AusCert 2010: Brilliant engineers in Microsoft walled-garden
May 20, 2010, 16:32 (7 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Darren Pauli)
"Linux communities are hostile and Microsoft is a walled garden
"stuffed-full of brilliant engineers", according to a former Linux,
now Microsoft engineer, Crispin Cowan.
"In an AusCERT 2010 presentation titled "a Linux guy in a
Microsoft world", Cowan said the stereotypes of Microsoft engineers
as "baroque money-hogs", and Linux engineers as "open, passionate
experts" were not "entirely true". The Different Types of UPS
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""Linux communities are shockingly hostile to women and newbies,
attack failures to conform to norms and God help you if you top
post," Cowan said. "Everyone is a butt-head."
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