Iron Man vs Mark Shuttleworth?!?

[Dylan McCall]

Grr... if anyone is looking to destroy "the desktop", it's Microsoft.
They have become completely absorbed in the business corner of things,
working towards whatever puts money in 'the market'. The destruction
is seemingly unintentional in that case, so probably not a good comic
book plot.
Anyhow, could be interesting to see how they expect to defeat Linux -
a task which is taking Microsoft an eternity - within what looks like
only a few issues. I also wonder why Iron Man cares about pitiful
desktop computing....


Bye,
-Dylan

On 4/14/08, Conrad Knauer <atheoi at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://blogs.computerworld.com/linux_evil_mwah_ha_ha_ha_ha
>
>  Bulk of article:
>
>  ---
>  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?!
>  ---
>
>  Perhaps that he owns Microsoft stock? ;)
>
>  CK
>
>
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