planning together to take over the United States? Or are they simply plotting to ruin our economy by increasing oil prices and reducing our productivity with viruses and spyware? I also have it on good information that both Shelley and Tristan are members of Comintern. Perhaps they are writing these articles filled with foolish lies and errors in order to make the True Conservative Christian Republicans look bad? Tristan and Shelley, you should be ashamed of yourselves! But I will pray that you be forgiven and that you immortal souls not be condemned forever to fire and brimstone. Everyone, please take a minute out of your busy days to bow your head and pray for Shelley and Tristan to repent and cease their wickedness. They’re poor white crackers and know not what they do. Anonymous May 15th, 2006 9:39 am This was very interesting, but here is another Communist plot that is far more insidious. The KGB is trying to destroy good old American Rock ‘n Roll! http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/09/business/cheat.php Anonymous May 15th, 2006 11:08 am OK, i read it and i cant belive it, nobody knows that MS uses (against the law) sources from Linux?, i mean with out the GLP and GNU licens that are legal , like de CopyRights? Thanks to good i dont live in US , its inposible to grow healty with that kind of people…. LOL! Anonymous May 15th, 2006 12:55 pm linux rules !!!! chinese hackers ! mouahahahhahaha Anonymous May 15th, 2006 1:27 pm this is the biggest load of bollocks ive ever seen. you are talking out of your ass. america always seems to save the day or seems to spawn eveything that is good eh? bullshit. you bunch of lazy, thick mother fuckers. oh and of course you won the war all by yourselves. these days you just start them. fucking clowns. i know you wont approve this as you are so lame. Anonymous May 15th, 2006 1:47 pm never seen such a stupid article before. in my hole life!!! Anonymous May 15th, 2006 2:30 pm yeah i share shelley’s opinion about microsoft. but, i have some more suggestions. my list: 1. let us establish a new religion with bush as our new god 2. water, beer, lemonade … should be banned. everybody has to drink coke because it’s tasty, healthy and makes you become more american 3. hamburgers should be the only food; they are healthy, tasty, the meat comes from american farms; it’s no invention made by communists => so you don’t have to fear to become a communist by eating it (but don’t eat french fries! they come from france and france is a communist country. therefore, the chance to become a communist after eating french fries is more than 100%!!!) 4. every u.s. citizen should buy weapons of mass destruction(the best are nuclear bombs)to defend themself against the communist; the tons of rifles the americans already have don’t help against communist people, because they have the “communist energy” that make them stronger than everybody else! 5. bush should annex the whole world and take all the resources for the american economy 6. all non-american businesses should be banned out of the usa 7. everybody who owns an non-american item should be punished … p.s. i fear to have a bit of communism in me. i think i got it by talking with an european. i am sorry. i really didn’t know that he is european. he pretended to be american!!! is there any medicine against it. i have looked for a non-american pharmaceutical company which provides something like that, but i didn’t find anything. please help me. Anonymous May 15th, 2006 4:15 pm You need to post refferences to factual information regarding the invalidity of the os linux operating system. Reading your comments proved it is very subjective and exactly where is the refferenced material which lead you to your belief of it being something which will destroy the “Great America?” I think the great corporations will take the money of millions of babies if we do not stand at all. It is “we the people” and not “we the corporation.” Cellphone is a good example of locked media. If you can produce your own sound on a file, why is it you cannot load it on your phone? Coorporations or phone companies like verizon or cingular forces one to buy ringtones at 3 dollars a pop. Same with the operating systems. Once you get locked-in, it becomes “we the coorporation” and forces people to rent the software making all your files you typed actually their property. all your word files you will not own unless you pay them rent for you to see the file. This is exactly where we are heading and open source, linux is a way for me to get control of the files i typed without paying rent. As a matter of fact, i converted all my word documents over to rtf files. seb13 May 15th, 2006 4:18 pm Your article is so stupid.They are only lies, but where can you go looking for that?It is a joke. Have you ever seen a computer with Linux? I think that not. Chinese hackers, marxist ideology, Osama Bin Laden, illegal programs like Linux … But you’re a little bit crazy. Anonymous May 15th, 2006 4:23 pm OH MY GOD…I think i am DUMB STRUCK by this damned article…How F*ckin stupid are you? lmfao..Linux is the shit…all you dumbFX out there who think it’s copyright bullshit i laugh at you….maybe if you were sophisticated enough to even use command line interface instead of a mouse and clickin shit you’d see…I cannot stress how fkn stupid i think you are lmfao….JESUS you know posting something like this on the internet will get your fuckin box destroyed lol…you fuckin ignorant noob ass lame brittish mother fucker…god i hope you get hacked up the ass for this one ;) Best regards Fucker BTW. it’s gonna say annonymous so im tellin you who i am 1337 Viruz (UnikeViruz) P.S. I Seriously hope you get hacked lol Anonymous May 15th, 2006 5:50 pm Hahahaha Isnt there some other serious issues in the world?? But still fun to read all these nonsense about linux… I think shelley have smoked a realy fat joint of his own ten days brown underpants, so all of u must have him excused :p But a good laugt keeps life longer:) Davitux May 15th, 2006 6:13 pm WTF?! Are you a sucker?? ahahahaha… Well… You’re an idiot… Linux is a Operating System made by terrorist?? ahahahahaha… Linux not is an Operating System… Linux is the Kernel… this is teh first point. In the second place… this article is so idiot as you… You cannot say that Windows are an operating system, if he is one of greater the virus of the world!!. It has terrible distribution of memory, many holes in where the virus until salutes to you and more and more and more of bad things. The Operating systems that use the Linux kernel to not affect them. You speak without cause knowledge. So you do not write more stupids articles, speak about your life… I don’t know, but of Computers, Operating Systems… NO!. Ah! and another thing� Blogger runs on Apache, who ironic xDDD LONG LIVE TO LINUX!! Anonymous May 15th, 2006 11:21 pm All my computer components to build another computer arrived today via UPS. None of the parts were made in America. So to keep things in a Global prospectus, I will install GNU/LINUX KERNEL and EdUbuntu software. Its less costly to build-your-own to your personal specs or that of the customer than it is to buy a boxed system with limits…they make me laugh with that “shared memory” feature and stylish case. IVERY Anonymous May 15th, 2006 11:59 pm Shelley and Tristan, you guys rock! You know that Jesus used Windows XP on his laptop, cos he was so cool, and the son of God, and all. The Romans only used Linux — DID YOU KNOW that LINUX is 666 in Roman numerals??!? What more proof do you need?? Glory be to Bush - without him we’re nothing! Anonymous May 16th, 2006 3:18 am Shelley, you are a complete and total lunatic. That is all. Anonymous May 16th, 2006 3:20 am You are really very funny! Did you really understand what was Linux? Thanks for these very good moments… Anonymous May 16th, 2006 3:41 am Do you believe that your NSA would use Linux if it wasn’t secure and stable. Take a look here : Security-Enhanced Linux Anonymous May 16th, 2006 3:56 am This is the biggest crap i have ever read.For sure windows is for the ignorant. Anonymous May 16th, 2006 6:04 am Oh dear. Ignorance is bliss. First stored program digital computer was designed and built at the University of Manchester - that is Manchester, England. Linux is a derivative of the Unix operating system which was originally developed at Bell labs in the USA. Anonymous May 16th, 2006 6:52 am Well Done Tristian and Shelley, I assume neither of you is serious in what your saying and your just stoking up a good firestorm. If you are serious you are everything that is how an American is seen by the world.. Arrogant, bullish, and above all pr-supposing your brilliance.. You truly are either a great bunch .. or simply spastics with no cerebral cortex to mention. Anonymous May 16th, 2006 7:22 am A great post. It possible to understand perfectly the American Way of life. Go America ! dans peu de temps vous serez un pays en ruine. Anonymous May 16th, 2006 7:30 am Shelly, you are the first person, that I’ve never met before, but that I immidiatly need to blame as the dumbest person that I never want to meet ever! Your thoughts are even more cruel than the shit some people squeeze out of their mouth in