Will The Fake Linus Torvalds Please Stand Up

11Sep2009 Filed under: General Author: Rami Taibah

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Inspired by the popular Fake Steve Jobs blog, The Linux Foundation invited 4 prominent Linux industry leaders to guest tweet as Linus Torvalds. Users are invited to vote for their favorite fake Linus. The winner and all 4 fake Linus Trovalds will be revealed at LinuxCon 2009.

They also made a hilarious promotion video parodying Eminem’s “Please Stand Up” video:

Chuck Norris dubs Linus a hero. He can divide by zero. He can do an infinite loop in a milli-sec, and round-house Chuck Norris in the neck! The code Linus writes is always bug free!

To see the Fake Linus tweets just search for hashtags #FLT1 #FLT2 #FLT3 #FLT4. They will be tweeting from The Linux Foundation’s twitter account.

For more information on visit The Linux Foundation.

Tags: Linus, LinuxCon09, Torvalds

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Tomasz Slominski

I am absolutely outraged by what you have just done. Flash= closed source. Linuxologist+ closed source= not good.

Rami Taibah

Actually Tomasz, you do have a point. But the video on The Linux Foundation was also in .flv format. As much as I abhor Flash right now, and really wish that it dies, Youtube is the most ubiquitous video site uses Flash, and we are locked into it.

I am totally aware of HTML 5 supporting video, however only "modern" browsers support it. Not all of the blog's readers have upgraded yet. So we can't just leave them high and dry can we?

Anyways I am open for suggestion to solve this FLOSS/Video problem in a way that does not trample on the convenience of readers :)

laurelraven

Grow up, Tomas.

laurelraven

Grow up, Tomas. Closed source is not evil (though Flash is, but if you're embedding from YouTube, you don't have any choice about format)

laurelraven

Grow up, Tomas...closed source is not necessarily evil. Flash may be, but when the video you want to embed is on YouTube, what choice do you have?

Rami Taibah

Personally, I believe that all closed source is bad. However, Flash is one of the few applications out there that does not have a proper open source implementations (sadly).

In any case, Flash will die no doubt about that. Its just a failed primitive language that found its niche in the widget-ey web. Sooner or later it will die.

krkhan

Tomasz, your concern is valid. However, many open-source solutions exist to play FLV movies (e.g. mplayer/vlc). Not only that, but you also have a *free* alternative (Gnash) for playing Flash movies which isn't quite a clone in terms of features yet but at least works reasonably well for playing Youtube videos.

FSF plays considerable importance on flash video, and it has good reasons for doing that.

Xavier Sythe

C'mon Tomasz. Chillax, Adobe isn't Microsoft.
Although when they bought Macromedia, all of Macromedia's software products went from "Platinum" to "Garbage" WINE Ratings.
And Adobe is somehow an official member of the Linux Foundation, WHEN THEY DON'T EVEN SUPPORT LINUX. On second thought, maybe you're right to be scared. Suggestion: Expose Adobe on this blog.

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