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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.
Not if you intend for them to mean "in a manner completely lacking in correctness".
E.g. if I say "He went about it entirely wrongly" I'm saying "The way in which he went about it was entirely wrong"
It is a syntactically and semantically valid construct, but I have to conceed that it's downright ugly!
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"He also suggests we often approach the whole issue of encouraging migration to Linux from Windows entirely wrongly."
Actually, he's right. "Wrongly" is modifying the verb ("approach"), and is used as an adverb. "Wrong" without the -ly would be an adjective. Adjectives modify nouns.
Think back to when Chiang Kai-Shek took over China: before that no one worked, everyone was poor, morale was nonexistent. Under the benevolent dictator, a term used to describe Linus Torvalds, Kai-Shek ensured that everyone worked, and everyone had a purpose.
Describing Kai-Shek as a benevolent dictator is a bit of a stretch. I'm not saying he was any worse than Mao or the communists, but it's on the record that he also engaged in the darker sides of dictatorship: torturing enemy soldiers, disappearing political dissidents, etc.
An example from this Guardian story details how his wife suggested at a dinner with the Roosevelts that her husband would deal with a wartime strike of coalminers by executing the strikers.
Perhaps these measures were necessary for him and the Kuomintang to retain power, and perhaps it was for the best that they did (well, in Taiwan anyway). But I don't think you can call him 'benevolent'.
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