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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.
Judging on the usual reactions of most /. trolls, open source is clearly infallible and shall never die. There is absolutely nothing wrong with anything from attempting to convert Windows users to making clones of original apps. Move along.
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If you really want to use *nix try gentoo. Seriously, I am not some zealot. I'm an average dual booting guy who just needs to have some sort of nix to do my cs homework with. The gentoo forums are the friendliest open source people ever, and they answer just about any questions within a day. Not only that, but gentoo has super awesome documentation. It's not the easiest, it just requires a great deal of time and patience as opposed to knowledge which debian requires. Just give it 1 shot and if you're not satisfied it's not like you lost money or anything.
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No one is disputing that Apple has great idiot-appeal for people who want something that "just works" - that has never been open source's forte. The flipside to this uber-controlled market is that you get to pay $120 for each point release for the OS, and you get to pay a significant premium for hardware. You also get limited access to source (limited to Darwin) which ultimately puts you in the same "hostage" situation many Microsoft users are in with respect to security.
"Hullo, there! Would you fancy to play with my skinflute?"
In other words, open source is gay and Linux is a gay conspiracy.
Here's part of what he said in response to the editorial: "Go away and write some code. If
you can't do that, then just go away."
Now we have a poster boy for the egocentric buttheads that give Linux a bad name. Got a picture for the poster Zac?
for the same reason google, yahoo, msn et all don't get slashdotted either. you're not very bright, are you?
It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.
What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:
I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.
Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'
As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.
And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!
Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:
'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'
Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?
We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of post
Some other issues that are limiting the ability of Linux to become popular with the masses are:
1. The names of the programs are not user friendly. Where Microsoft calls a media player a Media Player or a photo editor Paint, Linux uses names that have no meaning to the common user. Names such as Gimp, Pia, Ogg123, etc. have no indication of what they really do as an application.
2. Package installation can be a huge problem. How often do you try and install a package just to find out that you have incompatibilities all over the place. Libraries and required package version problems and other such things can make installation of simple things a total nightmare.
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I agree with this. My most pleasant Linux experience so far has been gentoo. Although - the fact that it is CLI will scare off Joe Sixpack - or even mildly techy users. I know there are projects underway to make a GUI - mostly for things like etc-update (which can be a bit nasty). Adding a small(OPTIONAL!) gui front end to emerge,etcat and those essential tools could pull many more users.
Once agains hats off - I have not had to play wack-a-mole rpm style for a long time now.
Gentoo forums really are the friendliest linux forums. They are on par with Lugnet.
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Seriously though, all of this feuding and itch scratching sort of business happens in every developer group, it's just that outsiders don't hear about it because they don't have a kt.zork.net/{longhorn,oracle,whatever} to air their dirty laundry to the public.
P.S. LinuxWorld: I love the "POINT-COUNTERPOINT SPECIAL" title, maybe for the next article you can use the troll^H^H^H^Hitle "WHY SCO WILL WIN" and follow it with 15 Myth-Fact bullet points. Genius!
Insightful my ass. Netscape, Quicktime, Realplayer, and Opera aren't Microsoft products you idiot. The original post was listing Microsoft products, not products that ran on Windows. Open your fucking eyes jackass.
Which code would that be? The plagurized SCO code or the code which just basically copies the functionality of some pre-existing MS app?
Good thing he wrote it as an article, tho. Thats the only way anyone around here actually reads anything contrary to the zealot dogma.
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