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Sandals and Ponytails Behind Slow Linux Adoption
Eric Giguere writes "CNet is reporting that according to former Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn 'the lax dress code of the open-source community is one of the reasons behind the software's slow uptake in commercial environments.' In particular, Quinn blames the 'sandal and ponytail set' for sluggish adoption of Linux by businesses and governments." From the article: "Quinn, who faced plenty of scrutiny over his support of the OpenDocument standards-based office document format, said proponents of open source in government faced formidable opposition from vested interests if they went public."
To every suit who doesn't take me seriously because of my appearance (and yes, I do bathe regularly, and my clothes, casual as they may be, are clean and good repair):
Deal with it. I'm smarter than you. I could do your job in my sleep; you couldn't do mine in a million years. You need the product I, and people like me, provide; and good luck finding someone who dresses like you who can provide it. If you prefer to buy crap from other suits, go for it. Your competitors, who are also smarter than you, will happily deal with us long-haired freaks to get the good stuff.
At 37, I haven't suffered any harm from this attitude yet.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
I think what comes out of Stallman's mouth would be a lot worse for OSS's image than what he wears.
Not grumpy at all. I've just wised up a lot, and realised that outlandish appearances are deceptive. Regarding your anecdotal evidence about your wonderful cancer-researching goth chick, that's great. But the vast majority are hilarious idiots. I still hang out with goths all the time, by the way, since a bunch of female friends are lightly connected with that scene. And my impressions are confirmed every weekend when I'm trapped in a room full of them.
Sounds like you're in an unsatisfactory relationship. Does your girlfriend know you'd rather be dating goths? You should stop lying to her.
Dare you to say that under your username. Fucking coward.
So be it. I have no problems with losing the american market. Linux isn't for everybody.
evil is as evil does