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Newsletters - 10 TechJobs - 11 Slashdot Broadband 12 Search 13 X IFRAME: 14 pos1 15 Welcome to Slashdot 16 The Internet 17 Security 18 Windows 19 Programming 20 Television 21 Login 22 Why Login? Sections 24 Main 25 Apache 26 Apple 27 Askslashdot 28 Books 29 BSD 1 more 30 Developers 1 more 31 Games 11 more 32 Interviews 33 Science 2 more 34 YRO Help 35 FAQ 36 Bugs Stories 37 Old Stories 38 Old Polls 39 Topics 40 Hall of Fame 41 Submit Story 42 About 43 Supporters 44 Code 45 Awards Services 46 Broadband 47 Online Books 48 PriceGrabber 49 Product News 50 Tech Jobs This discussion has been archived. Change The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. More like Openly Racist (Score:-1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10, @06:35PM ( 55 #3499732) The Open Source movement, otherwise known as 'Free Software', has been a topic of considerable debate on the Internet's most controversial site. The majority of this debate has centered around the technical merits of the software, with the esteemed editors argueing against adopting Linux by employing the full depth of their considerable intellects, and the other side hurling death threats and similar invective. This has allowed many who would not otherwise receive quality information about Open Source software to be made aware of many of its ramifications, but one issue has been left alone: The overt racism that is deeply embedded in the movement. Absolutely not, none of those names sound like one a self-respecting black person would have! There are many other lists such as this, you can see one here. Flip through each page, do you see anything other than white faces? Of course you don't, because Open Source and its adherents are ardent racists and they absolutely forbid access to the sacred 'kernel' by any person of color. Lets look at another list, this time a compendium of the companies using Linux. They all have something to do with Open Source software, any of them owned by an African-American? Here is an extensive collection of photographs from a LUG (Linux User Gathering) meeting, more can be viewed at that link. What is odd about these pictures, and every other photograph I have ever seen of a LUG meeting, is that there is not one single black person to be seen, and probably none for miles. More racist overtones can be found by examining the language of Open Source. These 'white hats' scurry about the Internet doing good, but illegal, acts for their fellow man. They destroy the good works of others by breaking into systems, stealing data, and generally causing havoc. These two terms reflect the mindset of most Linux developers. Anywhere there is black, there is uncontrollable destruction and lawlessness. Looking further we see black lists that inform other users of 'bad' hardware, Samba, an obvious play on the much hated Little Black Sambo book, Mandrake, which I won't explain except to say that the French are notorious racists. This type is linguistic discrimination is widespread throughout the Open Source culture, lampooned by many of its more popular sites. It is also a fact that all Unix 'distros' contain a plethora of racist commands with not so hidden symbolism. It can hardly be coincidence that the prime operating system of choice of the 'open source supremacists' - Linux, features commands which are poorly disguised racist acronyms. For example: 'awk' (All White Klan) , 'sed' (shoot nEgroes dead), 'ln' (lynch negroes), 'rpm' (raical purity mandatory), 'bash' (bring a slave home), 'ps' (persecute sambo), 'mount' (murder or unseat nubians today), 'fsck' (favored supreme Christian klan). I could go on and on about the latent racist symbolism in Linux, but I fear it would take weeks to enumerate every incidence. Is there a single unix command out there that does not have some hidden racist connotation ? Suffice it to say that the racism pervades Linux like a particularly bad smell. Can you imagine the effect of running such a racist operating system on the impressionable mind ? I don't have to remind you that transmitting subliminal messages is banned in the USA, and yet here we have an operating system that appears to be one enormous submliminal ad for the Klan! One of the few selling points of Open Source software is that it is available in many different languages. Browsing through the list I see that absolutely none are offered in Swahili, nor Ebonics. Obviously this is done to prevent black people from having access to the kernel. If it weren't for the fact that racism is so blatantly evil I would be impressed by the efforts these Open Sourcers have invested in keeping their little hobby lilly white. It even appears that they hate the Japanese, as some of these self proclaimed hackers defaced a web site with anti-Japanese slogans. Hell, these people even go all the way to Africa (South Africa mind you, better known as White Africa) and the pictures prove that they don't even get close to a black person. Of course, presenting overwhelming evidence such as this is a bit unfair without some attempt to determine why these Open Sourcers are so racist. Much of the evidence I have collected indicates that their views are so deeply held that they are seldom questioned by the new recruits. This, coupled with the robot-like groupthink that dominates the culture allows the racist mindset to continue to permeate the ranks. Indeed, the Open Source version of a Klan rally, OSDN (known to the world as Open Source Developer's Network, known to insiders as Open Source Denies Negroes) nearly stands up and shouts its racist views on its demographics page. Obviously, anyone involved with Open Source doesn't need to be told that the demographic is entirely white, it is a given. I have a sneaking suspicion as to why their beliefs are so closely held: they are all terrible athletes. Much like the tragedy at Columbine High School, where two geeks went on a rampage to get back at 'jocks', these adult geeks still bear the emotional scars inflicted upon them due to their lack of athletic ability during their teen years. As African-Americans are well known for their athletic skills, they are an obvious target for the Open Source geeks. As we all know, sports builds character, thus it follows that the lack of sports destroys character. These geeks, locked away in their rooms, munching on stale pizza and Fritos, engage in no character building activities. Further, they interact only with computers and never develop the level of social skill that allows normal people to handle relationships with persons of color. Contrasted with the closed source, non-geeky software house Microsoft, Open Source has a long, long way to go. Starting Score: -1 points Extra 'Troll' Modifier 0 Total Score: -1 Ahhh. We're humbled that you chose to visit our little corner of the Internet. Search Simply a matter of work All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.
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