[Tfug] Alan Cox: "I've had enough"--what else is new?

[Tyler Kilian]

Hold your breath all...I totally, 150% agree with Bowie.  Extra props  
for the "I eat filth from my foot but that's okay because I run  
Linux" video.

Tyler

On Jul 31, 2009, at 3:42 PM, bpoag at comcast.net wrote:

>
>
> I do try. :)
>
> Seriously. And yes, I mean seriously, a number of us would be well- 
> suited to start to think of "free Unix" as something other than  
> Linux, something other than mucking around with GNU tools. You know  
> how economists always take forever to acknowledge the obvious, like  
> that we're in a recession? Same thing applies here. We're in a post- 
> Linux era, now. It simply no longer makes sense to declare a  
> "movement", and then watch it fumble around without direction.
>
> The Linux era ended when we had no answer for Vista's awkward  
> silence. Vista face-planted on the stage, and the spotlight quickly  
> moved over to Linux. And what did we have? Nothing. Two divergent  
> projects that weren't ready for prime-time with near-zero high  
> quality commercially-supported software to make the switch  
> desirable enough.
>
> Worse, people are beginning to realize that code developed under  
> the open source model isn't immune to the same "shelf life"  
> principles that closed-source code suffers from. I mean, think  
> about it. All the code people wrote even 6 or 7 years ago when  
> Linux was still more or less a quietly cool thing people did for  
> fun....Practically none of it works anymore, at least without  
> uprooting and fundamentally screwing your installation by  
> interspersing it with old library versions, patches and hacks. It  
> was all for naught.
>
> Who wants to do that?
>
> I have a hackintosh now. It's BSD, it's kernel is free, and it's  
> fun.. It is, IMHO, what Unix should be, and what a constantly pissy/ 
> disagreeable herd of cats like the Linux community will never, by  
> its very nature, ever be able to produce.
>
> Cheers,
> Bowie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Roberts" <deepspace at dataswamp.net>
> To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 12:50:18 PM GMT -07:00 U.S. Mountain  
> Time (Arizona)
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Alan Cox: "I've had enough"--what else is new?
>
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Bowie J. Poag<bpoag at comcast.net>  
> wrote:
>
> > The whole free software movement has been tainted with this sort  
> of crap.
> > It's always has been the case for the Linux movement as well,  
> even from its
> > earliest days.
> >
> > Oh, by the way, here's a video of Richard Stallman sitting down  
> on stage,
> > pulling his sock off, and eating his toe cheese. These are your  
> "leaders".
>
> The way you left Linux can only be described as cinematic.  Walking
> away from a big dark building in slow motion, pulling your collar up,
> cigarette danging out of your mouth, only to be flicked back toward
> the building.  The camera zooms in on the lit cigarette tumbling
> through the air in slow-mo, only to land in a puddle of gasoline, when
> suddenly BOOM, the entire building goes up, but you don't look back.
> No dammit, you just...you just walk on, past hot chicks in leather
> pants looking lustfully at you in your duster and popped collar, the
> building a hellish inferno behind you...
>
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