Are Linux Zealots Terrorists?

pair-a-noyd submitted this one choice piece of flamebait, I'll just quote it ".. I have a hard time seeing the Zealots as any different from terrorists because of the nature of their threats. I expect one of them -- or perhaps a group of them -- will go too far at some point and do significant damage to the open-source movement, the ongoing litigation with SCO or their employers. I strongly believe that if September 11 showed us anything, it was that zealots of any movement represent a huge risk to that movement because zealots do not consider the repercussions of their actions" Like the zealots he speaks of, he goes to far, but he does make legitimate points that the Open Source community has wrestled with in the past.

Grammah 4 slshdot!

[Anonymous Coward]

It's "too" Taco, "too far."

Re:Easy way to tell...

[Dragoon]

Heh, excellent point :)

Its like microsoft, and linux.

Microsoft will attempt to give you a good user experience. Linux will actually deliver.

oh wait.. am i a zealot? damn.

Wait a minute...

[Noryungi]

/. just melted the server this rant was on... So I guess Linux Zealots may be "terrorists" after all!

I can see the scene from here:

*sound of melted plastic bubbling from the crater that once was a web server*

User: Oh my gosh!! What happened to that server??
Admin: Your rant against the Linux Zealots was posted on Slashdot.
User: Oooops.
Admin: The server was slashdotted by 500,000 angry Slashdot readers. 45 seconds after the post.
User: Oooops.
Admin: (points silently to the spiky 5ft cluebat hanging on the wall behind his desk)
User: Oooops?
*loud thump*
User: I told you so! Linux zealots are terrorists!
Admin: Maybe, but I feel better now...

Re:LOL!

[browman]

When was the last time a terrorist helped a little old lady cross the road?

And when was the last time a true linux zealot actually went outside?

Re:Warballs - Lazy journalism

[duffbeer703]

It's disturbing that you would say such a thing in the wake of September 11.

Re:Truth Behind the Lies

[Anonymous Coward]

No one is promising us 40 virgins in the afterlife if we die in the name of Torvalds, either.

Are you kidding? You'll go to the Geek Afterlife, and everyone there is a virgin...

Re:LOL!

[CAIMLAS]

That's because they're 15, and are too busy being a gothy, linux-using elitist intellectual to bother with such things. I suspect these are your peers.

Re:woah

[byolinux]

I give you, Steve the Super-Villian - http://www.ubergeek.tv/switchlinux/ [ubergeek.tv]

A good, humourous, yet only-slightly exaggerated from a (small?) portion of the Linux community...

I don't think zealots are what we should be afraid of, what we should fear are fundamentalists.

"You have to be realistic about terrorism. Ya gotta be a realist: Certain groups of people--Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montana--are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time. That's the reality. Angry men in combat fatigues talking to God on a two-way radio and muttering incoherent slogans about freedom are eventually going to provide us with a great deal of entertainment." - George Carlin

Re:My opinions about linux

[Anonymous Coward]

Shit, you'd think Andy Tanenbaum would give up after all these years...

OT, troll, couldn't help myself, yada yada

[Damek]

people that seek nothing less than the complete failure of our modern society and who are willing to fight to death for it.

Sounds to me like the people in power in my own US of A, if you ask me. Except for the part of "willing to fight to death for it" ... they're more "willing to send others to fight to death for it."

Re:Real Question: How is this flamebait?

[jasonditz]

We all have brains, or at least rudimentary nervous systems, and it's not an act of terror to use them
The department of Homeland Security will be the judge of THAT!