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Open Source Needs Leadership?

Posted by michael on from the cat-herders-needed-apply-within dept.

alessio writes: "At Webmonkey there is an article from Jay Greenspan which reports from Open Source Conference 2001, and I cannot agree with 99% of what he says. However, there is a point worth of discussion: do the Open Source/Free Software movement need a 'leadership' to better fight back new stuff from Redmond? His answer is yes, my would be no, but maybe it's not obvious."

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  1. Traitor! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Kill him, mod him down, GPL him.
    Ignore his heretical(although well thought out and reasoned) arguments.
    Be different from the rest by being just like every other fat manchild living in their parent's houses.

  2. Re:Of Course. by ralmeida · · Score: 2, Funny

    MS has 48,000 employees, and carries a product line of over 1,200 products. 48k may seem big, but really, its not a lot. Half of those are active engineers.

    The other half are lawyers.

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  3. I'm ready to be the open source leader by JiveDonut · · Score: 4, Funny
    I will be happy to act as your leader.

    Bow down before me and worship.

    Go forth and develop software that is good and plentiful.

    Send me donations.

    Live long and prosper.

    Be nice to each other.

    Who's with me?

  4. Easy solution by Dr_Cheeks · · Score: 4, Funny
    All we need is to plow some of our considerable energies into genetically engineering a giant monster Tux (with a whole army of little lieutenant Tux's passing on his commands), who can then co-ordinate our jihad against MS.

    Or, y'know, alternatively we could continue to fight on all fronts exactly as we've been doing already (and people do actually seem to be making money after all). Anyway, who the hell wants to spend their spare time working for a giant multinational Linux Corp? Not me.

    BTW, I think I should point out that Jay's doesn't always hit the mark quite right. Take a look at his premature eulogy for Slashdot. Take what he says with a pinch of salt, folks.

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