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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. Two things that are wrong: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    1. ESR

    2. RMS

    They pretty much sum up what's wrong with the OSS community.

  2. Presentation is key in the professional world by Asshat+Canada · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The FOSS nerds would do themselves a huge service by (at LEAST) trimming their disgisting food-speckled beards and bathing once in a while. Truly a disgusting group.

  3. Ack!!!!!! by Otter · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    A few years back, Eric S. Raymond (or, as everyone else calls him, ESR), wrote a lengthy paper about this community...If business analysts are simply the ugly hunch-backed minions of the Bad Guy then who is next on the list?

    Patrick -- Eric Raymond is a pompous, clunky, pandering buffoon of a writer. Modeling your prose style on his is like learning spelling from CmdrTaco.

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  4. Re:In my opinion by CDarklock · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    > There is nothing wrong with the FOSS community

    That's exactly what's wrong with it: the open source community does not believe that anything is wrong.

    Let's look commercial closed-source projects.

    - Roughly 48% of commercial projects fail
    - Those that succeed take roughly fourteen months

    Now let's look at open source.

    - More than 99% of open source projects fail
    - Those that succeed take roughly ten years

    I don't know. Is there a problem there? It certainly looks that way to me.

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

    name names

    says the anonymous coward

  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Re:Nothing really is wrong except one thing. by jt2377 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    dude, shut the fuck up. you just fucking playing with words. if i created something, you do not have any rights to copy my works, period! stupid fuck! talking shits out of your ass trying to justifie theft. Why don't you work for free?