It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.
The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.
The reason for the success of this somewhat communist-sounding strategy, while the failure of communism itself is visible around the world, is that the economics of information are fundamentaly different from those of other products.
But the most reliable indication of the future of Open Source is its past: in just a few years, we have gone from nothing to a robust body of software that solves many different problems and is reaching the million-user count. There's no reason for us to slow down now.
Before Ruby on Rails, web programming required a lot of verbiage, steps and time. Now, web designers and software engineers can develop a website much faster and more simply, enabling them to be more productive and effective in their work.
No one cares what operating system you run as long as it stays up.
Well, lets just say, if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you dont want Linux.
You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.
Hair is really where we can be creative. I have my "game hair," which is always different than how I'd wear it at practice.
I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'-- But I don't care! I'm still here!
Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation.