ONLamp: Open Source Insecurity

“Spontaneous outbursts can reveal much about group behavior.
Advocates of open source showed such a moment on the first day of
the Ottawa Linux Symposium, about which I recently reported at
length. But the incident I am thinking of was recorded for history
in a Newsforge article by David ‘cdlu’ Graham:

“He [Doug Fisher] wrapped up his presentation to the usual
polite applause and closed his slide show to reveal the message
‘Windows XP has locked your desktop,’ resulting in the single
loudest and most sustained booing by nearly everyone present I have
ever heard, followed by a member of the audience rushing to the
front brandishing a Linux installation CD to widespread
applause…”

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