FOSS: time to stop the navel-gazing

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Sep 27, 2008 6:53 PM EDT
iTWire; By Sam Varghese
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Discussions about free and open source software can arouse strong emotions. That's something I've known for many years but one often tends to forget these things in the rush of daily life. It comes back to you in a flash when someone reacts in a totally unbalanced way to something you've written or said, a totally harmless comment that should be absolutely inoffensive when considered logically. But logic rarely comes into the picture when people feel that you are criticising the free and open source community and anything associated with it.

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well... tuxchick 13 1,245 Sep 30, 2008 2:35 PM

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