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Only Idiots Don't Give Back To Free Software
Julie188 writes "Downstream projects who take without contributing back to the upstream project defeat the benefit of open source and sooner or later, all organizations developing on top of open source code will realize this, contends Jim Zemlin, executive director of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. So the time for cajoling those users — even commercial projects like Canonical — into participating is over. Contributing is 'not the right thing to do because of some moral issue or because we say you should do it. It's because you are an idiot if you don't,'" he says."
Update: 08/30 21:40 GMT by S : Reworded summary to clarify that Zemlin wasn't referring to end users.
...sometimes idiots *do* give back to free software.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
Not inflammatory enough.
Seriously.
Think of the page views. Why won't ANYONE think of the PAGE VIEWS?
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
So what he's essentially saying is "if you don't believe or act like me, you're an idiot". He'd be a perfect fit for our Congress. Hey - I even have a campaign slogan for him: "Vote for me or you're an idiot!"
incredibly fucking awesome engineers get paid megabucks to do their job and then they jump in their Ferrari, go home to their lingerie model wife, get a blowjob right before their private chef serves them their meal, and then, if he's in the mood, bangs her sister - the swim suite model - while the wife watches and masturbates.
BTW, you'll never see them post on Slashdot because:
They're creating awesome World saving software
They're shopping for a new Ferrari
Banging their model Wife or her sister or her lingerie model friends or all of them at once.
Or he's reading tech journals while sipping single malt 500 year old scotch.
Sleeping from all the work and model banging he has been doing.
Post it as a front-page story--then we promise to be impressed.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.