For the last two weeks, the Linux army has seized on Tuttle, Oklahoma city manager Jerry Taylor as a result of Mr. Taylor attacking Linux maker CentOS without cause. Moreover he threatened to call the FBI on the firm and then refused to apologize when it was revealed that he was accusing an innocent man based soley on his ignorance?

Here’s how Taylor described CentOS and the Linux fans who emailed him about the recent incidents to the local Tuttle Times newspaper.

“This is just a bunch of freaks out there that don’t have anything better to do,”

Taylor said. Yet he didn’t stop there, Mr Taylor continued to expound further by adding

“When I came in to work Monday morning, I had about 500 emails, plus anonymous phone calls from all the geeks out there. (CentOS is) a free operating system that this guy gives away, which tells you how much time he’s got on his hands.”

Appearantly this all started when Taylor came into work one day and found the Tuttle website he had created on the back of 22 years’ experience working for government contractor Raytheon was down. Instead of a website, Taylor discovered an Apache server configuration page that mentioned CentOS which was the linux based OS that was previously hosting the website. Being an Oklahoma man, the Apache feather logo must have been somewhat frightening to a man with such limted understanding; Consiquently Taylor felt the configuration page was some manner of hack attempt on his website. Mr Tuttle wasted little time then firing off a series of enraged emails to CentOS demanding that the Linux maker make the Tuttle website re-appear. He event went so far as to contact the FBI, un-freaking believable.

You can read the entire sordid details at The Registers ® website.