the deeps of Pakistan. You are the exact opposite of what the united states are build on! Greets from a g.i. who’s doing A BIT more for our country than just hangin in front of a computer and type shit into it, just because you only feel save behind your monitor. If you feel so brave, then get your ass up to the next military recruiter and prove it! Anonymous May 16th, 2006 8:46 am The arrogance of Americans like you is the reason that people hate you all over the world. Nations and cultures which thought they are better then others have always been a big thread to the world. The way you praise that your nation is superior to others remainds me very much on how the Germans praised themself 70 years ago, and how Bin Laden praises now that his culture is superior to yours. We all know how it ended. As Bin Laden you claim to have God on your side, and as him you refuse to see what is the reality in this world and your speech is full of lies, and as with him, your empathy to other cultures and nations is zero. You think you have to solutions for the problems of this world, instead you are the problem! Anonymous May 16th, 2006 9:45 am Actually it should be noted that George W has even been seen carrying a Sharp Zaurus. Which is a PDA that just happens to be running… you guessed it Linux :) Maybe it’s because his security minded folks actually get to audit all the code that runs on that device unlike some of the closed source alternatives. Anonymous May 16th, 2006 10:02 am haha shelley - nice one… i was sitting here at work bored, and someone emailed me a link to your article about linux. i haven’t laughed so much for ages. thank you for the time you have put into this article. i always used to think that American’s were devoid of seeing the humour in taking the piss out of themselves; you have proved me wrong! I’m not going to point out the inaccuracies in your text, as I realise that they (like Ali G) are just taking the piss for our amusement. Maybe you can do an article about religion and how the USA, whilst being one of the most technologically advanced places in the world, still suffers the same religeous fervour (fervor? lol) as the Muslim states of the East. Or, maybe you can write an article that attempts (hilariously unsuccessfully as is your wont) to justify why the American military is suppressing free energy technology. Thanks for the work you do, Shelley. It’s always worth a laugh to read it. Just a note to the irate posters in this thread:- Remember, the stuff that Shelley writes is just comedy. Please don’t take it so seriously. After all, no-one is really stupid enough to believe the stuff that Shelley writes, are they? Oh, one last thing - with regard to the American GI who thinks they are doing good for their country… there is an incredibly thin line between bravery and stupidity… it takes more courage to see than line and avoid crossing it, than it does to follow orders blindly. Long live Shelley and her sense of humour (humor? lol). Anonymous May 16th, 2006 10:14 am “And guess what software Osama Bin Laden uses on his laptop?” How do you know? Have you been and visit him resently? “…illegal programs like Linux.” No it’s not. And by the way Linux is a open source program, anyone can modifie it as they wish. Get some education then you are wellcome back to write a new articla Hubertus May 16th, 2006 1:03 pm Dear Sir, my name is Hubertus and I am writing from Europe. In case you are a comedian, then ignore my statement, but I think, you mean what you are writing. So: have you ever realized, your blog is hosted on a Server running on Linux? Kind regards Hubertus Anonymous May 16th, 2006 1:25 pm Oh, God…. Anonymous May 16th, 2006 1:26 pm But ? Yes, Yes, that’s it : This is the 666th comment, arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!! Paul May 16th, 2006 5:44 pm People like you, Shelley and Tristan, are the reason the rest of the world is so anti-American! And beyond that, you are just plain stupid. Linux is another branch of the Unix Ooperating System family. It was indeed started in Finland, by Linus Torvalds (hence the name Linux), but not to circumvent copyrights and patents. Linus created his own OS, based on Minix, out of interest, for fun. Linux is an incredibly mature product, as it is an Open Source project, where a community continuously updates the software to fix bugs and release new version with new features. Bugs are often fixed within a matter of hours (instead of weeks with Microsoft) because of this community system. The OS itself is free, although some companies, such as SuSE, Red Hat and Mandriva, offer support at a cost. Many universities (worldwide!) use Linux because Unix systems are the basis for most supercomputers, and universities have been one of the main users of supercomputers for decades. Linux is not “copied for free”. Well, it is, but it’s not illegal. It’s widely available for download for free, so copying your CDs you downloaded to give to another person is certainly not illegal - merely saving their bandwidth. Many ’services’ such as TV stations, ferries, military infrastructure, etc, run on Linux, or other ‘custom-built’ flavours of Unix. They have done for years, and will do for years, because Unix is a proven, stable platform. Of course Steve Balmer is going to be worried about Linux’s growing market share - Microsoft after all do have a market monopoly on desktop PCs, and so any operating system which is competing for this market could be a potential problem for Microsoft. Linux is generally considered more stable and secure than Windows systems. Linux has more than a 75% share of the webserver market (indeed, this website *is* run on Linux). Windows XP does not have a built-in anti virus scanner, or a built-in firewall, or built-in anti-spyware. Microsoft do now provide these three services, but the firewall is very basic, the antivirus has to be paid for, and the anti-spyware is still in beta (as is the antivirus). How the fuck do you know what operating system Osama Bin Laden uses on his laptop? I doubt he’s made that information publicly available, and as US ‘intelligence’ has been unable to find him since September 11th (11/9), I doubt they’ve found his laptop either. Linux was not designed to conterfeit DVDs, or circumvent other Digital copyright laws. It’s true that software is available for Linux to do these things, but it’s just as available for Windows systems. There is no ‘built-in’ software for doing these things. Even though Linux is ‘free’, it still has to obey the law!! Of course Microsoft have prepared information on how to “help computer users get away from this menace [Linux]” - Microsoft are in direct competition with the Linux operating system! It is true that if you see someone using Linux, it’s unlikely that they have paid for that software. But that’s not because they have stolen it; it’s because it doesn’t cost anything! If you report them to the Business Software Alliance, you will get a rather frustrated and disinterested person on the other end of the phone line! I can’t actually believe you are this stupid. I myself am not a Linux ‘convert’ or anything. I use Linux because I realise it has it’s place - mainly in the server environment. I think that Windows XP is a great operating system, but that Linux is also good for some tasks. A number of the ‘hacking’ tools you talk about that exist for Linux are actually useful tools if you are a network/sysadmin (such as myself) - it is often useful to have a network scanner (such as nMap). However, as with every good invention, there is always somebody willing to exploit it for the worse. Linux is often used on the web as webservers and FTP servers because it is easy to secure, using it’s built-in firewall, it can be ‘hardened’ to help prevent attack against hackers, and it’s easy to configure. I really hope that Tristan and Shelly are just joking around with this. Unforuntunately, despite the fact that Windows is a great desktop operating system, it’s not the best server operating sytem for a web environment. It still has a long way to go with regards to security. And frankly, fuck you Tristan and Shelley. People like you just really piss me off. Wouter Verhelst May 16th, 2006 6:18 pm Hah. This blog post is, by far, the most crazy, funny, and absolutely humourous blog post that I’ve ever seen. I’ve never seen so many things that were factually incorrect in one post. Really. First, I’m European, and yes, I’m a Linux user and developer. But no, I don’t “hate” Microsoft, nor am I jealous about Windows being an American product. The only emotion that I feel about Windows is “pity”. I pity you, for having to keep up with that POS. Second, many, many developers of Linux and Linux-related software are American. Linus Torvalds, who originally wrote the Linux kernel, is indeed Finnish, but now lives and works in the US. Richard M. Stallman, founder of the GNU project that is a very important base of every Linux-based system, is American; he used to work at MIT and still lives in Boston, MA. MIT, BTW, is also where the X Window System originated, which is the graphical subsystem of any Linux- or Unix-based system. And as many have pointed out, UNIX was invented by two programmers working for AT&T