The Beez: Who Understands the OSS Community? | Linux Today

The Beez: Who Understands the OSS Community?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 22, 2006

[ Thanks to Hans
Bezemer
for this link. ]

“There are only a few ways to make me mad. Personal attack isn’t
one of them. You can call me geek (which I certainly am), madman
(true, I don’t have any political or diplomatic skills), fanatic
(guilty where OSS is concerned), sexist (and proud of it, just
kidding 😉 or anything else and I won’t even blink. But attack my
work and the wrath of the Nerd will descend on you.

“Whether it concerns a private project or a professional
project, it doesn’t matter. I take pride in my skills and I’m
perfectly aware of what is only a few pages of code to me, is a
tool others have to work with every day. I find that a great
responsibility and after 20 years in this line of work I’m
absolutely aware of that fact…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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