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The Beez: Who Understands the OSS Community?

[ 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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