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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The author states his motivation a few posts down: the Apache-team won't accept his Samba-code. Therefore they are arrogant and stuck-up.
The author looks more like a typical sore loser, reverting to name-calling.
Microsoft's "superior technology" turns out to be the same technology that the author has imitated and reproduced. So in the end, he tries to claim that his own work is superior to that of the Open Source community.
Maybe it is good work. But if it is, he could always fork off Apache to form Inca (native Americans in samba-producing areas), and let users (and Microsoft lawyers) decide if he's right.
I think the author is dead wrong where he claims Microsoft's "incredible" technical lead.
I believe Microsoft and Open Source are definitely in the same ballpark.
It is always important to watch out for turning arrogant, and therefore introverted. But I don't believe that is a dominant open source characteristic; and if the .Net supporters win over the "embrace-extend-extinguish" supporters within Microsoft, it isn't too dominant there either.