latest Forrester report

latest Forrester report

I'd propose to more or less ignore anyone using the "socialist" (or
"un-american") attribute to free software. These people sympathise with
McCarthyism, which is "fashism light" - right-winged oppression without
the killing. It's like people who use the word "jerk". They don't refer
to sexual practises. Many people who use the word "socialist" in context
of free software or open source don't want to talk about ideologies. It's
just a dirty word for them.

Therefore, professional authors should stay away from the word
"socialist", the same as a professional author would not use the words
"jerk" or "asshole". Since the article more or less gives the advice to
stay away from real free software/open source programmers, and hire
"sceptics" instead, I (as free software author) feel insulted. That's
worse than simply being unprofessional.