In a stunning move, Pope Benedict XVI has issued a bulla declaring the current Linux operating system heretical, in addition to excommunicating a number of programmers who developed the OS and dealing anathema to the operating system's creator, Linus Torvalds.
In a statement, Torvalds and other Linux developers vowed to fight the edict "to the utmost of our ability." It is believed they will utilize a two-pronged strategy to contest this declaration. First, they will attempt to prove the OS itself, and all its antecedents, is free from heretical content. Secondly, they will use the ecclesiastical courts system to prove that the Pope's edict was not, strictly speaking, made ex cathedra. The operating system's case is hampered somewhat by its origin in Finland, which is predominantly Evangelical Lutheran, and by Torvalds' history of anti-church statements.
Existing church law is unclear regarding the extent of papal infallibility on matters of computing and software.
This marks the first intervention by the church into software development, although in the 1980s, a sermon by Pope John Paul II reminded the faithful to beware of taking shortcuts in life, including keyboard shortcuts.
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I am only shocked that it took the Pope to condem this. Can't you people see!?! The letters Linux also spell Lucifer. All you have to do is drop the n and x, and add a c, f, e, and r.
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