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Linux Elitism: Fact or Fiction?
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| Most open source enthusiasts want more people to embrace Free and Open Source
| Software solutions, but just like how the style of products is important to
| Apple aficionados, familiarity with the terminal and an appreciation of the
| under-the-hood mechanics matter to the FOSS lovers. That said, FOSS has an
| added element absent from the corporate-backed technologies. Whereas fans of
| products made by rather large businesses need to appeal in aggregate (or
| focus groups) to get noticed in the product design process, FOSS is a
| free-for-all. Anyone is free to bring anything to the table. While a lot of
| folks may get corporate logo tattoos and/or pontificate about what
| such-and-such company did right or wrong, few of them will ever have any
| actual input. On the other hand, if Joe Sixpack wants to make his own Linux-
| or BSD-based operating system with his own logo and software, he's free to do
| that. FOSS is based on empowerment and the appreciation of empowerment, and
| with empowerment comes responsibility.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/65853.html
Related:
Linus odia C++
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| From: Linus Torvalds linux-foundation.org
| Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String
| Library.
| Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git
| Date: 2007-09-06 17:50:28 GMT (1 day, 1 hour and 59 minutes ago) On Wed, 5
| Sep 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote:
| >
| > When I first looked at Git source code two things struck me as odd:
| > 1. Pure C as opposed to C++. No idea why. Please don’t talk about
| > portability,
| > it’s BS.
|
| *YOU* are full of bullshit.
|
| C++ is a horrible language. It’s made more horrible by the fact that a lot
| of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it’s much much
| easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if
| the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out,
| that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
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http://emonk.debianuruguay.org/?p=42
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643/focus=57918
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