with too much time on their hands. Linux can safely be called an American product, much more so than your IBM laptop which was assembled from parts that were manufactured all over the globe. Finally, let me tell you that the BSA has absolutely zilch legal authority. They can ask you whether you would allow them to check your computers, but if you say “no”, then it’s “no”. Additionally, Linux can be acquired free of charge; but it is absolutely not illegal to do so. Please, next time check your facts. You’ll look less like an idiot if you do so. Russ May 16th, 2006 6:29 pm Dear god, the inability for some people to detect humor. Do you think its an accident that the writer mentioned IBM? or SCO? All I gotta say, is dumb dumb dumb. Anonymous May 16th, 2006 7:07 pm I used Linux once. It gave me food poisoning. Charly May 16th, 2006 7:58 pm It’s amazing to see what ignorace can do to people. Linux isn’t just better than microsoft, it represents the spirit of freedom in the informatic world. Micro$oft loves making money selling their fearly easy, but amazingly innestable OS that Windows Is. The most laughable part is that The First Windows that MS sold that they actually thought was complete was the Windows XP. And people still think they are great OS. Linux is capable of so much more. Then again, this is proof that Linux is just for smart people :P … Osama Bin Laden using Linux? The thing i hate the most when someone tries to lie about something is when they invent this lies that just seem to obvious. it’s almost insulting. Anonymous May 16th, 2006 8:40 pm So i dont even know where to start, I am an american, i live in a “red” state, i am in the united states army. and i am not an ignorant loon. A microsoft official said linux was a cancer? big supprise there its micro$ofts competition! In case you were wondering the Military does use Linux and the internet is made up of more Linux servers than Microsoft Servers here is one of the many examples http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/2006/02/us-army-purchases-5-linux-supercomputers-for-ti06-upgrades/index.php cedric you are so simple, just because you couldnt use an operating system doesnt make it bad (infact i would argue that makes it good you really have no buisiness online) I wont even mention that Linux is a derivation of Unix and that it was writen in the united states and is still activly used. And lets talk about Osama i dont know if he uses linux or not, but what i do know is that he breaths air! thats right breathing air supports terrorism!!!! if you dont like terrorism stop breathing! to think that something is bad cus someone bad uses it is so stupid i cant even describe it. but i know that i have seen osama with a rifle before so i am not gonna use my service weapon anymore because terrorist use them. (remember i am a us soldier) also to say that if you see linux on a computer you should report it because it may not have been paid for. I have news for you I run linux on my servers and i didnt pay for it….do you know why its free or more accuratly open sorce. so everyone should report me. I am happy you think that computers are built in america, you probably think cars are too You are an idiot, and everyone who agrees with you is an idiot. i am happy to talk further about this come visit my evil terrorist website www.xmission.com/~sag3 Anonymous May 16th, 2006 10:12 pm I’m late to this party, but I see this post as one of 2 things. Either “Tristan” is a VERY clever hoaxster (and I DO hope so), or else, after reading the link on the article, he’s the (former?) city manager of Tuttle, OK, who rather publically made a fool of himself and was roundly and rightfully ridiculed for harassing the CentOS (Linux) development team with threats of legal action. As I said…I sure hope ‘Tristan’ is reading all this and laughing, because if the other alternative is true, then that’s one more sad, bitter man in the world. And we ALL know what sad, bitter men can get up to given too much time - ask Tim McVeigh, Ted Kaczynski(sp?), or Eric Rudolph…. Other than that…one HELL of a laugh. This is all from a patriotic (tried to go to the US Military Academy out of high school, was turned down), fiscally conservative (used to vote Republican ’til the social policy became more important than fiscal), America-loving (but not excessively ethnocentric, I do try to remember we’re only a small fraction of the world), Texas born and raised computer geek who works with Windows and Linux IN THE SAME BUILDING every day. Osiris May 16th, 2006 10:27 pm Ok, where do I start? Shelley and Tristan, I will assume it is not a satire due to the context of the website. Just in case, if it is a joke, it was the worstly oriented one I’ve ever read. After some conderable time on your speech and many, many time of response-reading, I must say something, here it goes: a. Congratulations for writting an excelent sample of formal falacies, but yours has the record of more incoherent ideas in less space. b. As a computer scientist and academic, your “article” has as many provable ideas as saying that flies come out of garbage. My day-to-day work is to develop, test and generate scientific computing infrastructure. Real computing is done with real operating systems, and Windows is just an approximation in terms of performance and stability. Not even entering the realms of liberty, in which the model of science establishes that knowledge is free distribution of ideas. If Newton had patented calculus, if only Watson&Crick had patented the DNA double-helix structure we would be living in something worse than the Middle Age. c. I’m from Central America, and you should be aware that Linux in non-developed countries is the unique option for a steady education system in computer science. We just can’t afford the prices Micro$oft settles, and our economy has a long history in terms of eternal loans and infinite (bun undoubtedly unexpected) debts that US poses over our countries. I fully respect US americans, in fact some of the most brilliant people I know are citizens of this grand country. Your attitude throws to oblivion what people like A. G. Bell, T. A. Edison, G. Washington, R. Feynmann (a noble prize in physics), J. Nash (nobel prize in economics) and many, many more have achieved in terms of prestige and recongnisement, and more important, intellectual respect. USA is the strongest country at the present time in the world, but also us from anywhere in the whole globe are here in history too. We deserve respect and comprenhension, not unjustified wars and pressure from your economic entities, not the arbitrary actions of your governments in our political systems to make them more “safe”, not your blatant offense to our intellects which are not as limited as you think when you state that “Like most things that are worth owning, Computers are an American invention”. Remember that you are also citizen of the world. That beyond USA there’s people whose intentions are not to harm you or your beloved ones, that are chistians, orthodox, buddhist and lots more and all of us share one common thing: humanity. By the way, I’m a linux user, anarchist, atheist, and scientist. I respect your beliefs, but reading your Bible in your Windows PC makes you religious, but not chistian in the deep meaning of the word. Thanks and please, think. Anonymous May 16th, 2006 11:51 pm Shelby, read this article and tell me what you think. It’s titled “Microsoft to host linux virtually”. It’s published by cnet, which is trusted source for computer news. http://news.com.com/Microsoft+to+host+Linux+virtually/2100-7346_3-6056683.html -don Anonymous May 17th, 2006 12:02 am Thanks to shelly.. for such an humourous article.. didnt even know that just creative fictitious and fraud article was ever written. Well Tristan..u do have some time left..before u report to an asylum.. take care Anonymous May 17th, 2006 2:29 am Comment dit-on “rire jaune” en am�ricain ? What is the american expression that means your laugh is polluted with fear ? When I read such things, that begins as “FOR GOD, FREEDOM AND GEORGE W. BUSH - ONE NATION UNDER GOD : : U - S - A : (love it or leave it!)” and such a sum of pathetic but dangerous thoughs… These guys have the greatest army, the control of the financial streams, and they (at least the most naives or stupid ones, that means a LOT of americans who are fed up with TV propaganda) are convinced of their right. Silly fanatics ! Don’t touch MY world please ! Yourstupid May 17th, 2006 4:17 am Tristan and Shelley, you are the reasons why everything has a warning label on it. Too many paint chips as a child? Still eating them? Anonymous May 17th, 2006 6:28 am Tristan, Thanks for this idiot article, you made the world more stupid today. It’s because of stupid people like you and our president that we have so many wars. You forgot to mention Red Hat and NOVELL LINUX, the Linux Distributions that worths millions AND are Americans (which are the biggest ones in this segment). By the way, the “cancer” is a product called Windows along with others Microsoft’s products, that keep stealing the money from american (and other continent’s people) money. Think before you write. Drew from Zhrodague May 17th, 2006 6:59 am