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Opinion: Reasons To Shun Open Source-ry (TechWeb)Opinion: Reasons To Shun Open Source-ry (TechWeb)Posted Aug 14, 2003 0:40 UTC (Thu) by jonabbey (guest, #2736)In reply to: Opinion: Reasons To Shun Open Source-ry (TechWeb) by davidl Parent article: Opinion: Reasons To Shun Open Source-ry (TechWeb) Hm, really? I just spent 20 minutes writing him. I thought his column was actually quite frank and honest.. humble, even, after a fashion. It's incredibly common for supporters of a minority platform to get extremely zealous in advocacy. Rob may be a bit blinded by that as of the writing of this column (and I'm sure that the howls of outrage he'll receive after writing it won't help), but the fact is that while zealous advocacy is symptomatic of minority status, it's not symptomatic of permanent minority status. I'm looking forward to seeing if/how he responds to my non-flaming comments. Judging from his column, I expect him to be able to acknowledge at least a degree of truth in my comments.
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Opinion: Reasons To Shun Open Source-ry (TechWeb) Posted Aug 14, 2003 1:40 UTC (Thu) by jonabbey (guest, #2736) [Link] And in fact, I just got a very pleasant and thoughtful reply from him.I think a lot of people get their hackles up so much at the threat that the minority position that they've signed up for will be destroyed that anyone who says anything contrary to the position is treated as an outsider and attacked. In his reply, Rob mentioned that one of his big impetuses for writing the article was seeing someplace that one of the BSD founders received death threats from linux supporters for bringing up the issue of IP risks in Linux. I fully agree with him that Linux users and boosters need to keep that kind of behavior in check.
Opinion: Reasons To Shun Open Source-ry (TechWeb) Posted Aug 16, 2003 10:22 UTC (Sat) by davidl (guest, #12156) [Link] Oh yer, he's pleasant alright - but comes up with total rubbish.
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