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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Microsoft is associated with quality because that is the first company most people hear of when they purchase their first computer.
There is this fiction that if they aren't "running Microsoft software", they're some how behind the "8th ball". It is all about marketing, without marketing, Microsoft would never had grown to the size it is today.
As for "OpenSource Arrogance". First of all:
1) The OpenSource community is a large and diverse community of people, ranging from the extreme "everything should be GPL and proprietary" to the pragmatic that accepts there can be peaceful co-existance between the two developer ideals. How dare some one, such as the half-wit from Advogato come up with pre-emptive conclusions based on nothing but cheap rhetoric and arrogance.
2) The OpenSource community either follows a standard that has been developed by a coalition of companies or developes one themselves, such as OGG Vorbis. Microsoft has a fixation that if it is developed by others, then obviously, it is inferior. The same complex behind Windows NT. Forget the fact that there are openstandards like the UNIX specifications and POSIX, why not just go ahead and re-invent the wheel to satisfy some zealot hatred of other companies.
3) Most OpenSource people aren't as extreme has RMS. If RMS wants to toot his horn, then so be it. He has the right of freedom of speech, which he exercises. People who think that he some how "represents the OSS movement" should truely get their brains examined. It would be like saying that every Microsoft employee agree's with the ideas of management.