Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 20th Dec 2002 12:41 UTC
"The Open Source community's answer is to ignore Microsoft's incredible technological lead - because it is proprietary and not a standard - and instead focusses on their own cool thing and self-gratifying cool features, because they think they can do better (which is where the ignorance combined with ego comes in)." Join the discussion at Advogato.
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Arrogance and outdated are certainly the main characteristic of open-source. And arrogance is a very consensual term for what is in fact a bad blend of ignorance and integrism.
What is pointed out this article is the importance of standard, which have never needed to be, or not to be, open-source. The W3C attitude about paying for standard publication is very significative on this point.
Anyway open-source have a strong advantage, they are, currently..., free as beer. And if your don't need state of the art, Linux is perfectly suited. Just run Celestia, after installing it (only a problem under Linux of course), on Linux and W2K to understand the diffrence between state of art, W2K, and outdated, Linux...
One more time, when you pay 0$, you get the amount of quality your money have purchased.
To finish, thank you Eugenia for posting something from Advogato. Which is a very good site, except maybe from the Linux trolls ;-)))