The open source commune was rocked when Open Source Ambassador to the UNMe, Chris “factoryjoe” Messina, had his golden tack removed from his seat!
The allegation? Too much love for the Apple kool-aid? No, far worse than that, down right blasphemy! He was overheard preaching:
Open source is the domain of the privileged elite. Unless you have sufficient resources, and are fairly well-to-do, finding the space and wherewithal to give away your work product for free is inaccessible.Furthermore, it is unclear how open source works in mixed situations; contrary to years of liberal progress, open source seems to work best among homogeneous communities that dispel “outsiders”.
Some suggest this heresy is too great to have been the work of one person, and the Webs are being scrutinized to find his collaborators, the “open source liberators”.
This is the first post in what I hope to be a series where open source commies can safely vent while having a little fun relating their “crimes”.
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It’s about time someone started posting about the open source commies and their “crimes”. I look forward to your future posts!
Ayup … definitely about time for someone to say this.
Oh, wait … hey, I’ been hollaring about this for years! (I do tech_docs. I used to put hours into Mozilla, shortly after the source was released, one of a number of projects. But at some point, well, it’s just exploitative.)
My whipping horse at the moment is “crowd-sourcing”. Looks to me that we’re supposed to have “fun” with development while a select few skim off the cream … a variation on MLM, if you ask me.
cheers
–bentrem
p.s. micro-payments … is anybody still working on that?
I think what he said about it working best in closed communities is true. When a group working on an OS project gets too large, they begin to lose focus and the end result suffers.
I have to sadly agree. Open source programmers seem to still be zealots. They are very bigoted against mainstream software. I often have run into problems with interoperability between mainstream software and open source.