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:ZDNet UK: Open Source Needs Sex Education
ZDNet UK: Open Source Needs Sex Education
Aug 2, 2006, 00 :45 UTC (7 Talkback[s]) (5949 reads)

"Open source development is about communities as much as it is about writing software. At their best, those communities can be highly effective meritocracies, encouraging exceptional people to produce exceptional code. More often, though, they can be forbidding places for those who don't fit in. Ask the wrong question in the wrong way, and the scorn will eat through your screen like acid.

"There's nothing unique about this aspect of open source development: any tight clique responds to outsiders in this way..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
Very interesting analogy :-)  ...   Open source as free (like in libre) sex   
bsd.forever
Aug 2, 2006, 01:24:30
 
Considering that FOSS is voluntary work, ...   Cheap shot   
JJS
Aug 2, 2006, 02:30:59
 
I would hope that my opinion is worth ju ...   Enema   
da
Aug 2, 2006, 04:22:04
 
The observation that a large part of FOS ...   It doesn't.   
Rainer Weikusat
Aug 2, 2006, 10:11:54
 
There is probably a tradition among engi ...   There's a tradition here . . .   
Ron Bentley
Aug 2, 2006, 14:13:59
 
What's so hard about a little polite ...   Re: There's a tradition here . . .   
alice sysadmin
Aug 2, 2006, 17:13:19
 
> What's so hard about a little poli ...   Re: Re: There's a tradition here . . .   
Ron Bentley
Aug 2, 2006, 19:43:53
 
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