Open Source Dress for Success University Opens

Roblimo writes "Linus Torvalds and his bosses at OSDL have finally realized that the biggest problem getting businesses to adopt GNU/Linux is that most FOSS programmers wear sandals and have ponytails. They've teamed up to offer style tips for the IT set. NewsForge Reports on comments from OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen, saying that if OSDSU works as planned, the open source community 'can be as successful at delivering new products, bug-free and on time, as Microsoft is doing with Vista.'" NewsForge is part of the OSTG family, along with Slashdot.

SIGN ME UP!!!!11one

[Darth Liberus (874275)]

open-source dress is gonna be like soooooo cute! i can't wait LOLS

Re:SIGN ME UP!!!!11one

[jacksonj04 (800021)]

Who's gonna be the first to check in a shirt_design_pony?

Real shoes!

[dilvie (713915)]

Finally! A serious article. I totally agree with this concept. I'm going to buy real shoes tomorrow!

Re:Real shoes!

[hentaidan (933903)]

Finally! A serious article.

You obviously missed the ponytails!

Well... Im sure on of the approved outfits can be

[technoextreme (885694)]

found here:http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/31/1 746234 [slashdot.org]

Pink sandals and PONYtails!

[Soul-Burn666 (574119)]

no text.

Re:Pink sandals and PONYtails!

[RLiegh (247921)]

more like "OMGPONYtails" amirite?

Isn't there a TV show?

[Kelson (129150)]

"MBA Eye for the OSS Guy," or something like that?

MOD PARENT UP!

[drewzhrodague (606182)]

Seriously! What if we can't all be overweight and bald? Would this be workplace discrimination?

I'll still like being skinny, having all my (long) hair, and wearing sandals.

Re:MOD PARENT UP!

[Bush Pig (175019)]

Ive got news for you, and its all bad. In 30 years time you WILL be bald and fat. It happened to me, itll happen to you. (Yes, I DO know about apostrophes, but my keyboard has started misbehaving, and I cant be fucked fixing it at the moment.)

Yo Zonk! It's the 2nd now!

[CRC'99 (96526)]

Can someone tell Zonk that April fools day only lasts for one day?

Re:Yo Zonk! It's the 2nd now!

[Draegonis (953885)]

It's still the 1st by GMT, which is what /. goes by technically.

Re:Yo Zonk! It's the 2nd now!

[Arcade Fire (907457)]

Yo Zonk! It's the 2nd now! (Score:2)

by CRC'99 (96526) Alter Relationship on Saturday April 01, @07:08PM (#15043325)

No, it isn't.

Re:Yo Zonk! It's the 2nd now!

[Lehk228 (705449)]

look at his URL, it's a .au address

Re:Yo Zonk! It's the 2nd now!

[Kelson (129150)]

Yesterday we had people in the US complaining that it wasn't April 1 yet (well, not in their timezone). And today we have people in Australia complaining that it's not April 2 anymore (well, not in their timezone).

Going by the time they started (midnight UTC), they've still got 2 hours left. Which won't, of course, stop the complaining.

Re:Yo Zonk! It's the 2nd now!

[yfkar (866011)]

Psst... the article is not a joke.
This was in the other news a few days ago.

Re:Yo Zonk! It's the 2nd now!

[yfkar (866011)]

Oops, commenting to a wrong article.
/me hides away :|

Re:Yo Zonk! It's the 2nd now!

[thelenm (213782)]

It's still April Fools Day for me... I'm in the USA, you insensitive clod! Sheesh, I wish Slashdot weren't so Australia-centric. There are a few users not in the Eastern Hemisphere, you know.

They are overlooking the biggest roadblock!

[linguizic (806996)]

The biggest roadblock to adoption of linux isn't sandles and ponytails, it's soap and deoderant!! You can get away with long hair and sandals, just as long as you don't smell. I know that's what's keeping me from leaving my house right now.

OMG

[Jboost (960475)]

I want a pink tie with ponies.

Dress for Success...

[creimer (824291)]

Is pink a good color? :P

Open Source Clothing?

[Paulo's News (964647)]

I don't mean to be negative at all, I'm just concerned: If the OSDSU starts pushing people to wear Open Source clothing, is this necessarily a good thing? Sure, most of the garments are free and made with good karma, but the care tags are a foot long, the weaving on one sleeve is twice as think as the weaving on the other, and the inside of the watch pocket says "/* Mr T ate your mom's balls */"

Re:Open Source Clothing?

[jacquems (610184)]

I think open source clothing would be distributed in the form of patterns, and maybe pre-cut fabric. It would be up to you to compile it into a shirt/pants/whatever yourself. Leaves more room for tweaking that way. Like the shirt, but think a pocket would enhance it? By all means, add one, and share your pattern with the community. I suppose there could also be some off-the-rack versions for people who are not up to the challenge of sewing their own clothes.

Dupe, Not April Fool!

[Jetson (176002)]

A variant of this story was posted on March 28th. Either that one was an early April Fool's joke or this one isn't.

Follow-up, not dupe

[Kelson (129150)]

Or maybe it's a foolow-up?

Oops...

[Draegonis (953885)]

"OSDL"

Re:Oops...

[Draegonis (953885)]

It would appear that I am a tool and confused OSDL with OSDN/OSTG. Sorry. :(

/. == onion

[opencity (582224)]

Funny today, but like my hometown paper The Onion the jokes are the headlines.

