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Apertus, the Open Source HD Movie Camera
osliving writes "This article takes a tour of the hardware and software behind the innovative Apertus, a real world open source project. Led by Oscar Spierenburg and a team of international developers, the project aims to produce 'an affordable community driven free software and open hardware cinematic HD camera for a professional production environment'."
I never understood all the hate towards open source by trolls here on Slashdot. Like anything, the way the open source community operates has flaws just like any other community....but what about it butthurts people so badly that they have to troll about it?
Living With a Nerd
In OSS, if everyone can't agree on something, it either stalls or splits projects into forks which isn't always a good thing. Stalling means you can't rely on whatever the group is/was working on, and forks means the workforce of the old and the new forked project has been split too, sometimes leading to the death of the original, the fork or both.
In a company, someone or at least a group usually has the last say in how something should be done so that things can move forward. Like Oracle buying everything left and right and closing doors to projects used world-wide. Oh wait...
Um, no. I think very few people here have a beef against the idea of open source. I use some open source software when it suits my needs and works well enough. If it does what you want it to do, why not?
I think the anger is lashing out at the FOSS community. While some are level-headed, some are not and come off like raving zealots. I've never seen tech zealotry on the level of a FOSS fanatic. Even the most obnoxious Apple yuppie fanboy can't hold a candle to the lunatic ravings of the FOSS nuts. It's sad, really, because we get some good stuff out of the FOSS community, but there are just too many asperger's-riddled neckbeards who refuse to budge on the smallest, stupidest things and will sure as hell let you know it.
It's not open source we mock. It's the hardline element of the open source community.