“Open-Source Sucks!”

By Jeffrey | October 15, 2007

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Marc Perkel over at Dvorak.org/blog has written a rant on just how much open-source software sucks. It has engendered some, well, “lively” discussion.

However in the open source world you have a lot of people who have a highly inflated sense of importance who think their software is the greatest thing that was ever written and it’s crap!

A sample comment:

This guy comes across as a lazy fool with an ego problem. It’s great to hear that he’s so unconcerned about the quality of his work that he refuses to learn how to use tools on his systems (like editors), and can’t quite grasp the concept that “localhost” means “local to that host”, not “local to some other host via an SSH tunnel”, which frankly to me sounds like a kludge brought about by not wanting to spend the time to do the job properly.

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