This is not enough!

[mehaiku (754091)]

So sandals and long hair are lost,
If the line of success will be crossed,
We must not forget
Success does not permit
Gifting vibrating eggs to the boss [microsoft.com]

All gone

[caffeination (947825)]

Seems all the mod points have dried up. That'll teach you to waste them on dipshits saying "mod me up". What the fuck is the point of that anyway? It's of no entertainment value, so why is it a part of April 1st here?

The best thing is that I can get away with directly antagonising them, because they're no longer moderators! HAHA!

Aww man! So misleading.

[drrobin_ (131741)]

I saw that wonderful 'Open Source Dress' and was imagining the possibilities of the general public adding and removing patches at will. Presumably it was eventually all Open-not-repetitive. Oh well.

he palace, came urgent trumpet calls, the heavy crunch of hundreds of feet, the clank of metal. It told the Procurator that the Roman infantry was marching out, on his orders, to the execution parade that was to strike terror into the hearts of all thieves and rebels 'Do you hear. Procurator? ' the High

On another

OMG!

[Geoffreyerffoeg (729040)]

OMG! PONYTAILS!

Suits

[PietjeJantje (917584)]

I hope potential employers someday finaly realize that the biggest problem getting me to work for 20-century style businesses who failed to enter the 21th is that they are loaded with suits who gave up their personality and individuality for..what? They should team up to offer style tips for them lemming suits.

Re:Suits

[Eravnrekaree (467752)]

I agree completely. This whole thing about these dress codes is about taking away peoples individuality, and as well, allowing corporations to control and dictate to people on even minor things that are completely irrelevant to the job at hand. What does suits and ties have to do with good programming? Absolutely nothing. In fact, I would say that if I am wearing something comfortable I am much more likely to produce better code than if I am wearing uncomfortable business clothing.

It seems corporations want

Re:Suits

[Stween (322349)]

Reminds me of the BBC News article "What's the point of a tie? [bbc.co.uk]".

APRIL FOOLS!

[Eideteker (641508)]

APRIL FOOLS!

Really, I don't think there's a problem here

[wsanders (114993)]

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/linus/le2.jpg [catb.org]

OMFG, he dresses just like ... like EVERYONE I KNOW.

Although everyone knows you NEVER wear white socks with the Birkenstocks after Labor Day.

http://ask.yahoo.com/20020913.html [yahoo.com]

Experiences with dress codes in the work place

[COredneck (598733)]

I have been in the working world for almost 16 years. I worked at various places that had different dress codes. Anymore, my attitude is my focus is getting the job done and getting it done where the poeple I serve are happy. Dress codes are fluff or in other words, bull$h!t. My work puts me behind the scene 99 percent of the time.

Currently I work for a major DoD contractor company in Colorado Springs. We also have several sites in Denver which I also worked at as well back in 2000. On Fri, I went to one

Re:gay/straight tags

[caffeination (947825)]

HAHA, don't you realise that the only reason that every story has been tagged gay is that we know that it's pissing people like you off? This certainly isn't the sort of website where you see the word "gay" is ever applied seriously. It's a joke, at your expense.

Re:gay/straight tags

[cnettel (836611)]

I did nothing earlier today when all posts were "gay". I didn't find it especially funny, but overall, I didn't care. When obviously enough people find reason to tag it as straight AS WELL, it just gets pointless. Of course, we can find that funny as well, and then we can tag along and tag with any word we find in the dictionary, but the tagging might after all be used for searching later on, and a total polluting of everything based on the April 1st posts is, well, not needed.

Re:gay/straight tags

[caffeination (947825)]

not needed? I direct you to this [slashdot.org].

Re:gay/straight tags

[cnettel (836611)]

And it's still not relevant, since I'm not saying that the posts are not needed, but that tags that have nothing to do with the story, are not needed. When, and if, we ever want to search for gay and straight /. stories (somehow more likely than wanting to search for pony stories, I suppose), we will just get these.

I don't feel strongly about it, it's just like I would be irritated by code like:

x++; x--;

Irritated, simply because it's pointless. (Unless we're dealing with doubles, or close to overflow

Re:gay/straight tags

[caffeination (947825)]

S'oright. I'm just bored right now, and trying to lower the SNR myself. I'm on the come-down from what's been an enjoyable afternoon (check my post history [slashdot.org] - the visibile part consists of the last 24 hours).

I still say you're crazy for giving a shit about search though. I've been considering this sort of thing [caffeination.net] a lot myself lately. I eventually decided that I wasn't going to waste code and processor cycles on tags at all. It cost a lot of what would have been easily gained accuracy in 90% of cases, but I fou

Re:Apr 1

[prodangle (552537)]

Ok, joke is old. Enough is enough. I think we all are getting tired of the "OMG PONIES" crap now. It was funny the first 100 times, now it's just stupid. Switch the site back and freaking move on already... sheesh.

haha, leave it. earlier I was feeling a bit grumpy about slashdot wasting an entire day on 1/4 stories, but now I've lightened up! It's funny! Let's be honest about this - Slashdot has never been a serious news site. It's a blog, where you can often find little gems, but you have to wade through some mud to get there. Similarly no-one reads /. as a journal - it's somewhere to go to waste some time. And today I've been able to waste more time than usual!

Good going Taco - keep it up, and don't listen to the winging grumpy gits! :)