Comic Transcript

ALEX: How can you justify automatically labeling anyone who uses Linux as a terrorist?

PHIL: Oh, it’s all in keeping with Ubersoft’s attempt to discredit the entire Open Source/Free Software phenomenon.

PHIL: The US government is already labeling hacking as an act of terrorism, and many hackers use Linux. We’re just exaggerating the link between the two, and eventually everyone will think of Linux as an operating system that only criminals use.

ALEX: Phil, doesn’t your group use Linux from time to time?

PHIL: Oh, I gave us an automatic exemption. One of the many perks of being the programmer, you know.