Five Things You Can't Discuss about Linux 662
gondwannabe writes "Here are Five Things You Aren't Allowed to Discuss About Linux. With considerable chutzpa, an insightful Rob Enderle takes on what he considers five dogmas in the OSS community and explains why they're wrong. Examples: Linux is secure, "communes" actually work in the long haul, and that Linux is "pro-developer."
Rob who? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Rob Enderle boycott by NYTimes (Score:5, Funny)
Absolutely! Who is the bozo who posted this, anyways? This CmdrTaco guy should leave Slashdot to the guys who actually run the show - Zonk and kdawson.
Five more things... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Site is slow - here's the text (Score:5, Funny)
nothing to see here, move along...
There's no Linux? (Score:1, Funny)
3 steps (Score:5, Funny)
2: ???
3: Karma!
Can't RTFA (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Irony (Score:1, Funny)
You're not allowed to discuss this, boy; I'll let you get away with it this time, but next time it will mean some time in the cell with my deputy Sissy-John, mkay, son?
The funniest line in the whole article . . . (Score:2, Funny)
<insert your own joke here>
Re:Irony (Score:5, Funny)
-R
Only Five? (Score:4, Funny)
Mod me down (Score:3, Funny)
You're welcome.
Re:Some of this is just wacky (Score:5, Funny)
Of course not.
We should leave that job to hired shills like Rob "Ferrari Laptop" Enderle:
"One impressive piece of execution is that when you fire the machine up it plays a WAV file of a Ferrari race car revving its engine. That alone is worth the relatively low $1,899 price of admission. Even when I'm in a meeting, I don't turn the sound off because of the unbridled envy that seems to show up in the eyes of my, granted mostly male, co-attendees. So far no one has complained."
Click here for more shameless whoring... [eweek.com]
Re:Site is slow - here's the text (Score:4, Funny)
Judging from the writing quality of this article, he can't write, period.
-Lars
Please pay me to write flamebait (Score:5, Funny)
What next, a "brilliant John Dvorak"... oh, wait, that was last week.
Re:Irony (Score:2, Funny)
Only trolls can't recognize humour (Score:3, Funny)
or anything good of that ilk.
With no cud to chew
what else can it do
but spew fud for the Redmond-based bilk.
If you're going to ask for an article to be called trollish, at least have the decency to stand behind your name. Oh, whoops. You must be Mr. Enderle. So pleased to meet you at last...
(incidentally for the humour-challenged, the first words of that limerick was a contraction of "Anonymous Coward")
cheers...ank
Re:Some of this is just wacky (Score:2, Funny)
Just like the idiot using his Nextel cell phone as an old school walky-talky, just so the whole restraunt can hear his f-ing roger beep and know how cool he really is. Yes, when I glare at him, it's with envy. I'm envious his neck isn't in my hands.
Re:Rob Enderle boycott by NYTimes (Score:2, Funny)
1. Idiot author writes inflammatory article
2. Said article is posted on Slashdot
3. Said article is no longer available for viewing by _anyone_ due to being Slashdotted
what a total cock end (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Some of this is just wacky (Score:3, Funny)
> installable option...Anyone who has ever installed Tomcat knows how valuable that is.
You sick mother f***er! Why would you want that Scientology Elron crap installed on your computer?!?!? >:(
Oh wait. I thought you said Tomkat. n/m.
Rob Enderle MadLibs(TM) (Score:5, Funny)
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One: Is Rob Enderle a Myth?
Two: Is Rob Enderle Secure?
Three: Does Rob Enderle Work?
Four: Is Rob Enderle Pro-Developer, or Pro-You?
Five: Is Rob Enderle is Open?
Discuss....
Re:Irony (Score:5, Funny)
Tagging: HAHA, DefectiveByDesign, ItsATrap...
Wait, this is about linux?!!!
Retagging: Troll, FUD, Flamebait.
Re:Some of this is just wacky (Score:2, Funny)
Re:"an insightful Rob Enderle"??? DOES NOT COMPUTE (Score:3, Funny)
He is very insightful. You just read his article and do the exact opposite of what he says. The guy must have written a thousand articles and the odds are only 1/2^1000 that he could have gotten every single one of them wrong accidentally, so he is clearly a genius who only pretends to be dumb.
Re:Hush, you... (Score:5, Funny)
"Presenting the products and companies in abstract was actually rather brilliant, however, I can't find a Steve Jobs-like person I can congratulated for this excellent work."
He's such a good writer that he can laugh in the face of a comma splice. He is so good that he can make up new rules (like "An independent marker word can join two independent clauses because I say so.") and people will think all the better of him for it. He deftly taunts us with our normal grammatical expectations and then pulls them away at the last minute, leaving us awash in a sea of sophomoric writing -- trapped in his world, right where he wants us.
On this same thread, he's pioneering the way in new lines of logic. For example, normally, if you saw this:
"If we are actually doing an evaluation we have to evaluate what we are actually going to end up using and it isn't generic "Linux.""
"Do your assessment with a real product against real metrics. SuSe and Red Hat are both capable enough to compete without cheating."
"The easy path here would be to present the different security models for the different distributions but, for this purpose, I'm going to leave Linux in abstract and talk about the unique security problem it represents."
Carry on, Enderle. Carry on.
Re:Rob who? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Rob who? (Score:5, Funny)
Linus: What truth?
Rob: There is no Linux.
Re:Some of this is just wacky (Score:2, Funny)
Except that Alan Cox guy, that totally sounds like a fake name