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Spontaneous outbursts can reveal much about group behavior. Advocates of open source showed such a moment on the first day of the Ottawa Linux Symposium, about which I recently reported at length. But the incident I am thinking of was recorded for history in a Newsforge article by David "cdlu" Graham: He [Doug Fisher] wrapped up his presentation to the usual polite applause and closed his slide show to reveal the message "Windows XP has locked your desktop," resulting in the single loudest and most sustained booing by nearly everyone present I have ever heard, followed by a member of the audience rushing to the front brandishing a Linux installation CD to widespread applause.
This article is nothing but psychobabble, the worst kind of new age squishheadedness.
The Media promotes just about anything as "Linux vs Microsoft", and then when people exhibit any enthusiasm, the same media, perhaps in the form of a different pundit, crap on them.
The Media just loves to whip up conflicts, scandals, and promote bad behavior, all to sell pageviews or ads.
The only thing these linux folks were guilty of was having fun at somebody elses expense, if you cant have some fun nowadays what on earth is the point, its not as if the guy is gonna go out and shoot himself through the shame of XP locking up if that was the case i wouldnt be typing this but pushing up the daisy's, the guy just reads far to much into it.
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The Media promotes just about anything as "Linux vs Microsoft", and then when people exhibit any enthusiasm, the same media, perhaps in the form of a different pundit, crap on them.
The Media just loves to whip up conflicts, scandals, and promote bad behavior, all to sell pageviews or ads.