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What's Wrong with the Open Source Community?

Posted by Hemos on from the time-to-beat-outselves-up dept.

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.

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  1. Wrong: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ESR
    RMS
    ADHD

    Oh, wait, those things are the open source community. I guess everything is wrong then.

  2. What's wrong with faggots with AIDS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    AIDS? Why should I care about AIDS.

    "They that live in sin shall die in sin.".

    That's what the Good Book and Ronald Reagan (bless his soul!) say.

  3. Re:Name-calling doesn't help by eatdave13 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

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

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    "Verbing weirds language." -- Calvin
  4. Chairman Mao - Hitler's stooge by RevMike · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

  5. Re: The Voilation of Rob Malda by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    i cut and pasted that shit to troll. fuckers like you take the bait. suck on it, bitch.

  6. Re:I'm getting paid tsarkon reports by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    you lie like a fucking rug.

    you dont write anything for a living. you are using marketing terms which makes you a fucking poser lying fag.

    shut the fuck up with your faggot market terms.

    GNU license is a fucking virus. anyone paying anybody to develop shit wishes to GOD that the GNU shit would turn to BSD license.

    You know what, the open stuff isnt bad, but it takes a real fucking company to clean it up.

    FUCK YOU. you fucking shithead.

  7. What's wrong with open source? How about NOTHING. by Fantastic+Lad · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    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

  8. Re:Much to learn. by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    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?

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