Wow, what a great troll. I wonder if I can gather traffic by swearing there’s a conspiracy that makes our sky blue. It’s the COMMUNISTS! Anonymous May 17th, 2006 7:31 am sorry but god doesn’t exist!!!! Anonymous May 17th, 2006 7:33 am god doesnt exist dear shelley!! Anonymous May 17th, 2006 8:21 am My milnet home PC uses the secure Linux - the Fort Meade version developed by the NSA. Does it have the same problem? Thanx. Linux User and Computer Engineer May 17th, 2006 8:24 am This article could be entitled “lack of culture”. Anonymous May 17th, 2006 8:25 am Hi everyone! I’m portuguese and i couldn’t believe it when i saw your article tristan! We use microsoft software at our homes and offices and i can tell you it’s the worst software ever because they log everything we do, such as our internet logs, our buying logs, our banking logs… and it is more vulnerable to viruses than linux software. At my office, for instance, we use in our laptops microsoft software, because most of our clients use it, but our main computer is with linux software, because it’s more safer than microsoft, and since we use it, our system haven’t crashed at anytime, and didn’t have viruses or hasn’t been taken over by hackers. With microsoft, it happened a lot of times, and we couldn’t get the trust of our clients because their information wasn�t safe. Almost all technology developed in Portugal is based on unix systems, so, that’s one of the reasons we develop software to space industry!! I’m very proud of being Portuguese and not beeing so stupid about certain things that are so obviously true… Sorry about my “mispelling”… And by the way, we are going to win FIFA WORLD CUP in Germany!! (If you know what i am talking about…) :D Anonymous May 17th, 2006 8:52 am Great article! :-))))))) I have not had so much fun for ages. One would not believe that it’s ironic. But MS Windows is an exception, other operating systems made by Americans run perfectly. For example FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org And it’s free, of course ;-) Habosh Anonymous May 17th, 2006 9:20 am :-)))))))) BEWARE of all free software! Only purchased OS is reliable. I hope you run your Pure-FTPd and Apache deamons on Microsoft Windows 2003 Server ;-) Jan Amos Komensky Anonymous May 17th, 2006 9:39 am Linux may be a european invention, but other UNIX variants are not. In fact, UNIX was developed at Bell Labs, and BSD was developed at Berkeley (Berkeley Software Distribution). That doesn’t stop me from laughing at this article though. It sounds like it’s written by a 3rd grade wannabe-hacker. Miguel May 17th, 2006 10:02 am What a piece of shit have you wrote? I suppose it’s only another example of the typical american ’superiority’ (excuse my poor english). Bin Laden uses linux, ha ha ha (that was the best part) Well… at least I had some laughs… Anonymous May 17th, 2006 11:54 am He uses Linux to hack some Disney’s movies :D Definitively the best part ^^ *a french terrorist who uses worst than linux : NetBSD (like the NASA :p)* Anonymous May 17th, 2006 12:57 pm Just make a google seach on teh word FAILURE - your first hit will be the truth Anonymous May 17th, 2006 1:12 pm Do you people know that all current Windows versions include open source code? You can find instructions to verify that by using Google. Oh, Google! Wasn’t that this year’s most innovative company in the world? And yes, that American company is backed by probably millions of computers running Linux… Even more awful, you are using Linux yourself! I just see your website it backed by blogger.com: http://searchdns.netcraft.com/?restriction=site+contains&host=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogger.com&lookup=wait..&position=limited I think it is better to shut down your blog, to not use Internet anymore, and to not use Windows anymore, to not use computers anymore, to not use cell phones anymore, to not use DVD players anymore, to not use credit cards, amongst several others, to make sure you do not use open source….good luck! :-) It is easier to not use Microsoft software than using open source. In fact that means that open source is more popular than Microsoft’s software. Welcome to the real world :-) Anonymous May 17th, 2006 2:42 pm You, ARE A FUCKING DUMB FUCK AND SHOULD KILL YOURSELF NOW. The _only_ fucking reason that stops me from using linux is the fact that not everything has been ported for linux. Dick Morrell May 17th, 2006 3:43 pm Tristan, as I type this on my Linux box (made in Korea I think) compiled in Europe using binaries and libraries with code developed and honed by peer review worldwide I pause. I pause because I have to thank you for reminding you why I’ve spent 10 yrs writing and developing Linux code, protecting networks in America and the developed and developing world. I then remind you - you twat - that the software hosting your webpage is hosted on a Linux box - that when you pick up your email the chances are its a Linux box thats hosting it and the DNS you rely on so redneck hicks who married your sister (thats your brother bro) and have just managed to develop from using a crayon to clawing a keyboard can surf to your website. I thank you for restoring my faith in everything that is human. You are the very reason why I am grateful that speech is free and why we as a civilised world have the right so call you a moron. A moron with a spellchecker (probably developed using Aspell - an Opensource Linux developed tool). I must sign off as I need to press submit on this post - kicking off a process on a Linux box…. Anonymous May 17th, 2006 5:24 pm If old Billy boy would have spent some time innovating rather than just stealing other people’s ideas maybe he wouldn’t be losing his market to the equivelant of “Freeware”. Pretty pathetic on Microsofts part. Every day I use Linux I am grateful to those who have given so much to make my and others lives better. Linux is a revolution, and like all revolutions there are a lot of ignorant people on the sidelines spewing their vomit like opinions on all of us. Mark my words, countries outside of the United States will completely stop using Windows within ten years. The United States will be the last stand for Microsoft and they are already on shaky ground here (Who really wants to buy a new friggin computer for Vista? What a joke!) Bill’s tired old scheme for development with relation to ever increasing hardware demands is so flawed it isn’t funny. I cry for his pathetic bloated operating system. Lets all take a moment and pray for his admission to heaven (He’ll need it!). Anonymous May 17th, 2006 5:51 pm Ugh. Republicans. This article is the biggest pile of right wing bullshit i have ever seen. draco May 17th, 2006 6:45 pm You’re all a disgrace to Americans everywhere. Anonymous May 17th, 2006 6:49 pm You are such an idiot, you better shut your mouth and kill your self with a Sovietic AK47.. idiot Anonymous May 17th, 2006 9:49 pm Hmmm… you need to lay off the drugs there pal. Aditionaly linux is not nor will not EVER be illegal, stay off the net if this is the kind of crap we can expect from you! Ppl like you make me wish we had real internet police that could arrest dumbasses like you for even getting onto the internet! Anonymous May 17th, 2006 11:43 pm I’m a Linux user Republicans don’t know how to use Linux Republicans dont have brains They voted for George Bush after all The Gas Queen from Iraq Anonymous May 18th, 2006 12:05 am bush picture, bible talking…. Alright.. cheers Anonymous May 18th, 2006 12:40 am IDIOT!!! this is the most stupid page in the world. LINUX ROCKS alex May 18th, 2006 1:17 am I’m using both linux and windows… fedora core 4 and windows xp home edition for the better knowledge, I think Linux is better than the other… but for other reasons, windows still more comfortable… at least for these times… :) But I can’t stop laughing coz you say Linux is a threat… Threat?? Yeahh… yeah… for the big companies such as Microsoft… but for the poorest countries?? No…! Anonymous May 18th, 2006 2:02 am This is great! The funniest thing I have read in months. You made my day! :) I�m sending the link to all my friends. - A “dangerous” European. P.S.: This is soooo amusing. But I won�t make the error of thinking that all (not even most) Americans are like that. But some are funny, though :) Anonymous May 18th, 2006 5:34 am I never relaised ’some’ americans were this stupid. Its t w a t s like you tristan that give the rest of americans a bad name. Go back to your trailer home hill billy and stay away from your keyboard Anonymous May 18th, 2006 5:42 am [i]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.[/i] {lol} Not in the slightest bit biased then. Here’s to objective journalism! But yeah mate, your brilliant “American” programming that all your country f*cking bums is so good that many people would willingly through theirselves out of a window to stop Bill Gates from getting sh*t on his shoe. Though on the other hand, there (whisper it) another OS that’s (whipser it) [i]free[/i] and popular?8| What a f*cking suprise that many people are using it. If your American programming was so good, like your American distribution system that chokes small artists and independant film makers, then there wouldn’t be a f*cking altnerative like P2P or fecking linux would there? Microsoft products are shite, my OS constantly crashes , sofware doesn’t work like it should, even though it’s got bluetooth it won’t reckonise my phone’s system. The games are even worse, I’d rather play the origianl counter strike, ten times better then micorsoft can make and FREE. If I knew sh8t about computers, I’d swtich to linux. Shelly can take her operating system and stick it up her arse. [i]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.