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Old 10-01-2008, 02:41 AM   #1
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LXer: "Geen Stijl" is a communist website!


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"Geen Stijl" is a highly controversial weblog in The Netherlands with a right-wing affiliation. Recently "Geen Stijl" published an entry on Linux, saying that "Linux is a kind of communist Open Source Operating System and Hugo Chaves, dictator of Venezuela, understands this". Later on it states that "Everyone who uses Linux supports terrorism, atomic weapons, high oil prices and the destruction of the earth".

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Old 10-01-2008, 04:36 AM   #2
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GeenStijl is blog that usually writes the opposite of what they think to get you to think. They are highly satirical and sarcastic. Taking them seriously is making a fool out of yourself. Because it is a dutch blog a lot of people never read it and this is probably why people are overreacting. Exactly what the blog wants actually.
 
  


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