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• Open sourcers aren't all angels (Score:2)

  by brian_d_foy (44)

  Like it or not, "Open Source" has a militant right wing. mi2g may be idoitic or crass, but the kernel of what they are saying is not something they made up.
  
  It's not unreasonable to imagine a group of slashdot kiddies attacking SCO, although I think a lot of people have a problem realizing open source has bad people like every other community.
  • Re:Open sourcers aren't all angels (Score:2)

    by TeeJay (2309) on 2004.11.25 4:02 (#36314) Homepage Journal

    There is hardly a militant wing. The typical slashdot kiddies are running windows these days and couldn't code their way out of a paper bag

    It is fairly obviously a botnet, of windows computers controlled by a single person. Maybe 1 or 2 people. That doesn't make a militant wing or a minority any more than ted bundy was a militant wing of men.

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    @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
    print reverse @JAPH;

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    • Re:Open sourcers aren't all angels (Score:2)

      by brian_d_foy (44)

      And the death threats to Darl McBride? And Eric Raymond advocating people kicking Jonathon Schwartz in the theeth?
      
      Sounds pretty militant to me. I'm not talking about this one incident.
      • Re:Open sourcers aren't all angels (Score:2)

        by TeeJay (2309)

        I don't believe Darl McBride has received death threats. If you follow groklaw you will see a history of Darl and SCO making unfounded claims about threats and hackers and nothing actually happening (i.e. self-inflicted outages, FBI unaware of threats and taking no action, etc).

        Eric Raymond is a nut. There are other nuts, some of whom might be arsed to use a virus to control a botnet to DDOS sco, but they are no shady group that tries to recruit.

        They are a few bad apples, but independant loner bad apple

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        @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
        print reverse @JAPH;