God Wants Me Dead?

According to this convoluted blog, the Almighty is greatly enraged with the fact that I use Linux.

These Microsoft fanboys are something else. Now they are pretending to be Christian bloggers. You Windows lovers have no shame!

IT Conservative: WTF?

You know, there are moonbats in the IT field too. Besides the obvious, such as Steve Ballmer, Paul Thurrott, and John Dvorak, there is also IT Conservative.

To be fair, he shares my disdain for Richard Stallman’s antics. That’s great. I’ll buy him a beer on account of that. Unfortunately, he goes from being pragmatic to just plain bizarre in claiming:

• Open Source software is the work of Communists hell-bent on destroying capitalism.
• The OpenMoko phone is somehow related to the threat of global terrorism and September 11th.
• DRM-free music is somehow a bad thing

Besides these bizarre claims, this guy’s blog is riddled with glaring factual errors. For example, he claims that Linus Torvalds named Linux after himself. (Anyone who knows anything about the history of Linux knows that it was a friend of Torvalds who provided the name Linux by creating a /linux/ directory on his FTP server to upload the Linux source code- Torvalds had intended to call the project Freax.)

His site is a great read if you are looking for some tongue in cheek humor or the occasional honest and fair criticism of certain aspects of Linux/Free Software. On the other hand, this gentleman is a Redmond fanboy who hates more programming languages than he likes, believes Open Source software is a Communist conspiracy, and believes Microsoft is here to save us.

Fundamentalism is scary and bad and should be fought. We’re in war in Iraq and Afghanistan right now to hunt down fundamentalists. We should do the same in our own country. Because, as I said many times before, the real threatening fundamentalists are the ones that are killing the very foundation our country is built on: capitalism. Giving into the freetard fundamentalists is going back to communism. Is that what we want?

I hope he has been declared mentally incompetent and thus ineligible to own a firearm.