[/i] *busts a lung* If Bin Laden (which I really doubt) uses Linux to get his pirated DVDs then good on the man. American film production companies hardly are going to run out of money, and maybe it’s Bin ladens way of getting back the major Hollywood studios for years of institutionalised racism and sexism. [i]The name alone (LINUX) sounds kind of queer to me![/i] Have you given me the link to some kind of republican clich� machine? Anonymous May 18th, 2006 5:51 am How ignorant can one be to write these kinds of lies and nonsense? I sincerely hope not everyone in the US is like that, otherwise that nation is doomed. Anonymous May 18th, 2006 5:53 am i think we must find shelley and tristan and kill them John Mclean - anti-terrorist fighter and goddam good ole boy May 18th, 2006 6:13 am Dude, what do you think your broadband router is running? There’s a statistically high chance that it’s a cut-down version of Linux. Best disconnect it quick (afterall, the NSA are conduction pervasive and wideranging surveillence on their own citizens, much like the “commies”…) and throw it away. You’d also be doing us all a favour by making it impossible for you to post further crap like this on the internet. Although Linux borrows from UNIX which was an American invention, UNIX *was* developed in California - and they’re all commies as we well know (Google for, oh wait, you can’t use Google as they run Linux) - so your argument is safe. I am sure, SURE, this is an ironic blog. If it isn’t I can rest assured that the US propaganda machine ^H^H^H informative news network is doing it’s job well. God Bless the United States of America. Good for a laugh if nothing else ;) Anonymous May 18th, 2006 9:12 am Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, what on earth are you guys doing here masquerading as some stupid people? CJM May 18th, 2006 9:16 am Quality! This page deserves an award. It was good to start with, but the comments take it to a new level… Please tell me the contributors are real?! Anonymous May 18th, 2006 10:23 am You do know that George W Bush uses FreeBSD for his servers right? Are you saying that the president of the United States you all seem to love so much is not a patriot. Maybe we should be reporting this to Homeland security as your attempts to promote terrorism. The knocking of Google is also silly since the Whitehouse websites http://www.whitehouse.org/ and http://www.whitehouse.com/ support Google. Once again I have to know are you refering to the very government you say you support as communists. Maybe if you put half as much effort into things like education as you do into marketing for Bill Gates you would realise how daft you really sound. Anonymous May 18th, 2006 11:11 am The point is not if Linux is better than Windows. The point is that all those republican jerks are stupid …. and so funny. like F Zappa said: “”" And Jesus will think I’m a jerk, just like you — If you let those TV Preachers Make a monkey out of you! “”" cheers :) Ravenheart May 18th, 2006 12:27 pm Sorry to spoil your article but… the computer was invented by a EUROPEAN http://johnatanasoff.com/ bulgarian to be correct. Second, why do servers use linux andn ot windows, cuz they need fast and bug free(99%) systems. Sorry to spoil your article AGAIN but: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60X7KXdanAA Ever seen a UNIX based OS to crash on its official showing? Ever seen a new unix based OS to run slower on say 400MHz PCs, cuz XP can’t even run Counter Strike on a 433MHz CPU, 64ram with 16MB VGA. The only reason linux hasn’t taken over windows is that old bill has more noob customers and the game developers focus on creating games and apps for windows CUZ THE NOOBS CAN’T USE LINUX. PS. Really really really sorry AGAIN to spoil your article but… from where do you think old bill got Windows 1.0? He made it?? WRONG ,Windows 1.0 is MacOS go watch Pirates of the Silicon Valley and learn the history of your favorite Microshit company. Anonymous May 18th, 2006 12:36 pm One of the best joke i’ve ever seen on the web, thanks a lot ;-) Anonymous May 18th, 2006 12:39 pm Ah so you beleve in God, do you also read the Bible? There you can find that you should not put your trust on money as you do. You mail is based on fear and causes more fear anger and misunderstanding. Maybe you should pray to you Heavenly father and ask him is this is wat he wants you to do. Please listen to the answer and don’t try to convince him of your opinion. Greetings, Hans van Buitenen (NL) Anonymous May 18th, 2006 12:41 pm OH NOES!!!1 Fellow european and chinese, afgans and other vile creatures, we are discovered! Our clever plan to take over the world with our commie, nazi, communist, jew (add random more builds here) linux failed. We did not manage to do it this time BUT REMEMBER THAT WE WILL RETURN FOR YOU DISNEY!!!!111 AND FRENCMEN WILL TAKE OVER THE WHITEHOUSE!!! p.s. Ok, not is the right time to tell it is a joke. p.s.s. I believe it is. Otherwise our evolution was a veeeeery big waste of time. Anonymous May 18th, 2006 1:27 pm The author is just one of the few whose left behind by technology and even think they’re still superior and worth knowing. . linux can be used on piracy? as what you have said, not considering your all-so-proud “Windows” itself was stolen from another technology. theres only one word to describe your kind. “IGNORANT” Kleos May 18th, 2006 4:02 pm The fear of Microsoft and USA lose is too much to you? Put in your mind LINUX is now the most cheap, stable and better software in the world. More and more i belive that who likes BUSH don�t like the world and other things that involve it such like linux. If a make some mistakes writen it�s because i�m a smart european PORTUGUESE. Anonymous May 18th, 2006 4:24 pm I love your country so much, but I’m ashamed of people like you who make proof of nonsense and intolerance. By the way I’m French, I’m sure you love us :P God bless America, Europe, Asia, Linux , Open Source,… Vive la France!!!! Anonymous May 18th, 2006 7:29 pm There is good reason for the existence of the term “right-wing nut”. These people are so gullible, naive, ignorant and submissive to their narrow-minded ideology that they are delusional. It’s so easy to spot a right-wing nut rant - just look for the word “liberal” generously sprinkled about. Apparently the typical right-wing nut cannot frame an argument on the issues, but must resort to a liberal vs. conservative argument, apparently because if you use the word liberal in a pejorative sense, all other right-wing nuts agree with it and jump on board, however stupid and nonsensical it might be. You just cannot convince a right-wing nut of reality: when in doubt the right-wing nut will deny the truth and reality, then attack and attempt to discredit the messenger as being a liberal. Works every time! The Dixie Chicks had it right! Alexander klurre Klar�us May 19th, 2006 7:30 pm Hi! Well, I’m begging you not to start complain about my bad English. After all, I’m 14 years old and live in Sweden. But I can tell you one thing; I am not a Commie! Personally, I use Windows, but I have no problems with Linux actually. Just Because something is non-commercial it doesn’t have to mean that it’s hell on earth. I’m sure that the creators can create a profit on Linux, by receiving donations or by selling something that you can use with the Linux OS. And how exactly would Osama be able to use a laptop in the middle of nowhere. Does he have a High-speed connection to the Internet or is he just sitting on a nice little mountain and writing Press messages on it? Let’s face it; Osama uses no computer, because you can track them… And last time i checked Osama didn’t want to be found. Right? But if you don’t agree, please give me his E-mail. And what about your little theory? That just because Linux is free, Al Quida will save a lot of money so they can buy a bunch of missiles? I�m sorry, but I�m thinking that Al Quidas missiles are donations from the east or maybe Iran. Well, Osama needs to eat, let’s make the food more expensive! Then he won’t even be able to go and buy clothes at H&M. Well, the food will not be cheap for the Americans either, but what the hell.. THEY ARE SAFE!!!! HEY? =D You remember what Benjamin Franklin once said? “One who gives up a little liberty, to gain a little security, will deserve neither and loose them both. Think about it. And to finish my long comment, that no one i ever going to read (except my English-teacher), I want to express my support for President Bush and what he is doing. Of all the reforms he has suggested, I can only find one bad. God bless your troops, God bless your president and God bless America. You Lucky and Free bastards. ;) Kisses and hugs from Sweden. Anonymous May 19th, 2006 7:37 pm I am deeply sad at your situation Shelly. The community is laughing at you!!! Stupidity is such a societal problem. Luke May 19th, 2006 8:19 pm What on Earth are you guys on about? I myself use Windows, but I know for a fact that linux is a solid operating system that is superior to Windows in many ways. Almost ALL software, including main-stream anti-virus and firewall software, has been reproduced for linux. Please do your homework before posting next time. Anonymous May 19th, 2006 8:25 pm What an idiot. your an asshole! Justin Ryan May 19th, 2006 9:18 pm I am so high right now, I got no idea what’s goin’ on. Anonymous May 19th, 2006 11:26 pm Shelley,Tristan you make me hate myslef for being American, you two people make the rest of us look like ignorant shit to the rest of the world… I wish you could travel to the future in the next 2000 years and go to a school and watch how your dead religion is studied in history class…….. Anonymous May 20th, 2006 2:18 am …….Americans……. u r really stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupid!!!! grow up!