Are Linux Zealots Terrorists?

pair-a-noyd submitted this one choice piece of flamebait, I'll just quote it ".. I have a hard time seeing the Zealots as any different from terrorists because of the nature of their threats. I expect one of them -- or perhaps a group of them -- will go too far at some point and do significant damage to the open-source movement, the ongoing litigation with SCO or their employers. I strongly believe that if September 11 showed us anything, it was that zealots of any movement represent a huge risk to that movement because zealots do not consider the repercussions of their actions" Like the zealots he speaks of, he goes to far, but he does make legitimate points that the Open Source community has wrestled with in the past.

Comments

Re:Warballs - Lazy journalism

[duffbeer703]

It's disturbing that you would say such a thing in the wake of September 11.

Re:Truth Behind the Lies

[Anonymous Coward]

No one is promising us 40 virgins in the afterlife if we die in the name of Torvalds, either.

Are you kidding? You'll go to the Geek Afterlife, and everyone there is a virgin...

Re:woah

[byolinux]

I give you, Steve the Super-Villian - http://www.ubergeek.tv/switchlinux/

A good, humourous, yet only-slightly exaggerated from a (small?) portion of the Linux community...

I don't think zealots are what we should be afraid of, what we should fear are fundamentalists.

"You have to be realistic about terrorism. Ya gotta be a realist: Certain groups of people--Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montana--are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time. That's the reality. Angry men in combat fatigues talking to God on a two-way radio and muttering incoherent slogans about freedom are eventually going to provide us with a great deal of entertainment." - George Carlin