A tour of the Microsoft open source lab [LWN.net]

A tour of the Microsoft open source lab

Posted Mar 22, 2008 9:49 UTC (Sat) by darwish07 (guest, #49520)
In reply to: A tour of the Microsoft open source lab by sramji
Parent article: A tour of the Microsoft open source lab

Don't really worry about that. There are two kinds of OSS people. The first are those who are
most of the time busy doing real work and you won't find them in those kind of flames.

The second is just people with _lots_ of free time who like to play the "us and them" game.
a.k.a, slashdot, digg, (some little portion of LWN comments when the article is _non_
technical, LWN can't be blamed for this portion though).

I'm sure Corbet had a good point in his mind to post this article.

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A tour of the Microsoft open source lab

Posted Mar 22, 2008 22:27 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

What!?! There are few free software developers who can resist the urge of getting into a good flamewar. Renowned Linux hackers such as Ingo Molnar or Al Viro have spent disproportionate amounts of time here on LWN debating on philosophical issues. Even Linus himself is renowned for his flaming abilities, although sadly not on this site.

As to the lot of dilettantes, where I humbly belong, we try to learn and do what we can to spread free software, including small contributions. The frontier between the doer and the thinker is not so clear in our community. But I can guess that most of us sadly don't have lots of free time; I know I don't.

If a blog post on a corporate site sucks then it is fair to criticize it, wherever it comes from. And you know that a site sucks big time when the intro has typos:

This represents an open conversation dedicated Linux, Windows and open source interoperability.

A boss moaning about "what a good boy Steve is" is not likely to get much respect here.