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Linux Needs More Haters

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. There are Linux Haters out there by UnknowingFool · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Seriously, there are people who love and hate thing for no rational reason. Of course you have people with ideological differences. Throw in some people who have based their entire career around MS products for example and are threatened by Linux as it could undermine their livelihood. Then they are certain people who might throw chairs at you.

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  2. Performance, for those who want performance by Geoffrey.landis · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Linux seems to be a great system for people who want to burrow into the guts of the OS and make it do exactly what they want it to do. For people who are mostly just interested in using a computer as a tool to do things that are mostly unrelated to computers, it seems most of its flexibility and capability is wasted.

    I'd affiliate myself not with the Linux-haters, but with the Linux-indifferent.

    How did that old joke go? "It's not true that Linux isn't user-friendly. It's just very selective about who it chooses as friends."

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  3. love...indifference...hate by dwater · · Score: 0, Redundant

    > As Elie Wiesel said, 'the opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.'

    What nonsense.

    Someone tell me the rest is worth reading.

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