On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Rich Vázquez <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think sophomoric approaches to criticism are bad, but I also find > the community also has extreme urge to abate any criticism of > Microsoft at all. > > People dislike Microsoft because of their historical architecture and > business practices. They have, after all, settled with several > governments on the issue of their business practices. I criticize > Apple as well on their closed nature (A creative commons stickers > covers the Mac logo on my MacBook and glows nicely). > > I think criticism should be more presentable, but I'd also like to see > the growing culture of apologetic open source proponents change. I've > heard too many open source presentations start with "Not to bash X". > A lot of time it seems to come from consultants who butter their bread > with both sides. Nothing wrong with that (I'm apologizing), but we > shouldn't consistently apologize for promoting open source over closed > source (or in addition too). > > -- > Rich Vázquez > > +1 I'd also add that the "$" in "M$" has nothing to do with money and everything to do with ethics. You can assign whatever labels you want to someone who uses "M$" but that doesnt make it true. dan
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