gnu=borg - discuss

[worker201]

Somebody here at Microsuck has this signature:

WE ARE THE GNU! LOWER YOUR COSTS AND OPEN YOUR SOURCE. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE, YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.

Personally, I don't think this is how GNU feels.  And as an open-source proponent, it is certainly not how I feel.  There may be a couple people out there who talk shit with no reason.  But that is no reason to dump on the GNU.  GNU is a loosely aligned group of people who write good software.  As far as I know, they only thing they have ever done as a group is set up an ftp mirror.

Comments?

[Lead Head]

Skyman?

[xyle_one]

The person who has that sig isn't important. The post was about whether or not the GNU is as bad as the sig implies. It seems to me that Microsoft is more akin to the borg than open source software and ideals. If you don't like the direction a certain software package is heading, you can take it and do whatever you want with it, on your own terms. I see no assimilating going on there.

[DBX_5]

The signature skyman has is for 'trol material only' apperantly you have been sucked into the trap worker201. DFTEC which means 'don't feed the energy creature'
just don't reply to troll things which is what skyman wants. The only way to avoid being a troll hunter is to not respond to troll posts (like kintaro's here
http://www.microsuck.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9553
 which we have done a good job at not replying)

[xyle_one]

Hey, I uh, don't think worker201 is actually trying to talk about skyman...

[DBX_5]

Hey, I uh, don't think worker201 is actually trying to talk about skyman...

please. just please. Don't play the cards.

[xyle_one]

What are you talking about?
Stop trolling this thread.

[worker201]

Actually, skyman is an efriend of mine, and we have discussed issues of gnu and open source and Linux vs Windows extensively in our spare time.  I don't care too much for his signature, and what it implies.  But I wanted other people's opinions, and perhaps a little bit of discussion.  So thanks for the trolling.

[Aloone_Jonez]

DBX_5 please stop going around accusing people of trolling as in doing so you're trolling yourself.

[skyman8081]

DBX, Drop it!

As for my sig, it is a light-hearted poke at how The hypothetical "GNU Operating system" is kludged from various things, such as how the Borg is a loose amalgamation of various species. Any individual accomplishment by a free software app is wholesale blanketed to all of the FSF movement "Another victory for free software!", indeed a situation of "Your biological and technological distictiveness will be added to our own". And how a lot of the GNUsaders I have talked to want EVERY peice of software under the GPL, "resistance is futile, you will be assimilated."

If anything, MS is Species 8472, very dense, and just melts through anything. If it makes you feel better, I equate the GNU movement with TNG-era borg, and not the ones from Voyager. I don't put all of open source under it, just the die-hard GPL nuts.

It's just a sig, get over it!



PS.  I'm a Warsie.

[DBX_5]

HEY!!!!!
i am not the one making a fuss about it. im just pointing out something obviously somebody didnt portray to the world properly.
I always knew skyman's sig was a joke, (I believe a user PMd' him about it once) it is more of a conversation piece I know it, and you have made me :nothappy: by acusing me of getting over it when was already over..

btw- skyman thankyou for the interesting reading on species 8472 .
For those newbies who have no idea, refer to this link
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Rampart/3448/species8472.html

[DBX_5]

It's just a sig, get over it!

I wish I could of said that for Mr X , you would of understood.

[skyman8081]

MrX was just an idiot jackass with a 500x500 image.

Mine is one line of text.

Whats the problem?

[KernelPanic]

Thread Cleansed.
DBX take note, your shit will not be tolerated in this forum.

[Pathos]

How can you not read that sig and not laugh?