>For all the adherents of Open Source and vulgar Marxism:
>>From The Register:
>
>'In an ill-tempered article Nikolai Bezroukov has mounted a personal attack
>on Eric Raymond, author of The cathedral and the bazaar and well-known Linux
>luminary. Raymond is accused of promoting "an over-optimistic and simplistic
>view of open source, as a variant of socialist (or to be more exact, vulgar
>Marxist) interpretation of software development". '
I don't know what it means, but Raymond is a gun nut too, as evidenced by his so-called writings:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings
I've always found the notion that Linux/Open Source is revolutionary a bit silly. Since I'm a PC/Network tech, I come into contact will alot of geeks, and none so far have been much different in political outlook from your average Forbes voter. "It's all up to you ..." "Individual responsibility ... " "The blacks are chained by their gimme-gimme politics ..." (The 'gimme-gimme' part is a Raymond quote.) The anti-Microsoft stuff is a one-trick pony, unrelated to anything else in the real world.
Anecdotally yours, D
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