Iron Man vs Mark Shuttleworth?!?

Conrad Knauer atheoi at gmail.com
Mon Apr 14 14:15:04 BST 2008


http://blogs.computerworld.com/linux_evil_mwah_ha_ha_ha_ha

Bulk of article:

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I'll admit that I'm not a Marvel Comics fan (color me Vertigo), but
this one's got me genuinely stumped: Iron Man is fighting the dark
forces of Linux. That's direct from the writer's mouth, in fact --
Matt Fraction (how's that for a great comic-book name?), the fellow
scripting the new Invincible Iron Man series debuting next month, had
this to say concerning arch-villain Zeke Stane to an interviewer at
Comic Book Resources:

Zeke is a post-national business man and kind of an open source
ideological terrorist... He has absolutely no loyalty to any sort of
law, creed, or credo. He doesn't want to beat Tony Stark, he wants to
make him obsolete. Windows wants to be on every computer desktop in
the world, but Linux and Stane want to destroy the desktop.

Go ahead, make that make sense. (Heck, make that make for a decent
comic book.) Stane's a security threat because he's running Linux?
Stane's agenda is developed by a worldwide group of evildoers? Stane
is remarkably virus-resistant but takes forever to whomp up a driver?
Stane names his evil schemes things like "Garrulous Giraffe?" What the
heck is Fraction trying to tell us here?!
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Perhaps that he owns Microsoft stock? ;)

CK



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