Re: Wagner: "Actions speak louder than words:They're saying 'Linux Sucks'"
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:00:54AM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote:
> Has anyone here see the following, and if so, has anyone
> answered Wagner's propaganda?
>
> Art
>
> http://www.worldtechtribune.com/worldtechtribune/template.asp
> "Actions speak louder than words:They're saying "Linux Sucks'"
> Special to WorldTechTribune
> Joseph D. Wagner
> February 24, 2003
My initial reaction: Who cares? People like "Joseph D. Wagner" are
always going to find something wrong with linux. Good for them.
Personally, I had never heard of WorldTechTribune before today. I
don't anticipate reading it often after today, for two reasons:
1) ending a (so-called) technical story about how linux doesn't
measure up security-wise with the phrase "Linux Sucks" is less than
professional. It's what most of us would call flame-bait.
Personally, I'm not interested in participating in a flame war on
someone else's turf.
2) Starting a story referring to the "Bizarre style of Open Source
programming" tells me that the author and editor have probably never
participated in a serious programming effort. Many successful software
products have large teams of programmers working together in a way
that at least mimics the ideals of open source even if the product is
not open source to the world at large. In my opinion, some of the
Extreme Programming ideals are similar to those of open source.
Not to mention that "Bizarre" is a very bad pun for "Bazaar".
My conclusion: people like Joseph D. Wagner are like the guy who walks
into the bar and starts telling people they have a tiny dick: he's
looking for a fight.
--
Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them WHAT to do and
they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-- Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
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