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
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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