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Myths About Open Source Development

Posted by michael on from the hard-truth dept.

jpkunst writes "A thought-provoking article by chromatic on oreillynet, listing eight "myths" that Open Source developers tell themselves. For example: Myth: Publicly releasing open source code will attract flurries of patches and new contributors. Reality: You'll be lucky to hear from people merely using your code, much less those interested in modifying it."

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  1. Myth 7432: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Open source developers have the same good hygene as Microsoft developers.

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  3. other myths by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    that there are any hetrosexual open sores developers.

    that open sores is ready for the desktop

    that open sores users are more gay than M.A.C. users

  4. Myths About Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Myth 1: CmdrTaco is heterosexual

    Myth 2: Hemos is heterosexual

    Myth 3: Moderators are heterosexual

    Myth 4: You're heterosexual

  5. myth 12: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Opensource software is superior to Microsoft software

    1. Re:myth 12: by Lane.exe · · Score: 1, Flamebait
      You mean Microsoft is superior because they are nice enough to write shitty enough code to allow script-kiddos like yourself to keep exploiting it with viruses so that you can impress the rest of your "1337 friends" and dream about getting laid as you think of how hot it would be to be in a threesome with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Moss? Yeah, I guess you're right in that sense.

      Come back in 5 or 6 years when you have a real job in IT and have actually used OSS projects in the workplace. Tell me that all those W2K server licenses were worth it when, after the 9 billionth time they'd crashed, you switched to Debian and Apache for free, and never looked back. Tell me this.

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    2. Re:myth 12: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Yeah why don't you come back when you get a real job in IT. Not system administrator for the 12 computers at Poduck Elementary School. Because Debian is a joke in the business world and always has been.

  6. Re:Headline for the article is a troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Don't get your panties all in a bunch, senorita. They weren't saying that open source is bad, they were only saying that some things you geeks tout about OSS never really pan out. Spend 2 seconds at sourceforge to see how true this is- if OSS was so great, 99% of the projects wouldn't have stalled in the .10 pre-alpha-alpha release.

    You geeks are some of the most uptight people around. Learn to relax.

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