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Oklahoma city threatens to call FBI over 'renegade' Linux maker

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theregister.co.uk; By Ashlee Vance 		Mail this story
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This tale kicked off yesterday when Tuttle's city manager Jerry Taylor fired off an angry message to the CentOS staff. Taylor had popped onto the city's web site and found the standard Apache server configuration boilerplate that appears with a new web server installation. Taylor seemed to confuse this with a potential hack attack on the bustling town's IT infrastructure.

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Comments (2)

wardog ·
The CentOS guys were way too kind.

After explaining nicely the first time the situation and maybe I would have contacted his IT people for him. But after the threat of calling the FBI, I would have told him to go ahead and do it.

"I am computer literate! I have 22 years in computer systems engineering and operation. Now, can you tell me how to remove 'your software' that you acknowledge you provided free of charge? I consider this 'hacking.'"

This is an idiot if I have ever seen one.

I have zero tolerance for morons, especially threatening morons.

gemlog ·
Funny as that was (and a little sad), I couldn't help thinking what would have happened for a different OS.

Think of the fun if he'd written Theo de Raadt :-)

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