Saturday, January 27, 2007

Erik Funkenbusch

Name: Erik 'the weasel' Funkenbusch

Traits:
  • Microsoft apologist with no peer
  • Spreads FUD about Linux, OSS & GPL (did the same when OS/2 was a threat to Microsoft)
  • Habitual liar
  • When caught lying runs away
  • Will resort to unethical means to denigrate Linux advocates - always fails
  • Funkenbusch is utterly devoid of ethical values
  • Known to cross post to other Linux newsgroups in a futile attempt at causing more disruption
  • Obsessed with Roy Schestowitz
  • Racist (see below regarding 419 scams)
Unanswered FUD from Erik:
  • Where does NTFS store its journal?
  • How did the Morris worm spread by email?
  • What about using MS TT fonts on Linux, why have they to be *only*
    used in Windows?
  • Can he provide evidence for plenty of examples of competing ISO
    standards?
  • What about the "dozens of root exploits per month in linux" he
    claimed, & he was then found to be making it all up?
  • What was the master plan Erik had when he spammed COLA with incipient replies to Roy Schestowitz's [News] posts?
Want to see Erik's ignorance about Linux? Follow this thread:

http://tinyurl.com/323lw4

Quotes:

Security is one of those funny things. You can talk about being "more" secure, but there's no such thing. A vulnerability is a vulnerability, and even one makes you just as insecure as anyone else. Security is a binary condition, either you are or you aren't.

http://tinyurl.com/37dq5q

I still stand by my argument that the morris worm spread through email because it spread through sendmail, and email program.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Message-ID: <ytc8cwq251es.dlg@funkenbusch.com>

Much like Linux vendors have a conflict of interest in that they subsist entirely on support contracts, and have no financial incentive to make problem free software.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Message-ID: <11wcdijum09b9.dlg@funkenbusch.com>

I don't consider anything handed down from above as "open source", whether or not it's released using an open source license.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Message-ID:
<okx25jrn3u95.dlg@funkenbusch.com>

Here's a reason why EVERYONE should be running scared.

1) Millions of NIGERIAN children with free PC's. There's a reason most of the 419 scams come out of nigeria, and now having millions of people with computers to run such scams will only make things worse.


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Message-ID: <1ab6759hbc4j3$.dlg@funkenbusch.com>

[here's a bit of inanity regarding OpenOffice downloads]

Whether or not that's true, it could mean 1/2 a billion installs that got installed, then trashed righ away when they didn't like it.

Or, and I think this is more likely, I think there are legions of people running scripts out there to download the files over and over to stack the download count.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.text.pdf
Message-ID:
<q4rw8sye4usd$.dlg@funkenbusch.com>


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Or as he's been dubbed "Ewik The Weasel". He makes spurious claims, then ignores them (or runs away) when challenged. Unanswered questions about his claims include:
1] Where does NTFS store its journal?

2] How did the Morris worm spread by email?

3] What about using MS TT fonts on Linux, why have they to be *only* used in Windows?

4]Can he provide evidence for plenty of examples of competing ISO
standards?

5] What about the "thousands of root exploits per month in linux" he claimed, & he was then found to be making it all up?

6 Just what *was* the plan he was going to reveal wrt adding nonsensical lines to the ends of Roy S's posts? The Plan(tm) he was going to tell us about before he spent a week away and fell behind? The time he fell behind by a week and had to take 3 or more months to get caught up with posts?
WTF *was* that plan he was going to astound the world with?

Anonymous said...

You people are fucking clueless.

Anonymous said...

He is easily defeated. Just share the truth in response. He has yet to answer the question why Microsoft does not support green services with their Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003, such as Wake-on-LAN.

Anonymous said...

Saying the word Nigerian does not make you racist. Saying that saying Nigerian makes you racist DOES make you fucking retarded though.