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What's Wrong With the FOSS Community?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the 500-words-due-next-tuesday dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Patrick McFarland, one of the major Free Software Magazine authors, has completed his second article on whats wrong with the Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) community, and what we face in this world. He touches on ESR's Cathedral and the Bazaar essay briefly, and warns against cherry-picking style software development."

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  1. Re:Frankly, the Zealots and the... (re:ac) by everphilski · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    name names

    says the anonymous coward

  2. Re:In my opinion by CDarklock · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > Ok, then by your logic, Microsoft has never
    > released a successful project.
    [...]
    > If there is one bug somewhere that caused an
    > invalid result or a crash or something, then
    > it fails your test.

    Oh! I'm sorry - I didn't know you were retarded. Let me put it another way:

    Shut the fuck up. You're retarded.

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    Microsoft cheerleader, blue flag waving, you got a problem with that?
  3. Re:Nothing really is wrong except one thing. by QuantumG · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I break that law all the time myself. Reform? Sure. But as for abolishing it completely? Not on your life.You were still talking about child rape right?

    Asshole.

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    How we know is more important than what we know.