Oracle Linux Adopters Suffer Backlash

atbarboz writes "One of the first converts to Oracle's support for Linux said it has endured a public backlash since its decision to drop Red Hat. 'Melbourne company Opes Prime Stockbroking told ZDNet Australia that in the weeks following its announcement to adopt Oracle Linux, upset Linux enthusiasts phoned, e-mailed and wrote about the company online to complain at the decision. "People called us out of the blue to tell us we were idiots," said Opes executive director Anthony Blumberg.'"

Don't believe a word

[Anonymous Coward]

Linux users would never be THAT stupid, it's just Microsoft's guerrilla PR tactics aimed at discouraging linux use. Ballmer probably made half the calls himself... oops it's guerrilla not gorilla. My bad, Ballmer wasn't involved at all then.

I can even see the marketing campaign to accompany this "Beyond idiocy - Windows vista".

Religion.

[Savage-Rabbit]

Linux is an OS, not a religion.

You're must be new here....

Re:I can't blame them one bit

[illegalcortex]

I'm going to need to see you'RE grammar license, sir.

Oh, the ironing!

Re:This is bad for the public image of Linux and O

[spun]

Want to know one of the main stumbling blocks to further widespread adoption of Linux?

Like have time to answer that for you. You know how to google, don't you? RTFA! Damn newbs.

Re:stupid users

[QuantumRiff]

Why? After all, the geek campaign to convince people to not use the word "HACKER" to mean a malicious computer attacker was so successful, right?

Sorry, couldn't resist!

Re:this great

[PTBarnum]

Indeed, having fan boys call people up to ridicule them is unprofessional. Proper, enterprise ready companies just throw chairs.

Re:Advocacy or idiocy, it's all in the approach

[Adambomb]

Or, its advocacy like this that gives idiocy a bad name.

Re:stupid users

[moochfish]

Linux is an OS, not a religion.

Exactly. It is not a religion! The nerve of some people...

I prefer to call it a cult.

Re:stupid users

[stor]

Can we stop doing this now? People around here know that "Linux" is a kernel. We get it. We've gotten it for the past 10 years. Here's the deal: when used in this context - and just about any other - the term "Linux" refers "a Linux distribution". You realize this, right? Of course.

Agreed. People should also stop saying "Bzzzt... wrong". It makes them sound like a pretentious turd.

Cheers,
Stor

Re:stupid users

[el americano]

Bzzzt... wrong!

Worst... comment... ever.

Re:Mod up.

[SashaMan]

Wow, I never thought I would see the words "alabaster dildo hypothesis" in such a cogent and insightful response.

The Cult of Linux

[nbritton]

"How dare you! Linux *is* a religion, the heathens shall repent!"

Yep that about sums up why I use BSD instead. IIRC the saying goes something like... "Linux Is for People Who Hate Microsoft, BSD Is for People Who Love UNIX"

Re:stupid users

[civilizedINTENSITY]

Technically correct, you admit, but then you make an argument for the "popular" but admittedly technically *incorrect* answer. You must be in management!

Re:stupid users

[Hal_Porter]

But IEC, IEEE, GNAA, CIPM [wikipedia.org], the Magnetic Disk Manufacturers Association all recommend Kibi-Mebi-Gibi prefixes for binary.

Anyhow, Mebibytes sounds whimsically Scottish to me

"Darnt tooch tha dawggie"
"Why?"
"He Mebibytes"

More to the point, it's good to move the goalposts now that the damn Neurotypicals have finally learnt Kilo-Mega-Giga as the prefix.

Re:The Cult of Linux

[BlueTrin]

is the fact that these users will put !#/bin/bash at the start of their shell scripts, and write scripts with no bash-specific syntax.

I just put echo off

Re:stupid users

[iwan-nl]

Who cares what Joe Sixpack thinks a hacker is?

At job interviews, I always mention "hacking" as one of my interests. If the interviewer reacts shocked or confused, I know I don't want to work for that company. I've been escorted out by security more than once.