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''open-source fundamentalist''??
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| We're not a religion, so we can't have any fundamentalism, nor
| fundamentalists. "Open Source Fundamentalist" just doesn't make any sense.
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http://www.opensource.org/node/338
Technical things are again compared to political ("communism") and religious
("fundamentalist") concepts. The Redmond FUD factory keeps busy. Speaking of
stereotypes:
- From Fiction to Freedom
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| Paranoid Linux is an operating system that assumes that its operator is under
| assault from the government (it was intended for use by Chinese and Syrian
| dissidents), and it does everything it can to keep your communications and
| documents a secret. It even throws up a bunch of "chaff" communications that
| are supposed to disguise the fact that you're doing anything covert. So while
| you're receiving a political message one character at a time, ParanoidLinux
| is pretending to surf the Web and fill in questionnaires and flirt in
| chat-rooms. Meanwhile, one in every five hundred characters you receive is
| your real message, a needle buried in a huge haystack.
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http://paranoidlinux.org/
Related:
The commie smear against open source
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| Because proprietary companies will always spend more of their
| money on marketing than open source outfits, it pops up regularly
| in the best of places, such as at Time Magazine recently. Or
| Microsoft sends CEO Steve Ballmer to London, so he can rant
| about how his lawyers are going to make all Linux users pay
| Microsoft for their stuff.
|
| It's nonsense.
|
| This is not "the gift economy," as Justin Fox calls it in Time.
| This is people taking advantage of the fact that the Internet
| has no distribution costs, which means marketing costs can
| also sink to zero. No ads in Time doesn't make you a communist.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=946
Sounds like another fanboy rant to me
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| I found this comment while I was browsing through an MS-Windows oriented site
| where a blogger said something nasty about Microsoft. It isn't even worth to
| refer to the link, because it has nothing to do with this story. It's about
| the name-calling these Microsoft fans do. I
| heard 'zealots', 'bigots', 'advocates', the whole lot. Words I never knew
| before, because English is not my native tongue. I don't mind to be called a
| fanboy, because that is what I am. What may be not too clear to these
| Microsoft zealots is why I am a fanboy. It's not because I really dig
| this "free the software, free the world" ideology. That came much later. It's
| because I like this "gimme the source" idea.
|
| [...]
|
| As a matter of fact, I think that Microsoft itself has created the "Linux
| fanboys" they are complaining about, just like all the legal trouble they
| have found themselves in the last few decades. In Dutch there is a
| saying "wie goed doet, goed ontmoet", which means that all good things come
| to those who make them happen. I think the reverse is true as well. So next
| time you call me a "Linux fanboy", remember why I became one. To all
| those "Windows fanboys" I'd like to say, I've become a Linux fanboy because I
| have used Linux for a long time. Have you? I know first hand what MS-Windows
| is all about..
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http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/01/sounds-like-another-fanboy-rant-to-me.html
Are Linux users really a feral bunch?
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| It is, however, uncommon for a writer to set out to deliberately provoke
| Linux users with over-the-top stuff - just to prove his contention that said
| users are a bunch of ferals.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15198/1091/
How Not to Treat Your Readership
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| Given how the technology and methods the Linux community uses are constantly
| villified, ridiculed, and held in contempt by competitors; by ill-informed IT
| professionals and hobbyists; and now by journalists who use lies and
| outrageous comments to hold the community's response up for ridicule--is it
| any wonder why the community is so defensive in their responses?
|
| That's not a justification of bad behavior, but it certainly puts such
| responses in another light.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-10-26-025-26-OP-CY
Top 5 Linux Myths
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| The sheer ignorance regarding casual Linux users astounds me to no end. While
| I'm not interested in pointing fingers, there is a lot of misinformation
| about the Linux community, and we will help to dispel some of these myths,
| once and for all.
|
| 1. Linux Users Are Cheap. Ah, this is one of my favorites. It seems that
| Linux users have long since been seen as cheap, despite the fact that so many
| of them in the States earn up to six figures. First, define cheap? Are we
| cheap because we choose not to buy brand new everything with every release of
| our selected OS?
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2618&Itemid=449
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