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Tribalism Is the Enemy Within, Says Shuttleworth
climenole points out a post from Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth about internal strife in the free software community. He wrote,
"Tribalism is when one group of people start to think people from another group are 'wrong by default.' It's the great-granddaddy of racism and sexism. And the most dangerous kind of tribalism is completely invisible: it has nothing to do with someone's 'birth tribe' and everything to do with their affiliations: where they work, which sports team they support, which Linux distribution they love. ... Right now, for a number of reasons, there is a fever pitch of tribalism in plain sight in the free software world. It's sad. It's not constructive. It's ultimately going to be embarrassing for the people involved, because the Internet doesn't forget. It's certainly not helping us lift free software to the forefront of public expectations of what software can be."
Ignore him.
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
Just the sort of intellectual whining I'd expect from an Ubunt-dude.
And the other 20% is stupidity.
ST vs. Amiga
Mac vs. Amiga
Mac vs. IBM PC
Windows vs. Linux
Republicans vs. Democrats
Racists (R) vs. Racists (D)
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
It's called Open Source. Get it right!
Kind of like the Common Climate Pattern deniers?
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
People who think people from another group are 'wrong by default' are wrong!
If this was Startrek the androids head would now explode.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
So tribalism == politics. Got it!
Teabaggers aren't racist, just wrong.
Hardly. Windows users' expectations of software are that it will crash too often and it'll be complicated to the point of unusability. Free software supports 4096 hot swappable CPUs.
Fixed
I see what you did there.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
Mod this one down. I disagree with it's sentiment.
Unfortunately, at this stage, changing civics would cause civil unrest, and we're only three turns away from finishing the Oracle, and five turns away from the Pyramids.....
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
Sorry, Linux won't support scissoring until 2.6.38, the patch is still pending. And by patch I mean dental dam.
"The public expectations of software are not particularly rigorous -- it shouldn't crash too often, it should look moderately pretty, and it should get them on the web. Done, done, and done. Can we go back to arguing and tribalism now?"
Which is why I no longer run Ubuntu. I found it terrible and the least stable Linux Distro. I am shocked people stand by it as it makes Windows look far supperior. My wife wont touch it anymore with a ten foot pull and was happy to return to Vista. Tribalism and inertia really put most of the Linux users with Ubuntu and its hard to convince them of anything else.
http://saveie6.com/
Mod this one down. I disagree with it's sentiment.
I disagree with whatever you have to say simply because you're pissing off Bob :)