Flipping the Linux switch: Myths about Linux
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| There are a lot of funny, preconceived notions about Linux (and Linux users).
| Some ideas fall in to the realm of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt). Some ideas
| have an inkling of truth to them, and have grown and mutated into full
| fledged myths. Sort of like how Vlad the Impaler became Dracula, but with a
| lot less violence and a lot more compiling.
|
| Some of the myths may even be stopping you from trying Linux. You want to try
| it, sure... but it's too hard or can't do what you need or you're not a
| hacker.
|
| Let's lay some myths to rest today. Pitchforks, torches and garlic are
| optional.
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| Myth: Linux is hard.
|
| [...]
|
| Myth: If it's free (in cost), there must be something wrong with it.
|
| [...]
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| Myth: Linux users are anti-Microsoft.
|
| [...]
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| Myth: Linux can't handle multimedia files.
|
| [...]
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| Myth: Linux means re-installing my whole system. If I hate it... Then what?
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http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/01/24/flipping-the-linux-switch-myths-about-linux/
Related:
Myths Stymie Linux Growth
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| Regardless of the advantages offered by Linux, no one seems to be adopting it
| wholeheartedly in the business world. What makes that even more fascinating
| is that the backlash against Windows Vista is not reason enough to fuel the
| move to Linux.
|
| The problem here is that the powers that be have created enough FUD (fear,
| uncertainty and doubt) about Linux that most decision makers feel it is safer
| to stick with Windows (including XP). That FUD is fueled by many myths and
| misconceptions about what Linux can and cannot do.
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http://www.channelinsider.com/article/Myths+Stymie+Linux+Growth/220508_1.aspx
Are Linux users really a feral bunch?
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| It is, however, uncommon for a writer to set out to deliberately provoke
| Linux users with over-the-top stuff - just to prove his contention that said
| users are a bunch of ferals.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15198/1091/
How Not to Treat Your Readership
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| Given how the technology and methods the Linux community uses are constantly
| villified, ridiculed, and held in contempt by competitors; by ill-informed IT
| professionals and hobbyists; and now by journalists who use lies and
| outrageous comments to hold the community's response up for ridicule--is it
| any wonder why the community is so defensive in their responses?
|
| That's not a justification of bad behavior, but it certainly puts such
| responses in another light.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-10-26-025-26-OP-CY
http://slated.org/linux_still_doesnt_make_it_on_desktop_is_pure_fud
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03096.pdf
German and US researchers lay low, question just how far new law will go
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| Moore notes that most Linux distros are now illegal in Germany as well,
| because they include the open-source nmap security scanner tool -- and some
| include Metasploit as well.
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http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=132255&WT.svl=news1_5
>From Zero to Holy $&*#!
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| What if Linux and Free and Open Source Software became illegal to use due
| to “national security?” Never mind the fact that the American military uses
| it. Never mind the fact that Microsoft funded both political parties in the
| year 2000. Never mind that Richard Stallman has accused Microsoft of
| enabling terrorism in the first place.
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http://nixedblog.thenixedreport.com/?p=55
Top 5 Linux Myths
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| The sheer ignorance regarding casual Linux users astounds me to no end. While
| I'm not interested in pointing fingers, there is a lot of misinformation
| about the Linux community, and we will help to dispel some of these myths,
| once and for all.
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| 1. Linux Users Are Cheap. Ah, this is one of my favorites. It seems that
| Linux users have long since been seen as cheap, despite the fact that so many
| of them in the States earn up to six figures. First, define cheap? Are we
| cheap because we choose not to buy brand new everything with every release of
| our selected OS?
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2618&Itemid=449
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| "After a long and arduous journey that included a suspended validation last
| year .. OpenSSL has regained its FIPS 140-2 validation"
|
| "We called it the FUD campaign," he says. "There were all kinds of
| complaints sent to the CMVP including one about 'Commie code.' .. Silly or
| no, each complaint that's filed really slows down the process."
|
| "the ones they did see often contained redacted, or blacked-out, data about
| who had filed the complaint .. in some cases, proprietary software vendors
| were lodging the complaints.
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http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/08/1935232
Tech writers think Ubuntu is for morons
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| What is it about Ubuntu Linux that makes otherwise competent technical
| writers switch to Moron Mode? Everywhere I turn, I see articles on how to do
| obvious things in Ubuntu. Books on Ubuntu concentrate on listing every
| insignificant detail of every obvious procedure; things that are inherently
| self-explanatory are explained in depth. Subjects that have any inkling of
| technical complexity are skipped because, "Whoa -- those are way too hard for
| you stupid Ubuntu users to grasp, so let's just skip them and pretend
| everything's peachy."
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http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/340
The commie smear against open source
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| Because proprietary companies will always spend more of their
| money on marketing than open source outfits, it pops up regularly
| in the best of places, such as at Time Magazine recently. Or
| Microsoft sends CEO Steve Ballmer to London, so he can rant
| about how his lawyers are going to make all Linux users pay
| Microsoft for their stuff.
|
| It's nonsense.
|
| This is not "the gift economy," as Justin Fox calls it in Time.
| This is people taking advantage of the fact that the Internet
| has no distribution costs, which means marketing costs can
| also sink to zero. No ads in Time doesn't make you a communist.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=946
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