"With MS, the divisions are political, social, and idealogical.
With Free Software, timezones/distance, language barriers and occasionally egos."
--> Increasingly it seems the free software mob are suffering from political/social/idealogical differences, especially RMS vs not RMS style mentalities. These tendencies show no real desire to die out, even if they are just being put down to "big egos" at the moment, with the kernel VM arguments showing no real signs of abating, it's seemingly determined to go down hill, as the groups fracture and splinter more and more.
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"With MS, the divisions are political, social, and idealogical.
With Free Software, timezones/distance, language barriers and occasionally egos."
--> Increasingly it seems the free software mob are suffering from political/social/idealogical differences, especially RMS vs not RMS style mentalities. These tendencies show no real desire to die out, even if they are just being put down to "big egos" at the moment, with the kernel VM arguments showing no real signs of abating, it's seemingly determined to go down hill, as the groups fracture and splinter more and more.