Opinion: Reasons To Shun Open Source-ry (TechWeb)

Opinion: Reasons To Shun Open Source-ry (TechWeb)

Posted Aug 14, 2003 1:40 UTC (Thu) by jonabbey (guest, #2736)
In reply to: Opinion: Reasons To Shun Open Source-ry (TechWeb) by jonabbey
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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.

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