… that’s all i have to say another smart portuguese!… Anonymous May 20th, 2006 2:43 am It’s a stupid article ! Linux is the future ! Windows and Bill Gates is the past ! Linux is great, and free without virus and bugs : http://www.guidelinux.org/img/blue%20screen.jpg ! Google approves free software like Linux ! Thanks for this useless and stupid article ! Anonymous May 20th, 2006 6:21 am I know a small company using Linux… check it out: http://www-1.ibm.com/linux/ - THE FUTURE IS OPEN - Anonymous May 20th, 2006 7:54 pm I have three things to say: 1) This article was brilliant. One of the funniest things I’ve ever read. 2) Windows is garbage. For years I ran Windows, then I finally got fed up with it not working. 3) If I wasn’t an Apple user and thus running Mac OSX, I would being running Linux right now. Anonymous May 21st, 2006 10:50 am I don’t know if anyone pointed this out yet: “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 developed as a student project by Linus Torvalds, not as a means of circumventing copyrights. Also, SCO doesn’t own the patents; Novell does. Anonymous May 21st, 2006 2:09 pm “illegal programs like Linux” a bad parody of Orwell. You are fascists, not the republicans. You disgrace the republicans and all Americans. Anonymous May 21st, 2006 4:12 pm “For example, this rugged IBM laptop I am using was designed and built by an American company” Are you really sure? It will be shocking for you, but I let you know that the Chinese company called Lenovo is the owner of the IBM computer business now. Anonymous May 21st, 2006 7:51 pm Bwahahaha. Opening it to Chinese hackers? Do you know that that IBM laptop you’re so proud of can be hacked like an Ax on wood by a chinese hacker? Do you know that linux is not a complete program, but a kernel that is built on to make distributions? Do you know that there are many linux distributions that are made by Americans? The linux kernel is open source, this means that anyone can download it and hack away at it. And let me remind you that it is much harder to hack a computer running linux than a windows computer. You obviously know nothing about linux, therefore please do not make unfair and laughably incorrect comments about this kernel. Anonymous May 22nd, 2006 5:48 am You are sick! Anonymous May 23rd, 2006 12:55 pm I can’t belive shelly is actualy USING this communist propaganda OS (linux) to host this blog, This is an outrage and an Insult to all proud Americans. The communists in china cant win by normal war, so they try to sneak in via finland and linux, which we all know is a bunch of communists drinking vodka with the russians and pretending to be free with those gay sweds on the other side. Real Americans use American products!!! Shelley The Republican » A True History of Linux May 23rd, 2006 3:56 pm […] In my first article on Linux, I allerted my fellow conservatives to the liberal conspiracy that threatens our Nation’s IT Infrastructure. My next article compared the Linux and Windows operating systems, thus debunking much of the hype associated with this upstart. With this article, I would like to dispel many of the myths that surround the cult of Linux, with a view to exposing it’s real origins. […] KH May 24th, 2006 3:29 am Have to say you lot are reading far too much into it. Basically you can go on arguing and ranting like kids with new toys. At the end of the day industry has and will need competitors to challenge, otherwise it goes stale. The fact that Linux is faster and can run off a floppy disc is neither here or there. I have made my living in MS products. I have no issues with them (except some of the costs they charge). But I use Linux as a means of entertainment. Windows simply cannot compete with online servers for games and search engines. But Im sure that if you put Linux in an office environment you would loose the productivity… Right now for the history lesson, you’ll probably edit or delete this..but: The computer was designed and built in the UK by Charles Babbage 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871 Heres a link if you want to read about it (someone should) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage And the cutting edge design of components and architecture of chips is Asia. Silicon valley does NOT manufacturer the latest chips, they may well have the knowledge, but costs have forced these abroad. Finally, I know it was posted 20th April ? Did it take 19 days to write ?? Tristan, interesting artical, not much facts, but I agree in some of your sentiments. Shelley, good to see free speech is alive and not censored. Me ?? Lets write some more code do to a job to get taxed more for my Governement to let more immigrants in…Rock on UK..My arse. Regards KH KH May 24th, 2006 3:36 am forgot this : Linux History: http://liw.iki.fi/liw/texts/linux-the-big-picture.html Microsoft History: http://www.thocp.net/companies/microsoft/microsoft_company.htm Make up your own minds, but please respect other peoples thoughts. KH Cyberborean Chronicles » Blog Archive » Osama’s favourite OS May 24th, 2006 8:09 am […] I laughed like a crazy when I read this and this. I thought first it was a joke but it is the 100% serious incredible idiocy. Read this and have A GREAT FUN! […] Sexe, vérités et biotechnologies » Blog Archive » Linux, menace européenne … May 25th, 2006 5:39 am […] Source : http://www.shelleytherepublican.com […] Dino May 26th, 2006 9:54 am My good, when I think that there is nothing more that you pseudo technologists and freedom fighters can say… You surprise me. Talk with people that use and know what that are saying, YOU clearly don’t know…. PS: There is a world outside America. Do you know!?????? Marneus May 28th, 2006 7:45 pm LynuxWorks says L-3 Display Systems chose its Linux-like LynxOS-178 real-time OS for the cockpit display system in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). Key selection criteria included adherence to open standards, Linux compatibility, interoperability benefits of a POSIX API, and support for ARINC-653, according to the company (Click for larger view of F-35) Is that Tux’s evil twin? (Click to enlarge) LynuxWorks says LynxOS-178 was “designed specifically for multi-thread and multi-process applications in safety-critical systems.” The company has long touted LynxOS’s ability to run Linux applications, through a Linux ABI (application binary interface). More recently, the RTOS has gained ARINC-653 scheduling, said to provide “security through virtual machine brick-wall partitions that prevent system events in one partition of the RTOS from interfering with events in another.” Additionally, LynxOS-178 was recently awarded a reusable software component (RSC) letter from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), said to decrease time-to-market, since it no longer needs to be certified for each use. L-3 Displays Group president Bob McGill stated, “We chose [LynxOS-178] because the company offered a very complete RTOS and artifact package, along with support services and business models that were unmatched by other vendors. In the military and defense market, we are required to work with stable vendors that have a solid and complete track record.” Bombs away (Click to enlarge) Joe Wlad, director of product management at LynuxWorks, stated, “Our technical leadership and progressive business models are very attractive to military avionics suppliers who are transitioning from proprietary operating systems to open standard-based solutions.” According to the Federation of American Scientists, the F35 is a “multirole fighter optimized for the air-to-ground role with secondary air-to-air capability.” It is based on Lockheed Martin X-35 design, and will be supplied with different take-off and landing systems to the Army, Marines, and Navy, at respective “FY94$” unit costs of $28M, $35M, and $38M. The F35 is expected to replace a wide array of existing fighters, LynuxWorks says. roberto May 29th, 2006 5:33 pm LONG LIFE FOR LINUX THE BEST YOU CAN DO FOR THE WORLD IS DESTROY THE CAPITALISM AND THE USA andre May 30th, 2006 8:24 pm i’m conservative, i am