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Examining Some Open Source Myths

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the news-to-me dept.

Neil Gunton writes "I wrote an article distilling some thoughts on Open Source myths. Perhaps unusually, these are not myths propogated by the anti-OSS crowd, but rather dogma that is more frequently spouted by OSS proponents. It is not intended as an anti-OSS argument, but really more as observations and reactions to specific things people say without really thinking about it, such as 'You shouldn't complain about it if you don't want to put effort into providing a fix', 'OSS lets you get under the hood to fix problems', 'All software should be free', 'Scratching the personal itch', etc."

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  1. Re:A fair treatment, but I still disagree by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Subscribers can see into the future. :)

  2. Uh Oh! by Zorilla · · Score: 5, Funny

    A discussion where bashing the soft points of OSS doesn't get modded -1 Troll.

    I can see the next article: "Understanding the GNAA"

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    1. Re:Uh Oh! by Trurl's+Machine · · Score: 2, Funny

      I can see the next article: "Understanding the GNAA"

      A well written article on slashdot (and others) trollkore is always worth read. There is one on Wiki and it's pretty good, but I'd really like to read something more psychologically insightful on that. What is the goatse man really trying to communicate? ;-)

  3. Re:Why is this on slashdot? by TheCyko1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    And look, I'm not getting posted on slashdot for saying Apache is cool.

    This isn't slashdot?

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  4. Re:Free Software by chegosaurus · · Score: 4, Funny

    > whether you choose to buy it of course, is your own freedom.

    You'll never get a job at Microsoft with that attitude.