I’ve said it many times before, it’s the freetards who write the content of this site, and here’s the proof.
This TM is based on an email I received via the contact form. Someone who didn’t take the time to read the About page took a phenomenal amount of time to write how ironic they thought my use of open source software was.
I guess they don’t understand that I’m pragmatic about open source and free software; I’ll use it if it’s good. The issue I have is with the community that tells me otherwise; A community of goofballs telling me I should have written the site in ASP and run it on IIS.
Here’s the full transcript:
Look who’s all whiny about Free stuff. Someone who uses django. It’s a Free project too(IF you don’t know) and django uses Python which is also Free. I capitalized free because it’s not the normal free that you know about. I won’t go on to length of discussing that here, it’s just that I think you should migrate to at least using IIS+ASP for this site! What a dumb way to say that all the Freetards are lying while using the things that Freetards are talking about! If you want to flam the religious people who say Linux is better without any logical and correct reason DO SO WITHOUT using the freaking word Free! Because you are using it by yourself to begin with and it’d be a shame to call it inferior(seriously, after what you’ve wrote on your site I tend to think that you use totally aweseome -on-click-self-hosting-website- software) and I know django isn’t one!
So learn your first lesson, don’t use what you flame!
And I certainly know after using Ubuntu for a while that how it feels to be running an OS that just works which does not have full device support out of the box, well Windows 7 needs separate installable drivers for that being a big ass 8gb stock installation it doesn’t even come up with basic drivers for most hardware, and no Office packages canonical fits all that in a CD why cant MS? That’s what I am on about WHY can’t MS at least try when we PAY? Do they? No if they were we won’t be having this much freetards and we won’t have people propagating "the year of the linux desktop" in every year in the past few years. It doesn’t even have a proper commercial company to back it up yet all major software companies wanna make their stuff work with it —even-microsoft—
I think you gotta learn a few things about Unix system security and what a multi-user environment really does and how it enforces security.
I do not think that you are from a computing background of any kind, other than self hosting a website on django. Well excuse my ignorance you haven’t listed anything about you. Yea, you fight FUD with what? Are you at least a computer science degree holder? People can make FUD because they are just lamers, but people who fight FUD can’t be lamers, that’d be lamers fighting lamers.
Last, why can’t Microsoft offer systems that are truly multi user? Why can’t they give us on-click installations? Why can’t they be just better than a freaking free project that people started out to do in their free time? Why can’t they make a better server platform that IS the most popular server platform? Like their desktop? Well they answer is simple, it’s easier to trick normal users but it’s not that easy to trick a little bit computer literate people.
PS: And oh why do I see a freaking server OS running a GUI? Does anyone keep looking at it while all that dialog boxes and shit are actively running on it?
Nice website dude, I hope MS pays you for this. :) I just wrote this in my Free time—just for fun
Comments
What, no calculus?
Oh my, that is just precious.
It’s like they want to PROVE this site is right.
Entirely unrelated, but this reminds me of a discussion I had some time ago. My argument basically was: “Philosophy is not a science, at least not according to Popper!”
Rage and hilarity ensued.
Lol, that’s great.
Truly multi-user… What do they mean by that exactly? I searched “Windows 7 multi-user” on Bing (yeah! take THAT freetard) and found this: http://www.blogsdna.com/2336/enable-multiple-user-accessconcurrent-user-sessions-for-remote-desktop-on-windows-7.htm
They never seem to get it though… I have never said that open source sucks all together, and all we are simply saying is that open source is not the answer to everything.
Besides, when it comes to content management systems (and other web frameworks), open source stuff is really good. As I have said on binplay.com before, its likely due to the fact that such projects are very small in comparison to that of Linux distros, so it is easy to manage and maintain. Not only that, but many times the developers aren’t open source fanatics, they are just people who decided to have the system open source. After all, if you’re putting it up on the Internet, it will become open source either way ;-)
“I do not think that you are from a computing background of any kind[...]”
You have no nerd cred!
“Are you at least a computer science degree holder?”
I said nerd cred!
“People can make FUD because they are just lamers[...]”
Nerd cred!
Seriously, I think this guy must have got his head dunked into a toilet bowl by bullies one too many times.
> searched “Windows 7 multi-user” on Bing (yeah! take THAT freetard)
But netcraft thinks Bings runs on Linux:
http://searchdns.netcraft.com/?host=bing.com
That and the whole story with qq.com took out any credibility I had for netcraft. I still think that LAMP is dominant in serving web pages (there are just too many of doorways, homepages “under construction” and other garbage which doesn’t require any real complex server systems).
As for rant in question – same FiveMonkeys “fighting” against DOS/Windows95 with same old faulty arguments (security, multi-user, servers, etc). Does it deserve its own TM?
