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A Contrarian View of Open Source

Posted by michael on from the open-arms-and-a-threadbare-tank-top-and-unbuttoned-jeans dept.

Bruce Sterling's OSCON speech is now online - fun, light reading. And a reminder: the Global Civil Society design contest (which we mentioned before) is ending soon.

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  1. A "contrarian view of open source"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You may as well just call it a "troll".

  2. A bird? A plane? by dirvish · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What is a Contrarian?

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  3. I can relate to the speaker. by t0qer · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    *disclaimer*This is a re-post of a comment I made a while back.

    I was a sysadmin for 7 years, the fact that lusers would never heed my warings, read the documentation, or flat out needed things repeated to them 20 times in a row made me decide to quit being the McDonalds coke and a smile "Hi How may I fix your computer today?"

    Near my 7th year, I became frustrated, started telling people how stupid I thought they were to their face (Usually after the 8th time of explaining something) And generally degraded into the self absorbed irritating prick that I am today.

    2 years later i'm still recovering. Where I used to fix my friends and families computers for free I now charge the shit outta them till they don't wanna come back. Everytime the phone rings my hair still stands up on end because i'm afraid of yet another person saying, "Hey toq just wanted to ask you a quick question!" No it's never a quick question, it's a gateway into a line of questioning not even the worse murderer would be subjected to in a police interregation.

    And you dare say was I ever a sysadmin, jeesh. I'd bet money I could w00p your arse in a contest of skills any day of the week. Trust me kid, you just haven't burned out yet, but you will. And when you do, that's where open source with the lack of stupid people and politics will be waiting.

    --toq

  4. OT: USian by Pfhreakaz0id · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Ok, this is completely offtopic, but I've had it with freaking USian... It's the United States of America I'm terribly sorry that later, there came to be different countries in areas that later came to be known as North America, Central America and South America, but those terms, correct me if I am wrong, came later. Even if they didn't, it's our country, it is the only one with "America" in the name, and calling ourselves after the name of our country is, it would seem, our right. Otherwise I will maintain that the "English" stop calling themselves that, because there are many countries that speak English.

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