Linux Needs More Haters · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday July 20, 2008 @04:24AM from the dem's-fightin'-woids dept.

Corrupt brings us a ZDNet column by Jeremy Allison, who says Linux could benefit from more "tough love" in order to improve its functionality and popularity. Excerpting: "As Elie Wiesel said, 'the opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.' LinuxHater really doesn't hate Linux, despite the name. No one takes that much time to point out flaws in a product that they completely loathe and despise. The complaints are really cries of frustration with a system that just doesn't quite do what is desired (albeit well disguised). A friend pointed out to me that the best way to parse LinuxHaters blog is to treat it as a series of bug reports. A perl script could probably parse out the useful information from them and log them as technical bug reports to the projects LinuxHater is writing about. Deep down, I believe LinuxHater really loves Linux, and wants it to succeed."

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Don't nobody tell MS or ..... by 3seas · 2008-07-20 05:02 · Score: 0, Offtopic

... be sure to get paid for your complaints about MS Windows. (as opposed to paying them to listen to you).
Re:yea by Joebert · 2008-07-20 05:07 · Score: 0, Offtopic

We're workin on that.

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Re:By that note... by bsDaemon · 2008-07-20 05:07 · Score: 0, Offtopic

FreeBSD is, as the kids say, "t3h r0x0r."