Yeah, the Linux fanboys have been editing Wikipedia again. Hopefully one day they’ll follow Conservapedia’s example and form a breakaway “encyclopedia” to spread their lies and propaganda. In the meantime, here’s what they want us to believe:
Reasons to change from other operating systems to Linux include better system stability, virus, trojan, adware and spyware protection, low or no cost, that most distributions come complete with application software and hardware drivers, simplified updates for all installed software, free software licencing, availability of application repositories and access to the source code. Linux also eliminates the need to defragment file systems as it doesn’t store files in a fragmented manner. Linux desktop distributions also offer multiple desktop workspaces, greater customization, free and unlimited support through forums and an operating system that doesn’t slow down over time.
Sounds like one of those “top 10 reasons” shopping lists, don’t it? Another juicy bit of apologetics appears under the “barriers to adoption” section:
A.Y. Siu asserted in 2006 that most people use Windows simply because most PCs come with Windows pre-installed; they didn’t choose it.
Hopefully a brave soul will have the courage to sprinkle some honestly and weed out the weasel words… if he doesn’t get banned by the outraged zealots first.
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I don’t mind if the FUD-sters want to post their shopping lists on their own blogs. But when they start infecting public projects like Wikipedia, that pisses me off.
OK. In what way does Wikipedia differ from FOSS in general?
They worship a different Loon, but that’s all. The underlying motivation is, as far as I can see, identical.
(Excellent FUD, btw.)
Actually, that was quite entertaining. I’ve never realised before (silly me) that when Wikipedia says “citation needed,” the actual 'link’ is of the form {{Fact|date=December 2007}}.
I’m off to post some bogus links to that article. I’d guess they’ll last a day or two. These people are harsh.
(I figured “Added place-holders for citations from the Web” was probably good enough for a while…)
@DrLoser
Take a look at the article writers. One major one in particular, “Ahunt”, has a userpage with, you guessed it, tons of userboxes proclaiming his use of Ubuntu and FOSS. Perhaps we need to bring this to the attention of an admin? This is certainly not NPOV, especially when requesting citations are undone.
@Delano
Indeed.
It was an interesting experiment: precisely three hours and ten minutes later, AHunt “undid” my (quite harmless) revision.
From memory, I believe I added four “citation needed” points. I remember that one of them covered “Reasons to change from other operating systems to Linux include better system stability,” but for the rest — pah!
This is genuine FUD. Apparently Ahunt has nothing better to do than to sit on the end of an RSS feed (or whatever other notification process is involved), turn purple, and yell “Say it ain’t so, Dr Loser!”
I’m standing by my comment.
FOSS === Wikipedia, and Ayn Rand fanatics everywhere.
Incidentally, I’d have tried the undelete/~NPOV option, but have you seen this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review
I have better things to do with my time. In fact, I believe one of my toe-nails is crying out for a clipping.
I suppose that’s kind of how FUD works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_an_MMORPG
Linux has games. Confirmed!
But WikipediaRunsOnLinux™, so they don’t say anything either.
“In January 2001 Microsoft CEO Bill Gates explained the attraction of adopting Linux, in an internal memo that was released in the Comes vs Microsoft case.”
How come that’s the obscure source where Roy gains all his information from as well….
Also like the actual list: apart from Munich it even has gems like Wienux in it: the migration of governmental institutions in Vienna. It was a complete disaster and then actually didn’t happen because a learning program for kindergarten kids would just not run without Internet Explorer. Most of the other entries are :
XXX announced to migrate [several hundreds] workstations from Windows to XXXnux [citation from 20XX] by 20XX.
I wonder what would come out when someone would really go through all the citations and call all the institutions about the success of the migration.
Ah, I also learned that OLPC is a glorious example of Linux adoption and not a perfect example for a total, utter failure as I thought it would be.
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