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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>>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.<<
Unfortunatly if you frequent Slashdot, ZDNet, Yahoo, and even OSNews you mainly see the "extreme" people you talk about. Mostly it's the Linux crowd. I've seen many stories where Microsoft isn't even mentioned and the very first message on the board is by some Linux troll badmouthing M$ and preaching Open Source and Linux. If these posts are your only exposure to the OSS crowd, you will think of them as arrogant and childish.