On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:11 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
@Steve, your comments are common trend I've seen with Open Source and they trend so easily. I've never seen Tech people getting so worked up and defensive with passion about something yet they don't share the same passion and drive to do more. It makes no sense to me. Obviously am not aware of why your defensive position, so can only assume that it has something to do with some market sector and my comments don't help. Of course, if you are totally neutral in that you follow/use Open Source purely as a very strong and staunch interest, I must say you are on the wrong side then to not have the same drive as some of us.
You have no idea what I do and what I don't do. You have no idea what I'm passionate about or what drives me. Neither do you know any of this about most of the other list members. I'm only defensive about one thing - my right to choose what I want to use how I choose to. All I'm saying is, let people choose what they want to use, open source or proprietary. Let them learn from their experiences and from their mistakes. Don't insult others simply because they have a different point of view. In a previous thread, you referred to to open source systems as products of morons. You have no idea how many people you insulted with that statement since it implies we who use them are morons. I guess I'll continue being a moron. Just don't insult me for choosing to be a moron, because I don't know absolutely everything there is to know. And if you must know, it's nothing to do with marketing anything. I'm with a global proprietary systems vendor, but I use OSS alongside other products every day. If anything, the best lessons I've learnt my whole working life was while working with OSS systems. Maybe you're brilliant enough to create everything you use in terms of computing, but I guess most of us are just average. Just don't insult us for being who we are and trying to get by with what we've got. BR S