Nine Attitude Problems in Free and Open Source Software (Datamation)

Here's your sermon for the day: Datamation lists a set of perceived "attitude problems" found in the free software community. "Especially in large projects, documenters, testers, artists, marketers and managers -- to say nothing of general end users -- have all become essential contributors. Increasingly, a FOSS software release is becoming a collaboration among people of different skill sets. Yet, despite this change, in many projects, non-developers are given second class treatment. In a large number of cases, they cannot become full members of the project, and are not allowed to vote."

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