Open Source Virus!

http://hbar.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/.../msg00060.html

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#!/bin/sh
                        # Honour virus
                        #
                        # Dear Linux/*BSD user,
                        # As you have avoided the various
                        # virii inflicted upon your poor
                        # Windows-using cousins, please take
                        # a moment to read this letter and
                        # then follow the instructions below.
                        #
                        # In the spirit of cooperation of
                        # the free software community, this
                        # virus was written to depend on your
                        # cooperation and good will - hence
                        # the name "honour" virus. With your
                        # cooperation, this virus can spread
                        # as rapidly as the lovebug virus,
                        # once again showing how the free
                        # software community can respond to
                        # issues quicker than the largest
                        # propriatary software maker.
                        #
                        # The virus starts here:

                        # 1. Please delete, at random, 10 (ten)
                        # .jpg, .mpg, .mp3, or .mov files from
                        # your hard drive. Please do not choose
                        # files for which you have a
                        # backup, as that would be unfair to all
                        # the Windows users who *never*
                        # backup their data.

                        # 2. Please send this email to everybody
                        # you have ever received an email
                        # from. We realise that you might have
                        # to write a short shell script to
                        # do this easily, but we feel that,
                        # as a Linux or *BSD user, you are
                        # most likely to be able to do this
                        # without relying on built-in insecure
                        # scripting mechanisms.

                        # 3. If you are reading this in
                        # your workplace, please shut down your
                        # workplace's email system and internet
                        # access for 3 working days -
                        # again this is just so we can empathise
                        # fully with Windows-using companies.

                        # 4. When asked if the writers of
                        # Linux or *BSD are to blame, claim that
                        # the virus only spread because of
                        # intervention by the user's brain and
                        # that the tight integration between
                        # your wetware and the OS is a good
                        # thing that is misused by malicious
                        # virus writers.

                        # 5. If you are Linux Torvalds, Alan Cox,
                        # or you have ever written any
                        # free software, write an essay for
                        # Time magazine complaining that it
                        # will be much harder to protect Linux
                        # users from virii such as this
                        # unless Linux is sold to company asnd
                        # development continues only in a
                        # closed-source environment. In particular,
                        # all user knowledge of the OS
                        # must be erased if such virii are
                        # to be prevented in the future.
                       
                        # 6. As this virus is copylefted under
                        # the GPL, feel free to modify,
                        # err, mutate, and distribute widely.
                        #
                        # Thank you. And remember, open source
                        # virii are far superior to proprietary virii!
                        #
                        # Tuxunamis Infectious

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i've seen stuff like this before (ie- the ommish virii) but it's still a decent chuckle :D

Damn, I've been infected, by the open-source movement and I'm spreading it on to others.

root@yourbox#echo No Cure for the open-source movement
No Cure for the open-source movement


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OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh wait. I made my homework Opensource too. now everyone can work on it for me and make it the best. :)

Yeah I am going to use the open source movement for the car down the street I will open the door and open the dash and drive away. LOL

Whizkid2300

Hehe but to feel realy like a windowsuser you have to get this picture as background or screensaver:http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/urz/system/nt/bluescreen.gif

*g* Merlin

Ah the infamous Blue Screen Of Death so lovely. But, come on I think linux has been around for a while Columbus used it open source country. Lol

Whizkid2300