Free, Open, Eating Its Young

“The FOSS (Free/Open Source Software) world is cram-full of
interesting, smart, fun people. It’s also full of trolls, jerks,
and abusive wastes of time, and very confused when it comes to
civility. A lot of FOSSers fall into the Five Geek Social Fallacies
trap, especially the first two:

“Geek Social Fallacy #1: Ostracizers Are
Evil

“‘GSF1 prevents its carrier from participating in–or
tolerating–the exclusion of anyone from anything, be it a party, a
comic book store, or a web forum, and no matter how obnoxious,
offensive, or aromatic the prospective excludee may be. As a
result, nearly every geek social group of significant size has at
least one member that 80% of the members hate, and the remaining
20% merely tolerate…'”

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