Comments on: Peace, Love, and Linux http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4196/ Open Source, Open Standards Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:19:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Michael Wood http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4196/#comment-587 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:44:40 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4196/#comment-587 "Hippies were perceived as unclean, depraved young people who eschewed jobs and wanted to escape from responsibility and the Vietnam War." Perception is reality. Comparing the open source movement to the Hippie movement is incredibly unfair to the open source movement. Open source is about finding a new system for doing things, not throwing out systems altogether and promoting complete anarchy. “Hippies were perceived as unclean, depraved young people who eschewed jobs and wanted to escape from responsibility and the Vietnam War.”

Perception is reality. Comparing the open source movement to the Hippie movement is incredibly unfair to the open source movement. Open source is about finding a new system for doing things, not throwing out systems altogether and promoting complete anarchy.

]]> by: paltus http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4196/#comment-586 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:34:57 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4196/#comment-586 Great and touching article, thank you! Great and touching article, thank you!

]]> by: fjgaude http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4196/#comment-585 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:18:35 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4196/#comment-585 We dig, man... let the good times roll. We dig, man… let the good times roll.

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