Linus Not The Father Of Linux, According to Report 867
MrIrwin writes "According to this article on Yahoo, Linus is not the real father of Linux and Open source software is really just code nicked from other sources. " Groklaw has done a dissection of the press release. It's a press release by the Alexis de Toqueville Institution, who gets funding from MSFT, as well as believes that US IT troubles are because of free software. Oh, and terrorism works better because of open source, and the "Star Wars" program was a good idea.
Someone has to say it (Score:5, Funny)
BLASPHEMY! (Score:5, Funny)
This is old news (Score:1, Funny)
we all know (Score:2, Funny)
Finally! (Score:2, Funny)
Finally, a man I can agree with!
Linus not Father of Linux... (Score:5, Funny)
I was kinda drunk that night (Score:2, Funny)
I have to know!!!
Who's my baby's daddy?!?!?!??
It's gotta be Darl (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Seeing as they like history...... (Score:1, Funny)
In keeping with the motif here (Score:0, Funny)
RMS never told you what happened to your father (Score:1, Funny)
Darl Vader : "No Linux! I am your father. Search your feelings. You know this to be true"
Fah. No one's gonna take... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Someone has to say it (Score:5, Funny)
"Bill turns to the OS community and says: 'No... I am you father!'"
Obligatory Al Gore Joke (Score:2, Funny)
Of course ... (Score:2, Funny)
This article is dead-on... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Seeing as they like history...... (Score:5, Funny)
*ducks*
Star Wars (Score:3, Funny)
Just wait 20 years, we'll get Linux FUD Special Edition.
Re:Seeing as they like history...... (Score:5, Funny)
This is almost as funny as that "5 year study" on the Total cost of ownership of Win2K vs Linux that was released in 2001.
Do me a favor (Score:3, Funny)
then again... (Score:5, Funny)
Short Summary..... (Score:5, Funny)
As far as I can tell, the true father of Linux is in fact Al Gore. He invented it shortly after his fledgling idea of a net-inter caught on and became what we know now as the internet. It was originally called Alix, but had to be renamed due to copyright issues involving a book [adti.net] about wonderland....
Re:Fah. No one's gonna take... (Score:1, Funny)
Everyone knows the real father of Linux (Score:2, Funny)
M.
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Numismatica [altervista.org]
My stock! (Score:3, Funny)
OK, so first of all, wasn't the GNU project underway by the time Linux was written, thus making RMS much more of the "Father"?
In addition, according to the article: "Brown suggests the invention of Unix is an integral part of the Linux story," but isn't that the point of a Unix-like OS developed for the PC?
Oh, wait. I'm supposed to buy in to FUD tactics.
MS makes terrorism easy! (Score:1, Funny)
Actually... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Someone has to say it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Seeing as they like history...... (Score:2, Funny)
The star wars program WAS a good idea... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Linus not Father of Linux... (Score:3, Funny)
"I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous"
I can prove Linux didn't come from Linus! (Score:5, Funny)
And since Lemma 1.7 says "no communist is worth his own weight in dog excrement," it naturally follows that Linux must have originated elsewhere.
I propose one of the following:
I think you'll see the logic in all of this immediately.
NASA probably wrong. Moon may be made of cheese. (Score:5, Funny)
I tell all in my soon-to-be-released book.
Find out how NASA lied!
Excerpts to be published on my website.
(Note: This is not a shameless self-promotion gimmick. It's not. Really.)
Re:What a farce. (Score:5, Funny)
"Yeah - we can kill two birds with one stone: write a book to make more money for our 'institute'.."
"..I thought it was a 'foundation'..."
"Whatever..."
"...and throw out more FUD at the OS communists!!"
"BRILLIANT!!"
"Dude!! Are you goin' to Bogart that?"
Re:FUD not a serious threat to Linux at this stage (Score:1, Funny)
Seriously, do the fucking mods even read the posts?
What everybody fears ... (Score:3, Funny)
Enter Bill Gates
[Darth Vader voice] Linux ... I am you father [/Darth Vader voice]
Linux's actual father (Score:5, Funny)
Thus, by using Linux, you're supporting the terrorists.
Everyone please report to the near Homeland detention center for "reprogramming".
Re:I can prove Linux didn't come from Linus! (Score:5, Funny)
Cthulhu will not be pleased.
Poll: What is this story? (Score:2, Funny)
* I can't believe it's not fud
* Tofud (Fud for vegetarians)
Re:Linus Torvalds should sue the author (Score:2, Funny)
Linus Torvalds should sue the author for libel and defamation of character
Linus is not Darl. He has a real kernel to maintain...
Why those muckrakers! (Score:5, Funny)
He didn't.
Re:Strawman.. (Score:4, Funny)
I thought the whole idea of SDI was for lasers to be created in a vacuum.
Linux on Jerry (Score:2, Funny)
Jerry: And now the results of the DNA testing... Linus, you are... not the fater!
Linus: You slut! I knew it. F**k you! [throws his chair back and walks off the set]
DUH! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Seeing as they like history...... (Score:4, Funny)
It should have become the kernel of their new, more advanced version of Windows, but as the code was leaked they decided to abandon it, blamed the leakage to its head developer and fired him - some guy called Stallman - and hired Cutler to his place.
This was a brief history of Windows NT and Linux, and an explanaition why Windows sucks and Linux rocks today. Stallman, on the other hand, felt pissed and took the lead of certain miserable and insignificant foundation called FSF, which developed viral licenses to communistic IP-dishonoring hippies, and later on claimed himself its founder.