working for an us american company, and i’m working on linux. i like it, and your statements are very funny as you yourself use linux - your blog is hosted by that. haha. :-) GreYcell May 31st, 2006 6:38 pm you freakin idiot first of all dreamweaver doesnt run on linux because of macromedia policy not because of linux’s structure, second of all we run it on linux using something called wine. linuxfan June 1st, 2006 10:32 am hi Shelley, Tristan plz let the readers know what your qualifications are before making any comments about technology, that too a superior technology such as linux. Linux user June 3rd, 2006 11:32 am You say that you belive in God and Jesus? And you hate communism. Then here is somethin for you. Jesus was THE COMMUNIST, think of it. Share 1 pice of bread and 1 fish among 1000 people or even more, well thats is commusim. And btw, this article is just so funny! Get some research befor posting any article! Anonymous June 4th, 2006 3:56 am How DARE you call Microsoft a productive company when all they do is suck money from people? shmoo June 4th, 2006 5:07 am Why you so anti-linux you pile of christian tossers!?? Anonymous June 5th, 2006 8:10 am Three words: International Business Machine. Sounds like you’ve got yourself a 100% American product right there in your own home doesn’t it. Anonymous June 5th, 2006 8:22 am I heard tomorrow june sixth of 2006, Linux will take over the world, thus destroying all christains in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111!!! ME June 5th, 2006 7:05 pm I take it you know nothing of computers, and even less about Linux and alike software. You know just because you have internet access dosent mean you can write whatever you feel like without researching, let alone understanding what your writing about. cesar santamaria v June 6th, 2006 1:51 am Well…Im totally indignated and/or amazed by this article. Shelley, Tristan, it is quite remarkable the fact that none of you are enough informed of what really is Linux and all its contributions to computing(specially internet) as we now it right now. Im also a christian, and I can tell anybody here that this ideas are not enforced by a “religious ***d head” thing; is just a whole lot of misinformation, and criticism to a topic obviously the author doesnt even managed to research about(or maybe did research in wrong places–msn.com–). The fact is that Linux and the OpenSource movement are doing a lot of contributions to computing, and are sustaining american businesses, as well as world businesses too. Supporting them will not end in some chinese communism or the fall of the industry; it will keep microsoft from having a monopoly and dictaminating whatever the figure out, and will keep computing in a stable position, just for everyone. They are not sinners for that; maybe because they dont have Jesus in their hearts as we do, but thats another story. Dont use christian ideas to point at this, is a shame. And please, inform, dont just type totally wrong things. God bless you. PD: Go back to Jesus; dont follow a party ideal, follow Christ. FonTex June 7th, 2006 1:19 pm LMAO and all black cars are the work of satan Sorry but you are an idiot Dansker June 7th, 2006 3:17 pm This is good entertainment. I love You all - even the M$ ignorants ;) Linux rules :D AHMED June 8th, 2006 7:35 am sorry ppl but as i see linux is wining maximum 20 yrs and u will see linux in the lead coz it’s an open source and u can’t stop it but all u can do it is to take it and use be better and better in the amrican hands then give it 2 the world 4 me i wish i use linux coz it’s the best secure system second coz every thing is avalibale in that system not like windows u must buy every thing like norton and office and Zonealarm ———————————————————— windows = unsecure - u must pay - few programes build in linux = secure - free - many many programs buildin ————————————————————- in 20 year from now say goodbye windows and welcome linux ubuntu user June 8th, 2006 4:56 pm I’m very tolerant person but I will never tolerate the NTFS. Windows, my dear friend, is an inferior product, just like your world view is. warplayer June 10th, 2006 9:16 pm I can’t believe this discussion has gone on so long. It is SO OBVIOUS that this article was meant to be a joke. Cheers on the laugh, but i’m still pretty amazed so many people bought in - i thought it was obvious that it was a parody. shadowreign666 June 10th, 2006 9:32 pm if this isn’t a fake site, I don’t know what is. This is what happens when theological dogma and political ignorance join forces. Ironically, the creators of this site have no pure conception of linux is truly like. wait..i give too much credit. who wants to bet this is a Microsoft PR rep who is using fear as the typical weapon of human cattle herding… Anonymous June 10th, 2006 9:45 pm Yep, you’re a Republican alright. bobby June 10th, 2006 11:35 pm you, sir or madam, are a complete idiot. I mean, I don’t even know where to start, but let me just remark that this whole america-versus-the-world bullshit is completely off the mark. Did you know that IBM thinkpads are now made in China by a company called Lenovo? That even computers “manufactured” or “assembled” here in the USA contain chips manufactured elsewhere? Or that the majority of linux-supporting companies such as Google and Ubuntu, among others, are American? Or that a significant chunk of Linux’s development is done by for-profit American companies like Hewlett-packard? Did you know that some absurd number like 80 percent of the world’s servers run linux? Or that Microsoft has its own dedicated lab for the study of technologies found in Linux? I won’t try to address each of your ridiculous claims here, because the enormity of that task really just boggles the mind. Linux is not just a program, and it is certainly not illegal. None of the “facts” that you have posted about linux, its geopolitical uses, its legality, its development method or its quality and utility as software are true or in any way remotely valid. Get your head out of your ass, do some research, and drop me an email. it’s awcomeon@gmail.com, since i’ve noticed your little website doesn’t display that information. Anyone who wants to contact me about this can. It’s not a fake address; I’m serious. I want to actually hold a conversation with you. Yes, I’m american. I’m even Christian. I’ve been working with computers since I was 6 and linux since I was 10. I’m not an idiot and I’m not a zealot, I just think you are. Prove me wrong. X_UK June 11th, 2006 1:02 am The more republican supporters i come across, the more i think they are one of the main reasons why America is becoming such a shithole in the eyes of the world. What a bunch of loons! I feel sorry for the normal Americans who have to live with nutcases like you people. People like this shouldn’t be allowed to use the internet - the world shouldn’t have to learn of this kind of stupidity. X_UK June 11th, 2006 1:04 am BTW, i wouldn’t be surprised if this site was hosted on a Linux related product. Nutcase. Mark June 11th, 2006 6:11 am Err…I hate to point this out… computers, invited in UK. Public private encryption… invented in UK. The world wide web… invented by a Brit. Telephone invented by a Brit. The first stored programme, run in the UK. I could go on - but I’m sure your implants are filtering out my lies. seamus June 11th, 2006 2:02 pm Fantastic. Best piece of comedy writing I’ve read in a long time. You could be the next Bill Hicks, you’re that good at taking the piss out of American conservatives. Michael Shigorin June 11th, 2006 6:34 pm > Like most things that are worth owning, Computers are an American invention. Is it a humour site or just another dumb american speaking? Poor miseducation product, go check the history. You’ll be *amazed* how little america brought into this world, really. > And guess what software Osama Bin Laden uses on his laptop? Windows 2000, export variant. Rumours were it’s thanks to its weenie encryption FBI were able to break into the hard drive. If he was wise enough to use Linux, things could have come a bit differently yet another day. > but the Bible teaches that God can make any sinner repent. Especially those who only know one god: A Dollar. Overall, being such a ridiculous biosystem as Tristan is, or plays, isn’t going to qualify for a human. Thus not really needing searching Bible as well… :-( Bri's Mindless Droning June 11th, 2006 7:42 pm An amusing bit from a clueless republican about Linux… Ohhh boy, this is quite amusing. From ‘Shelly The Republican’ who claims “We are counteracting the liberal war of lies!” Linux: A European threat to our computers Quotes worth mentioning: For example, this rugged IBM laptop I am using was… Si June 11th, 2006 7:46 pm hehe. your site is like kitsch meets patische. Bri June 11th, 2006 8:11 pm Buddy, hate to burst your bubble, but shellytherepublican.com runs on Apache/FreeBSD and formerly Linux in April. Quite amusing though. matt June 11th, 2006 8:22 pm Funny. This site is hosted at Dreamhost, which uses nothing but linux servers; therefore this site is running on some linux variant. Nevermind that it’s also using the open-source wordpress software. God, what a bunch of hypocrits. Anonymous