Yankee Group Slams Linux 'Extremists'

AvatarofVirgo wrote in to mention an article running on ZDNet in which the consulting firm The Yankee Group goes after folks in the Linux community who have been questioning their objectivity. From the article: "Laura DiDio, an analyst at the Yankee Group who has been at the receiving end of much of the criticism from Linux advocates, claimed the radical elements of the community could damage the reputation of open source software."

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Too late!

[Anonymous Coward]

claimed the radical elements of the community could damage the reputation of open source software

Could? Looks a little too late for "could".
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Could damage the reputation of open source???
LOL

Damn Yanks!

[warriorpostman]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't "Yankee" a derogatory term for American colonists whose political views were considered part of the "extremist fringe"???

From TFA..

[Mr. Flibble]

There's an extremist fringe of Linux loonies who hang out on forums and are disrespectful and threatening because you disagree with them...That can hurt the Linux community.

On SLashdot?

Say it aint so!

Nut Jobs???

[natet]

"I've had these nut jobs calling me at 11 o'clock at night," said DiDio.

Inconsiderate people call at 11:00 pm. Nut jobs call at 4 am, and tell you what you are wearing in your bed as they watch you through a telescope from the apartment across the street.

I should know. The court appointed Psychologist told me I'm a nut job. She said that was the technical term for it...

Insult wars! :D

[Spy der Mann]

I'll start.

Linux: Soon you'll be wearing my sword like a shish kebab!

Microsoft: __________________________________ [your turn]

Re:Name calling

[Laura_DilDio]

Actually, at the time I didn't want everyone to know what I was really being called...but I've come to embrace it, as it's my only source of pleasure in this world.

Calls at 11pm

[trelanexiph]

Laura, how have you been since we talked on the phone? I'm hardly a terrorist, I gave you my name and position in the open-source community when I called you, and you know as well as I do the reason for that call, but I will re-iterate it here. If you call us ankle-biting terrorist car-bombers, we can and will make this a self-fulfilled prophecy. My intent in calling you was not to terrorize but to ask you why you would say such things about a productive and creative community? While it may have been 11pm there it was 7pm on the west coast.
Stick to your analysis and don't preach, it makes you look ever so slightly less biased. SCO found this out, you found this out, do not fuck with a community of people who have put their talent, and their names on the line to write code, and support the community. We have a thin, thin tolerance of people publically abusing us for no good reason other than that you seem to feel like it. I wonder, was William Genevesse (arrested for stealing the winows 2000 software and reselling it) ever convicted of being an "open source terroist" or perhaps and "ankle-biter" (I might agree with you here).
Truth be told you were dead wrong and instead of waiting for LAW ENFORCEMENT to do their job and arrest the cracker responsible for this, you launched a slur campaign.

Re:If you wern't for sale...

[killjoe]

Laura DiDio is pissed because anytime she publishes a study telling the world how creamy and delicious MS products are and how open source products make the baby jesus cry the community immediately calls her on her bullshit, makes fun of her, and tells the world of all the other bullshit she has spewed in the past.

I would be pissed too.

Here is the problem though. Our megaphone seems to be louder then hers. Maybe, just maybe our voices are being heard louder then hers in the corporate halls. If this is true she will soon be out of a job as MS tries to find other means to get their message across to CIOs.

I would be pissed too.