What's Wrong with the Open Source Community?

An anonymous reader writes "We Have Met The Enemy and He Is Us says a Pogo-quoting James Turner, in trying to pinpoint "What's Wrong with the Open Source Community?" for LinuxWorld this morning. But he doesn't *just* say that it's we developers ourselves, he also has five hard-to-deny reasons, including 'Open source developers often scratch the same itch' and 'Open Source developers love a good feud.' He also suggests we often approach the whole issue of encouraging migration to Linux from Windows entirely wrongly." There's also a decent rebuttal with this story as well - worth reading.

Comments

Re:Name-calling doesn't help

[eatdave13]

You say quite a lot. Don't say quite quite so much, it makes you sound like quite a fag.

Chairman Mao - Hitler's stooge

[RevMike]

Wasn't he overthrown after about 20 years by Chairman Mao?

What most people don't realize is that Mao was Hitler's stooge. In the 1930s Hitler and Stalin made a pact to partition eastern Europe between them. As part of that pact, Stalin instructed Mao to open a new front against Chiang Kai Sheck in order to help Hitler's ally, Imperial Japan.

What's wrong with open source? How about NOTHING.

[Fantastic Lad]

This article is just another piece of propagandic hosreshit from the 'Scorched Earth, Everybody In Cages' department.

Or as Buckaroo would ferociously point and cry, "EVIL!"

Yes. That about summs it up entirely, no mincing about. The war is on, and Mordor is at your doorstep. Where did I put my light sabre. . ?

-FL

Re:Much to learn.

[Blakey Rat]

Why is this moderated +5 Interesting instead of -1 Off-Topic? What does Chairman Mao have to do with open-source software?

Criminy, Moderators, do you even KNOW what the points are for?