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There Is No Open Source Community
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Yes there is an Open Source Community.
A friend of mine,,,he actually built Lobby4Linux from the ground up, would argue the main point. If we are to find the word community as "a group of like-minded people intent on the betterment of the group as a whole", how can anyone deny the existance of the Linux Community.
Case in point...With PCLOS, it was impossible to get firefox to open a link to Thunderbird. My friend Okie looked at the problem and provided the fix Since it works for about 80 percent of the people who use it, I would consider this a gift to the community. We might not have a water tower and a volunteer fire department, but the Linux Community is indeed viable and active.
Case in point...With PCLOS, it was impossible to get firefox to open a link to Thunderbird. My friend Okie looked at the problem and provided the fix Since it works for about 80 percent of the people who use it, I would consider this a gift to the community. We might not have a water tower and a volunteer fire department, but the Linux Community is indeed viable and active.
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This article lacks soul
I read the article more than one time and the guy produced a flawed article. He used four pages to say nothing of interest. He provides no empirical data, seems self-serving and generates no eye openers. I thought about writing something to rebute the article, but I cannot find anything worth discussing.
As a copy editor, he would not survive the first pass. From strictly a grammatical and functional perspective, one would have to write the article again to make it readable. Then, we have the content to evaluate and the article lacks substance.
I still believe we should have posted it. He provides an opportunity for us to comment on sophomoric writing. He also exposes a movement within the community where people attempt to monetize open source software without any means of doing so.
As a copy editor, he would not survive the first pass. From strictly a grammatical and functional perspective, one would have to write the article again to make it readable. Then, we have the content to evaluate and the article lacks substance.
I still believe we should have posted it. He provides an opportunity for us to comment on sophomoric writing. He also exposes a movement within the community where people attempt to monetize open source software without any means of doing so.
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The question isn't "is there an Open Source Community or not?" but rather "why shouldn't there be Open Source Community with political ideas and ideological leanings?." The article suggests that the idealism and longing for a better world that often accompanies use of Open Source is a silly, unfounded opinion that isn't really held by anyone.
In this he is wrong.
Linux is a gift beyond words. If I wanted a computer setup with an equivalent amount of software from the proprietary world it would costs me 1000's of pounds. Yet here I sit, with the whole lot for free. Thus enabled how can I not try to put something back. And then the penny begins to drop, "hey, this is about me being given the opportunity to join in and help". It's wonderful. Not shut out by the self appointed elite, but welcomed as a human being. Everyone should have a chance to find this.
I suppose it's inevitable that those whose eye is on the profit line should find and make use of Open Source in order to maximise their profit. They have missed the point and show capitalism for what it is. A heartless, selfish doctrine that is interested only in its own improvement at any cost. And just as the mobile phone companies prosper from the chaos and death in the Congo, playing one warlord off against another in order to keep the price of Coltan down, so Open Source is defenseless against those who see an opportunity to exploit the price tag and make a few more coins per year.
So, despite the cynicism of business and the way some are prepared to roll over and be self deceived in order to attract business (another pointer to the true nature of capitalism is the way it demands it's adherents deny reality, "what global warning?, what pollution?, what exploited workforce?") the ideological angle that some have found through Open Source will continue to spread.
Vive la revolution!