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Open Source Dress for Success University Opens

Posted by Zonk on Sat Apr 01, 2006 06:00 PM
from the learn-to-dress dept.
Software IT Linux
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.
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  • Finally! A serious article. I totally agree with this concept. I'm going to buy real shoes tomorrow!

  • Isn't there a TV show? (Score:4, Funny)

    by Kelson (129150) * on Saturday April 01 2006, @06:06PM (#15043321) Homepage Journal
    "MBA Eye for the OSS Guy," or something like that?
    • 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.
  • Can someone tell Zonk that April fools day only lasts for one day?

  • They are overlooking the biggest roadblock! (Score:3, Insightful)

    by linguizic (806996) * on Saturday April 01 2006, @06:10PM (#15043330)
    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.
  • Is pink a good color? :P
  • 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 */"
  • 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.
  • Funny today, but like my hometown paper The Onion the jokes are the headlines.
  • 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!

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

            • 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 (Score:4, Insightful)

        by prodangle (552537) <matheson@gmail . c om> on Saturday April 01 2006, @07:50PM (#15043612) Homepage Journal
        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! :)

    • 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

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