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are you a member of the "Free Source Cult"?

This is beyond funny:5/01/2002 - More Evidence Against Wal-Mart

Not only is Wal-Mart targeting our youth with prurient and outright pornographic "reading" material, but they are also facilitating hackers by selling so-called "naked PCs" on their website. While this sounds like more computer pornography, naked PCs -- or computers of questionable legality sold without an installed and licensed operating system -- are actually more pernicious in that they are used by members of the Free Source cult to create hacking tools for disabling filtering software. Walmart.com even promotes the use of these hacking tools (popularly known as "Linix") in conjunction with the naked PCs they sell. Furthermore, when not being used for hacking, these naked PCs are used for running computer operating systems (such as the standard Microsoft Windows or alternate systems like Apple Macintosh) without paying for the proper licenses -- in other words, theft. Does this sound like a wholesome business to you?
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An evidently legitimate site:http://www.orgsites.com/mi/cudi/welcome.html
Clothe those naked computers Wal Mart!
 
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so they are selling computers without an operating system? unless i understand it wrong that's what i get out of it. unlike every other vendor your not forced to take whatever OS they want you to have, you free to use whatever you want and not have to pay for something you don't want.
 
Haha! There's enough real stuff against Walmart that you don't need to play on people's misconceptions and ignorance to make them look bad. Sheesh.
 
im not a violent man but there are just somtimes i feel an arse whooping is in order...needless to say this is one of them....
 
have u ever even tried linux?
selling a bone stock pc isnt promoting what you are stating.it just lets people choose what they want to install.and anyone in there right mind who has enough knowledge to put illegal software on a pc isnt EVER gonna buy the pc in the first place!
 
Please don't waste electrons saying that this is inaccurate. Anyone who doesn't know that it is is beyond hope.
If you click on the link, you'll see that the group is a bunch of old clueless fogies who think that OSS is socialism Read this for an idea how utterly inept these people are. Here's a couple of quotes.
Its members release their software under something called the Glorious People's License (or GPL) which basically states that no one can own the software or put restrictions on copying it.

"The Free Source has been recruiting on line for years now," says Ted Phillips, an expert on modern cults, "... They often work by enticing teens and young adults with the promise of free software and beer, before they start encouraging them to read parable-laced screeds that further indoctrinate them into the cult. ..."
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(emphasis added)
 
This site reminds me of that kid in highschool who talked like he knew everything but didnt. He was really good at making himself look like an ***, much like these people.
 
How man times was the word "hack" incorrectly used on that site? I lost count lol.

If I ever want a good laugh I can just go to that site and be silently amused with the amount of ignorance portrayed there... Linix hahhahahaha
 
Apparently, Canada sucks:
Those few vulgar and obscene sites that refuse to change will be marginalized and accessable only to domestic perverts (who can be isolated and tracked by Homeland Security) and foreigners in disreputable countries like Holland or Canada.
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Looking a little deeper at that site makes me want to ask RMS to go talk to them. It's at the absolute edge of my ability to believe that people can be so ignorant and see things as black and white to such an extreme degree. They don't know what they're talking about, but they assert as absolute their view about it.

If they can figure out how to get their forums back up, it will be pure joy to try to ram some common sense and real information into those people's heads (with respect, accurate information and correct grammar, of course). I'm sure it's a lost cause, but I can't see something like that and not react.
 
This site is obviously a joke/hoax site (like www.mavav.org). They call the GPL the "Glorious People's License." I just noticed they link to mavav.org (supposedly OBJECTIVE: ministries is also a hoax).. It's a hoax. Everything about this site screams of hoax. The fact that they don't submit stories often, the missing link to their forums section and guestbook, the obvious lies, the links to other hoax sites, the picture before you enter the site, the way its designed to upset free software people, etc. Didn't fool me for a second.

The scary thing is that there are people out there who will believe it, and also believe the lies that they have on the site and think that free software types are a bunch of evil hackers.
 
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/me starts singing the "Blame Canada" song from South Park - that's kinda the same thing, no?

Shall I email them? Just to point out how misinformed they are.
 
IDK about it being a parody, although it would help me sleep better at night. None of the several links I looked at seemed fake, and I know that at least one of them is real (Focus on the Family).
If they ever get their forums up, I'll be there in a second. In the meantime, I've got better things to think about.
 
Well, I did a little searching and I couldn't confirm it to be a fake, but did find a lot of blog entries saying people think its a fake and citing evidence that it is. Supposedly there are no links to it from any legit sites. It doesn't even rank very high when you Google search Cudi. www.mavav.org is a confirmed hoax site (the author did it as a project for school). The fact that this site links to MAVAV it is suspicious, though it doesn't confirm anything, as they could've fell for that hoax themselves. It also links to another hoax site, though I haven't confirmed that as a hoax myself (read it on someone's blog).

I sent Cudi e-mail asking if it is a hoax, but I doubt I'll get a reply. I bet for every angry e-mail they get, there is some guy laughing his *** off.
 
free source cult. . . .what about the Microsoft Supremecy Cult? That site just scares me, I hope it is a hoax, if not, I will point out that their webserver could be running an open source operating system (could someone finger it for me, im in windows and I don't have good networking software on windows). And they can thank their internet security to countless opensource projects such as openssl. The ignorance is just plain terrifying.


edit: hey they are based in livonia michigan, thats about 45 minutes from where I live. . .perhaps I should pay them a visit :p
 
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Its members release their software under something called the Glorious People's License (or GPL) which basically states that no one can own the software or put restrictions on copying it.

"The Free Source has been recruiting on line for years now," says Ted Phillips, an expert on modern cults, "... They often work by enticing teens and young adults with the promise of free software and beer, before they start encouraging them to read parable-laced screeds that further indoctrinate them into the cult. ..."
I wish someone would entice me with free software and BEER
 
This reminds me of the nafarious forien CPU maker AMD and their lack of filters that allow horrid hacking!

and that damnable quake hackers program, Damn them!


*cookie to first one to know what 'm talking about*

" Popular among delinquent teens and college students who use them to pirate movies and music (which are often pornographic in their own right), "

Damn kids with their loud rap music! We should get back to the good ol' days of beatin' queers and listenin' to good ol fashioned hymns while having those delightful slaves picking our cotten while we sit on our porches drinking lemonade. Thats the America that should be!



And if the sarcasm is not obvious, you people are in severe need of mental help
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a email that me and a friend just collaberated on and just sent them. I can't wait to see the response. Please note that nothing said in the email was ment, It was meerly to prove the point of how outdated their ways of thinking are.
 
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The email link goes to a gaius.org. www.gaius.org seems to be a christian site, but it also gives free email. I wouldn't be surprised if it were real, you would be surprised at some of the ideas floating out there about technology from those who can't comprehend it.
 
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