Full disclosure: I’ve got my paycheck from Microsoft last week, so I have to shill here a bit.
I think we’re about due BingRunsOnLinux™ any time now. I’m just waiting for Poggo to come out with it … It would be funnier coming from SJVN, but he’s nowhere near silly enough.
I don’t know why this guy keeps going on and on about Microsoft. Just because I’m turning the mirror on the FOSS community doesn’t means I’m suddenly a Microsoft expert.
I don’t think it will be BingRunsOnLinux™, but more like BingCopiesGooglesResults™.
“I just wrote this in my Free time—just for fun”
Sooo
His time is worthless huh?
Is it me, or are FOSSoids getting dumber lately?
Based on how he talks, I assume it’s a kid. A new inductee into FOSStardia. Dazzled by the hype and not yet privy to any of the problems.
Heh… I love how he knows how it feels to use an OS that just works… that being Ubuntu. I wish that this was the truth, but the fact is that Ubuntu never “just works”. I have a laptop that is several years old, and a desktop that is just barely a year old, and Ubuntu—nor any Linux—“just works”. There is always some piece of hardware that is screwed because of piss poor driver support, or some piece of software that I wind up needing that Linux cannot/will not run.
Now, I will say that I have picked up various open sauce software over the years that gets the job done, but never an open sauce OS. Open Sauce is great for small, specific needs appkications, but when it comes to the nuts and bolts of making a computer run from top to bottom, it isn’t going to happen, especially from a community who has no idea how much hard work, time, and effort is involved.
I’d put this rant right up there with Linux Journal’s rant.
+1
If the spelling weren’t so bad, the grammer so poor and the direction of the conversation less random, I might think this was a new copy-pasta diatribe.
But no, someone took the time to write this…in their free (as in freedom?) time.
Well, he did capitalize “Free.”
It’s pretty awesome to think that kids these days are so well-organised that they have “study” time, “free” time and “time dedicated to trolling the Internet on behalf of Canonical.”
Ah, the golden comments (oh wait, this was a letter), let us see now:
“So learn your first lesson, don’t use what you flame!”
Because obviously, using it means you cannot complain… this comes from the belief that FOSS authors must be paid by sucking up to them – it’s clear they believe products should be paid with emotions, too bad programmers can’t eat, live-in or pay with said emotions.
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“And I certainly know after using Ubuntu for a while that how it feels to be running an OS that just works…”
Is he talking about Windows here?
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“...well Windows 7 needs separate installable drivers…”
The ole’ driver CDs complaint, it must be great to live in the past.
Over here, in the present, Windows installed drivers all by itself (most of them before even connecting to the net – not that it matters).
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“...and no Office packages…”
Most people only need WordPad, it installs by default… with Windows.
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“I think you gotta learn a few things about Unix…”
YouDontKnowLinux/Unix™ – if these idiots ever read the Unix Haters Handbook…
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“Why can’t they give us on-click installations?”
Like drag’n’drop archive extraction – you still have to double click on the .exe and then pin it to the superbar/startmenu – when will the glorious OS of Durden finally start to support software that wasn’t specifically compiled for the given version of a given distro (on a scale from “never” to “not a chance”, please)?
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“Why can’t they be just better than a freaking free project that people started out to do in their free time?”
Well, given the fact that Windows is still better, even after billions of IBM’s, Sun’s and others’ money has been poured into the Durden pit of the cess, I’d say they are doing pretty well.
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“And oh why do I see a freaking server OS running a GUI?”
I wonder what they’ll say when Windows Server starts supporting natural user interfaces (like Kinect) – the lulz will be epic.
I guess the seventies were really wonderful for these people, why do they bother with the new shiny, why not just use an emulator of some old Unix… oh wait, they are (facepalms).
“So learn your first lesson, don’t use what you flame!”
He doesn’t get that I use plenty of open source software, but only the good stuff. The whole point of this site was to point out FOSStards claiming that all FOSS software was good when it wasn’t.
“...and no Office packages…”
Don’t tell him but I can install OpenOffice on Windows as well.
“And oh why do I see a freaking server OS running a GUI?”
Does he think that Windows is running a GUI when nobody is logged in? I can run Gnome or KDE on any Linux “server” distro so I don’t really get his point.
“Don’t tell him but I can install OpenOffice on Windows as well.”
You can also reformat the partition – equally useful, methinks.
Truth is, most people either have an OEM version of Office preinstalled, or can access it through their job/school/whatever (be it for free or at significant discount)... or are simply pirating it.
MS Office is thus insignificant price wise and often (mostly?) preinstalled – hence it’s the exact same thing as DOo/LO/OOo in DurdenOS.
Well, it’s not exactly the same – MS Office actually works.
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