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Mar 21, 2008, 00 :00 UTC (13 Talkback[s]) (2963 reads)

The Objective Observer: Penguin Suicide Bombers

"Because it is widely understood that for anything to have any real meaning or be properly studied that it must first be stripped of its outward trappings and pigeon-holed as narrowly as possible, I, The Objective Observer, have risen to the challenge and will now properly classify the open source movement. In three scintillating acts I will first describe what open source is, dispel certain myths and pejorative characterizations of it (what open source isn't) and finally analyze the open source movement's goals and tactics to properly and succinctly explain its true nature..."

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"The Objective Observer wrote an article entitled, "Penguin Suicide Bombers: The Terrorism of Open Source". The article is quite inflammatory although along the way the author tries to justify his handle. In any event, I thought it important to give the author the benefit of the doubt and to try my best to set the record straight... or my version of it anyway... in as positive a way as possible. What follows are the two, somewhat quick emails (please forgive any typos) I sent in response to the article... oh, and I'll be happy to include any responses I get back from him if any..."

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Go to the the guy's home page.  He&# ...   A better rebuttal   
JJS
Mar 21, 2008, 00:36:28
 
At least he is good for a laugh.... Lets ...   Re: A better rebuttal   
brian
Mar 21, 2008, 00:53:45
 
Just look at some of the other articles  ...   Why bother?   
James
Mar 21, 2008, 02:18:29
 
It's the way Microsoft's diatrib ...   Bigotry is a worse curse than ignorance   
Sid Boyce
Mar 21, 2008, 02:29:47
 
...so little humor. Even if you don' ...   so many geeks...   
farnold
Mar 21, 2008, 03:12:49
 
> ...so little humor. Even if you don&#3 ...   Re: so many geeks...   
blackhole
Mar 21, 2008, 07:30:35
 
 ...so little humor. Even if you don&#39 ...   Re: so many geeks...   
GreyGeek
Mar 21, 2008, 11:45:39
 
Unfortunately, the entire article is bas ...   Amusing read   
Cabal
Mar 21, 2008, 12:45:28
 
> Historically, the Arab-Israel conflict ...   Re: Re: so many geeks...   
Onan the Barbarian
Mar 21, 2008, 15:21:59
 
It's always difficult to judge ' ...   Worth a read.   
Rainer Weikusat
Mar 21, 2008, 15:55:16
 
... his site runs on Apache.  Can we cal ...   He's a terrorist because...   
David F. Skoll
Mar 21, 2008, 16:02:34
 
Onan the Barbarian, GreyGeek, the Israel ...   Re: Re: Re: so many geeks...   
judecn
Mar 22, 2008, 00:07:41
 
 Click on the link to "Why Pi?" at the O ...   ROFLMAO   
jp
Mar 22, 2008, 02:18:58
 
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