Yeah, I know crazy title, but I am working on 4 hours sleep and am feeling a little frisky this morning. I came across this thread over at the Red Hat People blog and the funny stuff has nothing to do with the entry itself. The entry talks about security or something, I don’t know because I didn’t read it. The fun begins in the very first comment:

I am bemused to note that you use closed source Movable Type as your blog software rather than an Open Source alternative such as WordPress.

p0wned! But wait support is near, as near as the next comment:

Please put down the drink professor.

Things go back and forth about how a company that advocates the use of Open Source software is more than able to use commercial software for their own purposes. Fair enough. If they have the money and they don’t mind spending it, then spend it I suppose. The good stuff happens when my friend Anil Dash (who seems to know every damn thread on the web that involves MT) from SixApart fame steps in and offers his words of wisdom:

And since the issue’s been raised, this statement is false: “In any case, with the release of WordPress 1.5.1 – WordPress has far exceeded MT in terms of security and comment spam prevention.”

So what happens next? In the very next comment you get Incest Comment Spam! Of course this isn’t Anil’s fault, but Red Hat’s fault for not using the all-powerful Blacklist, but I mean it’s just too damn funny. Don’t worry Anil, I use MT (not for everything), and understand the importance of staying on top of things. You can comment on my sites any time without being followed by the people of incest (can’t guarantee the Poker people won’t be around the corner waiting for you thought).

And don’t turn this into a WordPress handles spam better than MT thread. There are plenty of those around the web. Let’s just enjoy the humor for once.

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