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I was curious enough to day to have a look at a link-back to yesterday’s blog post. It was at Neowin. The article was about the FSF’s claims for Windows 7 to be shunned and while I don’t fully support their methods or their solely negative event organisation (they never seem to do anything in Boston except complain). So I have my beef with the FSF, I’m going to focus on the comments section to the linked news page.

The reason I was linked-back was because someone had posted my Understanding FOSS pdf and yesterdays blog post about balancing FOSS philosophies. The responses he got were not only insulting and degenerate, but they made me damn glad I work and communicate in a much better community with more manners. It doesn’t matter if you disagree with my politics, but I expect people to have some decorum.

Now the neowin news site does seem to be a bubble of Microsoft lovers and fanatics that seem to put all rational discourse to one side while they savage the “opponent”. Their main argument seems to be: “Well if you can serve me with the exact this I want, then I’ll be your friend”.

I’m sorry but the world doesn’t work like that. There is no free lunch in FOSS and If you don’t agree with the principles, methods and economics then stay away. We have no need for users who only think about their own short term contentment and never of what they can do for others. You’re welcome to use what we have written, it’s already paid for after all.

But I don’t really want these people making up a part of the community until they can reform into decent balanced human beings. I don’t want these people ranting and raving wasting our time and money while contributing nothing of value.

Most of these people are probably just misinformed. But with the egging on that they get from being in a social pro-windows bubble without any code of conduct… they seem to cultivate hatred and an over confidence of the mis-information. I’d attempt to post this message to their community but I don’t think it’s worth it.

As I was explaining to someone yesterday; It’s no our job to save people from their own foolishness, if people are content to ignore our warnings and give away their control of their technology so cheaply, then we can’t really stop them.

Although I was surprised at myself at how much their trashing of ubuntu’s bug #1 got up my nose.

Update: This is just a clarification note, I wanted to highlight the face that I enjoy being in the Ubuntu community because it seems to reduce (but not eradicate) some of the more nasty elements of social echo chambers (bubbles). But we could learn a lot from other communities inability to cope with these things.