A touch of “Green” first up as a measure of respect to the people of Iran.

Now.  To address the heading of this article, I’ll outright sum my own view on this in two sentences.

The threat to Linux is not Mono.  The threat to Linux remains, after all these years, the fanboys and FOS fruits who hold it tighter to their heaving bosoms than a distressed four year old desperately clutches “blanky”.

The way these guys get worked up you’d think it was over something that really matters.  Geez, like I dunno – civilians being slaughtered in Iran perhaps?  Some of the terrifying video footage of people dying in Iran before our eyes – that’s something to get worked up over!!

But Technewsworld is reporting the “real news” story is about the outrage among FOS Geeks and violation of Mono on Linux?

That’s right – the Fanboy Linux geeks are hopping mad.  Like – the worst thing that can happen, the most hideous thing they can imagine in their sheltered, pathetic self interested, cubicle – or bedroom – constrained lives is whether or not Mono is a secret threat to Linux.  A – eyes darting nervously under tin foil hats – conspiracy by Microsoft to “PWN” them.

I mean – the definition of disinterested, disconnected, dysfunctional, dislocated, disincarnate  assholes – I ran temporarily ran out appropriate “dis” words – has to be these guys. These are guys – which includes gal’s I should hasten to add, about whom one has to wonder if their girlfriends – or boyfriends – last name actually does end in .Gif

Seriously!

They need to get a grip – and not of the patently obvious bulge they possess – and get a life!

The irony of course is that they are “PWNed”  by a man who they really should be concerned about – Stallman The Stultifier.

“Free Software is a meritocracy — those who do things earn respect,” asserted one, Schroder. “Until the anti-Mono crowd actually make a contribution to Free Software, they will continue to be treated as cranks — and their questions left unanswered.” wrote someone responding.

Free Software May Or May Not Be Meritocracy.  But Frothing At The Mouth Over It Has To Be Mediocrity.

I mean – it’s a forensic psychiatrists wet dream!  I’m sure they’ve got a whole swathe of tests they can perform on these guys that would give them enough information to write a life time of dissertations, peer papers and paperback books.

But the comment that grabbed me – mostly because it is truly accurate – from a Jason Knight was:

“”So many of them throw around the word freedom without understanding what freedom is — they’re all for freedom so long as you don’t disagree with them…” and also from Knight “News flash, freedom is about the ability to CHOOSE, and if I CHOOSE to use an open system based on a closed one, or GOD FORBID a closed one, that’s my choice.”

Nail on the head!

To offer a quote from a counter perspective of a geek that is “outraged” at the prospect of – gulp – Mono on Linux: Radu-Cristian Fotescu on Planete Beranger writes “I can’t comment on it, as I don’t want to read it again. It hurts my guts.”

Which kind of proves the point of the headline of this article really!

But then this nonsense is gushed by the “Pirate Party” ‘I’m Advocating Civil Disobedience’ in yet another cheesy FOS Fandom thread on the same subject.

This is a joke, guys.  You can’t really be this worked up can you?  Really?  I mean, take a look around you.  The world at large needs your help.  There are some really serious issues out there that need addressing, how about using your “freedom” to assist some of the oppressed and slaughtered innocents we see, not just in this weeks flavor of the media Iran, but worldwide, year in, year out, 24 bloody seven!

Struth!

Scott Kane

Quote of the day:
There are more fools in the world than there are people. – Heinrich Heine

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