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Rule number one: don't jump to hasty conclusions!
Posted Jun 18, 2004 6:17 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
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I'm afraid you are jumping to conclusions! The name mentioned in the invisible comments of the page seems to be only the guy who designed the HTML template for the blog system in question, and probably not in charge of the contents. Besides his home page and some googling left me with the impression he is a well-regarded professional web designer, and not one likely to do anonymous anti-Linux trolling.
Kommander Looks to Shake Up the Desktop (KDE.News)
Posted Jun 18, 2004 11:42 UTC (Fri) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814)
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OMG! That website is just too funny :D
Kommander Looks to Shake Up the Desktop (KDE.News)
Posted Jun 18, 2004 12:29 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
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Learn the truth about Linux.
http://linspiracy.blogspot.com/
Of course, that Web site is powered by Apache on Linux. Must be a conspiracy or something...
Kommander Looks to Shake Up the Desktop (KDE.News)
Posted Jun 18, 2004 13:40 UTC (Fri) by penguinwarrior (guest, #20672)
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good eye! yah, go to netcraft and see he is running linux on apache while watching soap operas and sitting in his yugo. it also shows he has wet himself and his personal 'up' time borders on nil....
as my daughter says when IM with her friends,
lol.
Kommander Looks to Shake Up the Desktop (KDE.News)
Posted Jun 18, 2004 15:24 UTC (Fri) by dbhost (guest, #3461)
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An anonymous blog, by an anonymous author, thrown out to the public by an anonymous comment. And this is to show us the "truth". As Robin once might have said... Holy Redmond Batman! The F.U.D. spreader is creeping in again!
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Posted Jun 18, 2004 19:04 UTC (Fri) by AnswerGuy (subscriber, #1256)
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This thread is so wildly off-topic that I think it should be removed from this section. I clicked on the comments to read about Kommander.
Now, to stave off accusations of censorship and conspiracy I'd propose moving this thread to its own story: "Sowing Astroturf on LWN"
I have to wonder if this blog and posting were the work of Ken Brown himself? They don't have to be, any idiot could have done it. However, it would be a simple, low-cost, way to help keep the "Samizdat" slur campaign going. Of course he'd have to spam other sites, too. Have links to "linspiracy" started popping up on slashdot? Linux Today? Groklaw?
Whoever this troll is he's only managed about 160 profile views as I'm looking now. That's pretty lame, but that blog have been their less than a month, too.
The main counter-argument to my "Ken Brown is linspiracy" theory is that I'm not sure Ken Brown has the acumen to post to LWN. The guy couldn't even recognize Salus' name while he was alleging to be researching the history of UNIX. Supporting the argument, however, is the poor spelling ("Minux" and "dedacated" for Minux and dedicated respectively --- probably more that I haven't noticed).
JimD
Kommander Looks to Shake Up the Desktop (KDE.News)
Posted Jun 18, 2004 22:15 UTC (Fri) by xorbe (guest, #3165)
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I hope we don't have to suffer this /. style trolling too often. This *is* a pro-Linux site by definition.
Kommander Looks to Shake Up the Desktop (KDE.News)
Posted Jun 20, 2004 2:54 UTC (Sun) by freeid (guest, #22401)
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You sir are an idiot. Is that you darly mcLied? Why do you hide behind an guest acount. Did you know your site is hosted on Linux and open source Apache server? A hipicrite as well. Go suck off darly and bill you loser