June 11th, 2006 10:52 pm Wow… I must thank all the people who actually belive this. With all the people with such low IQs on this planet it will make it easier for me to be succesful in this world. Kuba June 11th, 2006 11:14 pm To bobby above: no bobby, hate to disappoint you, but it’s YOU who are the stiff idiot, m’dear. * - * - * To think that even in the face of such riveting, tear-producing, rolling-on-the-floor-inducing writing, there are still non-believers who take it (less-than) seriously. What the world has come to. The most sarcastic, humorless creatures on the planet seem to be using (or advocate) the same OS as I am using. Makes me think it’s time to move to XP just to avoid you people . . . Shelley June 12th, 2006 1:09 am quote: # matt June 11th, 2006 8:22 pm Funny. This site is hosted at Dreamhost, which uses nothing but linux servers; therefore this site is running on some linux variant. Nevermind that it’s also using the open-source wordpress software. God, what a bunch of hypocrits. Sorry, but you are WRONG (like most of you are: http://www.dreamhost.com/dedicated/contact.cgi?type=shared_win http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?189294 Shelley OMG June 12th, 2006 3:05 am Hello, I’m European and I use Linux. So I am marxist, I support Al Qaida and I defraud Walt Disney? This article is an incredible piece of crap, I hope the one who wrote it didn’t mean what he said. I started laughing when he talked about Bin Laden. kossak June 12th, 2006 3:55 am I guess the one who wrote this article was sitting on the toillet while writing this crap and was very bored eric June 12th, 2006 4:06 am what happens, shelley, when you disagree with the republican party? you will have to change your domain name. this website sounds a lot like ‘project for a new american small minded bigoted rant, from someone who is unlikely to hold a passport’. freedom.. always wins eventually. linux is free, m$ is not. eric. treris June 12th, 2006 5:49 am At first I thought that Tristan was being sarcastic and making a joke, but appearantly he was serious about linux being a european threat to american “brilliance”. This article was so full of mistakes I don’t even know where to begin, but let me stick to the general issue, Linux is NOT about trying to work around any copyright laws, it is about CHOICE, it is about freedom. I have actually lived in the US of A for a year (as a European) and I loved it, but it is the above kind of mindless talk that really had me gagging for some reality, some less biassed media and above all some more openminded people. But hey that’s just me, fortunately I know that there are many americans out there who do not agree with Tristan…..there are even linux users in the US of A that thought must drive Tristan mad treris June 12th, 2006 7:37 am o before i forget, wonderful people of shelly the repblican, you are actually advertising with linux on your website, the ad from dreamhost talks about a starter package and what is the first line in that starter package?? Debian Linux check the ad for yourselves http://shelleytherepublican.com/dreamhostbig.gif have a good one rhinotechie June 12th, 2006 10:00 am I have never read so much bullsh*t on one page. The ignorance shown on this page is beyond belief. Linux is a competitor to Windows inspiring the all american way of business, COMPETITION! A European conspiracy?? you guys watch too many movies… Oh and that great american company IBM whose Laptop you so proud of… uhmm… it’s owned by a Chinese Company called Lenovo so keep bragging about your “american made” laptop if it makes you feel better… It is indeed a sad moment to see such ignorance come out of people, but i guess i can’t get mad at the mentally challenged people like shelly the dee dee dee and the gang… Ralph June 12th, 2006 11:52 am It might surprise readers know that the armed forces, the equipment and smart-weapons that our soldiers have strapped to their bodies, most ISP’s, , many intelligent network devices, and the government itself, are all powered by Linux because it isn’t always about the almighty dollar… Or is it…??? It’s about saving dollars rather than living by the idium that “you’ve gotta spend money to make money”, especially when it’s American tax dollars…!!! Before mixing politics and technology it would be a good idea to do your research and know the facts, otherwise you’re just sounding like another clueless politician… NUFF SAID… Matty June 12th, 2006 4:39 pm Linux is worse than a cancer. But the liberal media is ignoring many of its most insidious and malicious traits. It is a tool of radical lesbian and gay pro-choice left wingers, and has been proven to induce spontaneous abortions in pregnant women unwittingly using Linux to surf the web. And a friend of mine knows a guy who ended up married to another man after checking his email at a library in Boston that was running a Linux server! And what about the children? The threat is real! But it may already be too late! Morphius June 12th, 2006 7:47 pm what clue-less twit wrote this dribble … Linux is here to stay IBM and Novell support and use it … Microsoft has borrowed many ideas from it and have a dedicated section devoted to investigating linux technologies. Microsoft are IT dictators … and by the way MS-DOS was created by Apple engineers and sold to Bill for a steal … sergio June 12th, 2006 9:57 pm You’ve only shown that your favorite attitude is stupidity. Vuk June 12th, 2006 10:19 pm Jaysus people, calm down. Take a bucket load of Bill O Reilly and add a truck load of satire and you get shelleytherepublican.com. One of the funniest pieces I’ve read in a long time, Bravo! DWolve June 13th, 2006 2:15 am Only my 2 cents…. Either this post is meant to be a joke or the poster is a total IDIOT with technology. I got this from a friend and I don’t have time to do a background check on this website, so my apologies if I offended anyone. But seriously… If this is meant to be a joke/satire as Vuk says, kudos for an excellent article. I got myself laughing. Else if this is for real, take my advice and vote for whoever the author is in your next election. God bless America. Lorenzo V. June 13th, 2006 4:35 am Hahahaha! Yeah, computers are 100% american! They were also invented by Americans: Turing was American, Von Neumann was American, Zuse, was American, etc. etc. Sor June 13th, 2006 6:07 am So that the Americans are created the center of the world. The fanaticism is very bad… Anonymous June 13th, 2006 8:13 am BEST…DAMN…JOKE…..EVER!! You americans have NO idea what so ever, that’s why the smart Americans and the rest of the world call you Dumbfuckistan, and after reading this, I only give them more props. Go buy a life ;) omg June 13th, 2006 8:47 am This is even more retarded than bush… Stupid self-centered americans. And no, I have no intention of capitalizing bush, nor americans… stupid ppl June 13th, 2006 11:25 am AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahHAHAhahahahaha khahahahahahahahahaha stupid americans ahahahahahahahahahahahaha Jcheung June 13th, 2006 12:22 pm Haha this is a hilarious joke… at least I think it is… Linux powa June 13th, 2006 2:42 pm Haa what a good novel this article !!! I’ve discovered the great power of the US … let me laugh … You’re pro-windows : the “window system” was first invented for APPLE, the mouse too. Whoa, so beautiful the us power … Did you ever tried Linux ? I don’t think so … I’ll not say what it has already benn said, concerning the stability and other … Just try it and forget for a moment your buggued windows, you’ll see the true power of the computers ;) European June 13th, 2006 3:15 pm Typical dumb americans, no wonder the whole world hates you.. Anonymous June 14th, 2006 7:18 am Linux?there is still Linux outside …. OMG we all gonna die Scott June 14th, 2006 8:26 am Shelly, maybe if you actually educated yourself insted of the ‘I’m holyer than tho’ attitude, and actually LISTEN to what people are saying, then maybe you would learn something. Think of what God wuld think of you not even listening to others and branding them liars. Anonymous June 14th, 2006 9:46 am http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?189294 PHP, Perl ,CGI, Jabber Technologies developed on/for Unix/Linux :D Now I think you must go outside and kiss some penguins for letting you express yourself. ;) [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[edited by admin: message added: so what? they also offer windows hosting plans! what can i do about it? would you avoid walmart only because they also sell the morning after pill? no. ]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] Anon June 14th, 2006 10:11 am Linux is an AMERICAN invention. NOT European. I liek the way you say your christian, yet you openly tell lies without any backup or proof - branding people from other races, creed and religion. Does your God give you the right to tell lies? blackadder June 14th, 2006 10:59 am You know I could make an intelligent argument against these fools but as they have already demonstrated they just wouldnt understand it. So further down to your own level Tristan and Shelley, you’re ugly and your moms dress you funny. 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