Linux! Evil! MWAH HA HA HA HA!!!

It is easy to cast FOSS in a

It is easy to cast FOSS in a bad light, making Linux users terrorists and such. It is also very easy to demonstrate the opposite. This is the perfect vehicle for a redemption story- it is really easy to go light on technical details and heavy on philosophy with an open source debate. After any comparison of ethics and philosophy, open source wins. If the inclusion of Linux is incidental, that is one thing. If there is any exploration of motivations, open source will end up looking good.

Next episode IronMan fights the peguin

Next episode IronMan fights the peguin

first Cpt. America, now Linux?

First they killed Captian America, now their going after Linux!

There seems to be a misunderstanding about Linux that its somehow 'Un-American'.

Linux is about as un-American as 'We The People' or 'E Pluribus Unum'. Anyone who knows what an old fashioned barn raising is would understand the ideas behind open source in a heartbeat!

Think about Linux's chief competitor. One top down solution for your problems. Lock in to file types using government granted patents. There are problems? Do not worry the glorious leadership has announced a new 5 year plan that will solve all problems and make your life happy. For now continue the daily struggle to use the current system while the leadership earns their bonuses. Your problems will be solved in the next version. The sun will come out tomorrow.

Did you know Microsoft's address is One Microsoft Way?

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Linux! Evil! MWAH HA HA HA HA!!!

Although articles such as this should be taken with a pinch of salt, other intresting points should be considered.

The US government controls most, but not all, of what is published in America today (or at the very least has direct access to the people that do). Just as propaganda by Joseph Goebbels and the Nazis infiltrated pre-WWII Germany, so we see it happening in America today.

Something as seemingly innocent as a comic strip had its own meaning. Little by little, piece by piece the frog in boiling water scenario is being played out for all to see. The problem is people do not see because they simply choose not to see, even when it's too late.

'The War On Terror','The War On Drugs' and 'The War On
...{insert soundbyte here}' are nothing more than Nazi era propaganda with a modern twist.

The USA and the rest of the world need a bogieman to rally against. Be that islamic fundamentalism, environmentalists, the scientific truths of our time, some third world despot etc (North Korea, Iran, Syria).

So a swipe by a government mandated monopoly Mega-Corporation at one of its major competitors, why not?

I doubt Microsoft would be so crass as to pay a mere Comic publisher to print this stuff. But then again I thought they would not be so blatent in trying to get OOXML ratified and fast tracked by ISO...

...guess I'm just as blind and naive as everyone else!

Who cares for Marvel anyway?

Who cares? Marvel comics with their idiotic super heroes has always been brain dead crap for the same kind of people who watch show wrestling, or are just all too young to have a good taste or any understanding about things.

I bet some people at Marvel were just too stupid to figure out what Linux is, not to mention using or even installing it? Or someone at Marvel got some extra cash from a certain software monopolist to mock open source?

If you want to read good long comics stories (not just short newspaper strips), you better look for European ones anyway.

I'm stuck right in the

I'm stuck right in the middle of this.

-I read (and "grew up" Marvel)
-I'm too lazy to learn Linux.
-Dad worked his way out of the ghetto- as an IBM salesman, (Then saw the corporate greed and fiscal holocaust of the 80's and 90's).
-I selectively embrace DIY attitudes and philosophies.

Iron Man is really well written these days. The level of interplay in the current Marvel Universe is brilliant (as anyone who READS THE BOOKS can tell you).
That said, Iron Man/Tony Stark is not a "good guy" or a "bad guy". He's a billionaire, industrialist, play-boy, weapons profiteer. He is all the old institutions in the middle of a change of heart. Imagine if the daughter of some high-powered Coca-cola CEO fell in love with a guy who's parents were killed by anti-union South American muscle. That is how Stark is written. He's amassed power for doing the wrong things for so long that he's having to deconstruct most of his power bases (and ideals) to do what's right. Plus he still tries to do things in the "old ways" because that's what he knows.
An "open source terrorist" is just the kind of sound bite that gets said in an interview that can be read way too much into.For the sake of brevity you sometimes over-simplify things just to get people to listen. Calling Iron Man a crime fighter is like calling Morpheus a dream spirit. Plus the character has been at the center of the last few major story arcs of the Marvel Universe. All of which are super-convoluted but highly detailed and very entertaining. Man I've rambled. Sorry.

Weird, the way hes described

Weird, the way hes described is basically the Open Source philosophy incarnate, his way of life is identical to Open Source's main ethics, so is Ironman essentially fighting himself?? :S Seems that way from this interpretation, how cheesy...
Ironman = Cool look but a dumb F'in plot.

Read the original article

Angela has done us a disservice with this article. It's obvious to see where the author is going. The original article quotes him saying:

“I’m really looking forward to taking Tony on this redemptive arc, where instead of just buying back good favor he earns it back. He’s got some blood on his hands both literally and figuratively. He’s made a lot of right moves and a lot of wrong moves and he’s got a lot of amends to make. I’m looking forward to Tony, the man, becoming a stand up guy again. I’m going to grind him down into the dirt and smash him like a car compactor. He’ll be put through a crucible and we’ll see, when you destroy everything he is, when you take everything away, what’s left? Who is the man left standing? Is he somebody with a life worth living? Someone worth admiring? Someone worth reading about?”

Anyone for mounting lasers on sharks?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/10/torvalds_gpl_drm/

Bad Boy of OSes

I think this could be the best thing that has happened to Linux. Like they say any publicity is good publicity.It will be a wonderful thing if they actually show Zeke Stane using Ubuntu, or talking about it. Think about it, if you tell kids that something is bad they WILL try it.

It is funny that us Linux do-gooders are offended that someone would call our OS evil, maybe it is because we feel that Microsoft is the real evil empire.