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Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists' (ZDNet)Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists' (ZDNet)Posted Apr 7, 2005 20:46 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222)Parent article: Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists' (ZDNet)
There are extremists in every aspect of software, from development to sales, and some of them (even in the Microsoft camp) will do anything to discredit people who support a competitor. I have even seen consultants deliberately bend managers' ears regarding the competency of regular staff, in order to get more work for themselves.
The difference between the two camps is this:
The Linux zealots are public about their behavior, the "proprietary software" zealots are not.
Frankly, I'd rather have people make a lot of noise and smoke over the Yankee Group's survey in public, than have a proprietary-software zealot consultant ruin someone's career in secret. At least the Yankee Group can defend itself in public. The family breadwinner isn't likely to get that chance.
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Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists' (ZDNet) Posted Apr 8, 2005 6:29 UTC (Fri) by nchip (guest, #13292) [Link] "The other side does it too" is hardly a valid reason. Nazi/TerroristCorollary left as an user exercise. http://www.datasync.com/~rogerspl/Advocacy-HOWTO-6.html Extremism/Advocacy in forums/newsgroups rarely changes "the other side's" mind, while well documented, easy to use high quality free software will eventually. There is a lot of tasks in Free Software scene that do not need hardcore programming skills.
Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists' (ZDNet) Posted Apr 8, 2005 11:02 UTC (Fri) by penguinroar (guest, #14460) [Link] Nazis?
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Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists' (ZDNet) Posted Apr 8, 2005 14:14 UTC (Fri) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222) [Link] I think anyone who does this should be banned from the Internet! Either that, or someone should come up with an "anti-Nazi" ploy that works to keep a thread alive, and then the perp should *still* be banned from the Internet!
Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists' (ZDNet) Posted Apr 9, 2005 14:55 UTC (Sat) by XERC (guest, #14626) [Link] nyone who does this should be banned from the Internet!Well, as the extremists was the topic here .... :D
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