Open Source·114 discussions

What are people’s thoughts on Open Source as Terrorism

Locked

Interesting parallels between Open Source and terrorism:

http://www.theobjectiveobserver.com/articles/technology03.shtml

Topic

the parallels

In reply to What are people’s thoughts on Open Source as Terrorism

are closer between proprietary software companies and terrorism though.

open source is about choice, not this way of no way like both terrorism and proprietary software want it.

Cmon now Jaqui

In reply to the parallels

You can’t argue with a d’ckhead by being a d’ckhead yourself !!!

In the nicest possible fashion of course …

🙂

Just because the company that invented the wholesale use of “Fear Uncertainty and Doubt” as a professional tool (and I mean IBM of course), was interested only in the proprietary takeover of the entire world, doesn’t mean you can jump to such conclusions ….

However you’ve given a brilliant example of the critical requirement of being the FIRST and LOUDEST to argue any side of an emotional argument !!

One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter

In reply to What are people’s thoughts on Open Source as Terrorism

🙂

Thank you –

In reply to What are people’s thoughts on Open Source as Terrorism

that was absolutely hilarious.

Actually, a Cult would be a better definition

In reply to What are people’s thoughts on Open Source as Terrorism

Actually, it would be more appropriate to classify the Open Source community as a cult rather than a terrorist organization.

If you look at the characteristics described in the article to describe a terrorist organization, they also define a cult.

Comparing the Open Source community to a terrorist organization either shows the authors bias or marketing savvy.

Cults can either grow into social movements, devolve into terrorist groups, or be interesting footnotes in time.

A cult in and of itself is not a problem or a danger unless the members take themselves and the aspirations of their leader to seriously.

Chas

And since we’re all geeks

In reply to Actually, a Cult would be a better definition

would that be the cult of lack of personality? :0

Edit: let’s perpetuate another stereotype…

Damn you Nick!

In reply to And since we’re all geeks

No I have Cult of Personality in my head…WHY GOD!!??? WHY!!???

Oops! :0

In reply to Damn you Nick!

Sorry! :^0

Fear as a weapon

In reply to Actually, a Cult would be a better definition

I think that the “use of fear as a weapon” is the distinguishing factor between terrorism and cult.

That is interesting

In reply to Fear as a weapon

I think if you read any reasonable book about cults and their practises, you’ll find [b]fear[/b] of change, [b]uncertainty[/b] of the outside world, and [b]doubt[/b] about how people will be treated if they were to leave the cult, right up there with other emotional ties that are used to keep the wavering masses locked in.

Then as now. nt

In reply to That is interesting

.

OK, that’s true, but…

In reply to That is interesting

That is using fear as a tool, not as a weapon against someone external to the cult. Open source does make the security argument against M$ in an attempt to sway people to their side.

Just puting up a reasonable

In reply to OK, that’s true, but…

opinion based on facts and real world experience.

Be hard to get to who did what to whom first but

In reply to OK, that’s true, but…

but MS have a whole range of fear based arguments they trot out to ‘combat’ open source, and security is a well known chink (ffs sake the PC muppets are at it again) gap then) in the armour of the general user with windows.

Personally I think they should get hit on quality (code quality !) more often, but the security problems in windows are a highly visible manifestation of that.

Actually reaction against cults is the

In reply to Fear as a weapon

fear of not us.

More to the point, what would you call Awe and Destruction, or panic inducing weapons like the Katyuska and the Nebelwerfer.

What would you call low welfare and high unemployment.

Come to think of it what is the judicial system, or even parental guidance?

All use fear, it’s such a useful weapon, and in the main very effective, unless you over use it, and the victim becomes used to being scared.

Personally, I thought the article

In reply to What are people’s thoughts on Open Source as Terrorism

Was well written with a good use of grammar and
language…

And full of sh*t.

There was enough assumption presented as fact to choke
an elephant and enough globalization of thought to last a
lifetime. Evidence and citation were sadly lacking.

I’d give a 2. Maybe a 3 for sentence structure and lack of
typos.

Tig

In reply to Personally, I thought the article

You trade your (permissible) cloak for the (permissible) sword.

In swinging it, you may have been taken a bit much by the subject without as much eye to the delivery. Or vice-versa. Or one on account of the other.

I had previously skipped reading the original article. Your strong take, however, inveigled me into checking it out.

The semicolons were too frequently misapplied to be typos, I thought. The sentences were too often run on, I thought. The possessives (2) were thoughtless, I thought. The “universally” and the “everyone” were redundant, I thought. The hyphen in “super-model” was unrequired, I thought.

I thought that it was a tongue-in-cheek, jumping-off piece (hyphenation ok?). I wouldn’t go as far as “sh*t.”

But, then, I do characterize you as “consistent,” not absolute, in your comprise. You do know how to swing with unacceptance.

…Edited to add that two more have come in swinging with deep appreciation of the subject.

‘Objective Observer’ indeed

In reply to What are people’s thoughts on Open Source as Terrorism

Don’t waste your breath on this loser.

What a Moron…

In reply to What are people’s thoughts on Open Source as Terrorism

He doesn’t even have the guts to state who he really is. Just another half-thinker, convinced he’s got all the answers, and hiding in the shadows, in case someone call him out on his half-a$$’d remarks. oh-well, it takes all kinds. Maybe he’s a regular guest on that Blush Pimpberg, radio show-off thing. -d

Ohhhhhh, come on, now

In reply to What are people’s thoughts on Open Source as Terrorism

So open source resembles those who fought for independence in the American Revolutionary War? 😀

This was satire, right??? Right???

In reply to What are people’s thoughts on Open Source as Terrorism

NT

It’s only software

In reply to What are people’s thoughts on Open Source as Terrorism

Some, take themselves much too seriosly, My first thought to the author ” get a life “. I doubt if there is anyone who produces software, be it open or closed source, who does so on any politically or idelogical grounds. The reasons I see for writting any software is : to earn a living : for the intelectual stimulation and joy of solving a problem : to impress your peers how clever you are : all seem much more likely reasons to me.

[Author]

Replies