Ran across this assessment of Linux as Un-American today:
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 [SIC] (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 its 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.
Frankly, I can’t decide if this is somebody’s idea of a joke or if these people are for real, but either way it’s amusing enough to be worth a read.
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…and that’s why the U.S. Government runs on Windows, because God knows Osama and his crowd can’t hack Windows.
Please…
I have this image of the monks from an old Monty Python movie smacking themselves in the head with Linux manuals from those free foreign handouts, chanting as they march like brainwashed sheep into the pit of the terrorist bogeyman under the software bed.
Ballmer thinks it’s cancer ’cause Linux, like the Internet, proves that diversity and non-control generates a lot more creativity than one megacompany thinking it has the monopoly on brillance.
When was the last time Microsoft produced something really interesting, by the way? I thought so…
S.
There’s some discussion here about it, and it does appear the site is satirical. But it’s really hard to tell.
It’s got to be a joke. Besides, there’s a long standing tradition of free software on the net… right?
God, I hope it’s a joke…
I mean, it’s a joke, right?
Right?
Hello?
Of course it’s a joke. The site is hosted on apache on a linux platform. The bragging about the IBM laptop is silly since Thinkpads have always been manufactured in China - they were assembled in the US until they were spun off as Lenovo. Now they’re completely made in China.
Don’t know if this is BS or what but to me it sounds typical Repug thinking. The thing I loved was the bit about Bin Laden having Linux on his laptop. They can’t find him but they know what OP he uses. And my backside is filled with green cheese also.
And you don’t need to hack Windows anyway, the boys just take their laptops home with what ever you want to know and then you “Steal” it. Hell of a lot easier. All you Vet.s out there take note.