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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ SomeBloke on Monday 20 October 2008 16:13 : \____
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>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>> Want to Laugh? Another Tall Tale About Where Linux Came From.
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>>>> | Linux was created by IBM, HP (HPQ) and other former IT systems
>>>> | monopolists that realized that Microsoft was taking their systems
>>>> | monopoly away from them. IBM, HP, Digital Equipment (now part of
>>>> | HP), etc. had banded together for this purpose in the early 1980s
>>>> | while Linus Torvalds, the nominal creator of Linux and who now
>>>> | works for one of the groups IBM, HP, etc. put together for its
>>>> | trust-like purposes, was still in short pants. Ten years later,
>>>> | the consortium chose a small piece of software code, "forked" by
>>>> | Linus from some other code while he was in college, to complement
>>>> | the still ongoing technical development effort by IBM, HP, etc. to
>>>> | come up with "one Unix." What is today called Linux is the result
>>>> | of that one-Unix effort.
>>>> |
>>>> | Isn't that hilarious? To be fair, those Wall Street dudes are likely
>>>> | under a lot of stress nowadays. If he needs a job, maybe he should
>>>> | write a column with "Paul Murphy", who also comes up with his own
>>>> | histories on the birth of Linux. I see a match. Or he could write for
>>>> | ADTI, methinks. They tried to allege that Linus forked Minix, but it's
>>>> | a lie. Anyway, Linus already confessed. The father of Linux is the
>>>> | Tooth Fairy.
>>>> `----
>>>
>>> Not only does the Groklaw article rip Dennis Byron apart but he makes
>>> himself look a complete dolled up prat in the original article. The
>>> comments are particularly acidic!
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>> * OOXML Troll.
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>> http://boycottnovell.com/2008/05/16/dennis-byron-on-digistan/
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>> * Tried to equate free software with terrorism.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/77337-google-ibm-red-hat-sun-and-the-digistan-connection
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>> - --
>> ~~ Best of wishes
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> I love stuff like the above. Denise(sic) Byron is certainly trying to save
> the internet from pollution by left leaning anti MS hippies like you and me
> and everyone else that just refuses to pay for sub standard MS operating
> systems. Lets face it, we should spend a lot of money on major hardware
> upgrades just to run Vista Basic. I want to have a quad core CPU and 8Gb of
> Ram just to run Solitaire as fast as Windows 3.1 ran it on a 80386 CPU and
> 4Mb of Ram.
>
> Yes indeedie.....
He wrote a couple of 'articles' about me to retaliate. He used to work
in Microsoft propaganda powerhouse, also known as IDC.
- --
~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | "In hell, treason is the work of angels"
http://Schestowitz.com | GNU is Not UNIX | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
http://iuron.com - proposing a non-profit search engine
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