By they way, I also heard recently that Linus' file in Finnish citizenship registry keeps magically getting erased at random times ever since the said registry was moved to run on
But now you have to excuse me, as I'm out of crack and my hands are shaking too badly.
Looks like it's time to change my sig.. (Score:2, Funny)
Thanks for the info. Go Google..
Re:What a farce. (Score:5, Funny)
yo.
Re:Seeing as they like history...... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Seeing as they like history...... (Score:5, Funny)
I finally get Microsoft's and SCO's business model (Score:5, Funny)
Star Wars (Score:2, Funny)
Bill G: Tux, I *am* your father.
Tux: Noooo!! (translated from Penguin)
Bill G: Search your flippers, you know it to be true.
Terrorism? (Score:4, Funny)
Linus Not the Father of Linux... (Score:2, Funny)
How microsoft was "born" (Score:2, Funny)
We all know microsoft was a virgin birth.
Bow down and pray to the geek god gates!
Take not the name of microsoft in vain!
Worship no other gods before microsoft!
Unfortunate phrasing (Score:3, Funny)
If it's all the same, I'm with them in spirit but am going to take a pass on the call to beat off the dark side.
"Luke, I am your . . . ohhhhh, that's it, that's it, a little faster, ohhhhhhh . . .
Alexis de Toqueville? (Score:3, Funny)
My favorite part (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Windows Vs. Linux in TCO (Score:5, Funny)
Just wait until you see it on a Neon server. It'll be a glowing review!
Re:Linus Torvalds should sue the author (Score:5, Funny)
I would frankly nail the libellous sons-of-bitches to the wall, profit or no.
I thing you meant libellous bastards [adti.net].
Re:Seeing as they like history...... (Score:2, Funny)
That's the marketing-speak version of "Windows 98 Short-Bus Edition".
Re:Seeing as they like history...... (Score:2, Funny)
It couldn't have stood for "New Technology" since the Win2K startup screen says "Built on NT Technology". Would Microsoft really be stupid enough to make the startup screen read "Built on New Technology Technology"?
So it obviously stands for "Not Trustworthy".
Re:What a farce. (Score:3, Funny)
Well, I claim that the entire article was stolen. Every word in it appears in several previously-published dictionaries. They should sue Mr Brown and the AdTI for copyright infringement.
(One problem might be discovering just which dictionaries they plagiarized. The dictionary publishers seem to have plagiarized from each other extensively, making it difficult to discover the real source of any particular word.)
Re:Seeing as they like history...... (Score:5, Funny)
Of course, what REALLY burns me is the line that says For almost thirty years, programmers have tried to build a Unix-like system and couldn't, somehow suggesting that UNIX is like the the tinfoil hat version of the pyramids of Egypt--some mysterious advanced technology that no one understands and couldn't possibly replicate.
Apparently BSD isn't written by programmers either.
Re:Seeing as they like history...... (Score:5, Funny)
Linus is an alien. He is a Finnish citizen currently residing in the United States.
(And take a look at the Finnish language. Talk about alien
Re:NASA probably wrong. Moon may be made of cheese (Score:2, Funny)
Oh, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Re:Seeing as they like history...... (Score:5, Funny)
"Using the Altair 8800, Bill Gates and Paul Allen develop the first programming language, and begin an extraordinary, history-making journey."
It looks like Bill and Paul were the proud parents of the a bouncing baby programming language, the first one ever!
Re:Seeing as they like history...... (Score:4, Funny)
Obligatory "Star Wars" reference (Score:5, Funny)
LINUX: They told me enough! They told me you killed him!
SCO: No, Linux. I am your father!
LINUX: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Re:Mud Slinging (Score:4, Funny)
You're FUCK thinking of FUCK Tourettes Syndrome
Dan.
Re:Windows Vs. Linux in TCO (Score:2, Funny)
Born in a Whore House (Score:5, Funny)
Why stop at that? Where Micro-Soft's original corporate home was is very intresting. The Sundowner Motel in Albuquerque. The Sundowner was a seedy little Motel that was widely used by drug dealers and Hookers for their business.
Microsoft was born in a Whore House! Dosen't that explain their Business ethics?
Re:Seeing as they like history...... (Score:3, Funny)
Windows New Technology (WNT) is one letter off VMS (Score:2, Funny)
like HAL is one letter off IBM...Interesting.
RJ
How do you get a blonde to marry you? (Score:3, Funny)
A: Tell her she's pregnant.
Q: What's the first question she'll ask.
A: Is it mine?
Re:Seeing as they like history...... (Score:3, Funny)
Of course, that might fuck up your lipstick, but ain't it worth it....
What's wrong with condoms? Get some without spermicide. Couple that with the 'rythem method.'
Find a guy who's willing to cope and if he's not, ditch him.
Re:Seeing as they like history...... (Score:2, Funny)
Now why would you want to keep a kid in your pants?
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
Re:Seeing as they like history...... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Seeing as they like history...... (Score:3, Funny)
I'm not reffering to the claim that they invented the first programming langauage. I'm not even reffering to their attempt to take credit for the explosion of the internet, or any of the other absurd "history". That junk is almost expected.
No, I'm reffering to the use of YELLOW TEXT on a WHITE BACKGROUND in the "Early 90's" segment. We all know Microsoft lies. We all know Microsoft violates the law as standard operating practice. Yada yada yada. But yellow text on a white background?!? That's a new low even for Microsoft. Someone needs to do some serious prison time.
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