I don't care what anybody else thinks, I 1000% agree with this rant. I feel similarly strongly about it, and have ever since I discovered the whole open source

I don't care what anybody else thinks, I 1000% agree with this rant. I feel similarly strongly about it, and have ever since I discovered the whole open source thing myself several years ago. With gcc, IIRC Richard Stallman was basically just playing cat-and-mouse with feature parity with the commercial compilers for several years. Okay, very impressive investment in terms of total SLOC, but methinks that's a byproduct of a brain being able to excel in exactly the field it's really really good at. Apparently rms wasn't a kernel person (?). Broadly speaking open source gives me the impression of a bunch of people who honestly don't know what they're talking about and who aren't really all that smart. As a collective, that group isn't going to have very good ideas or execution. There are undoubtedly some smart people hiding in the corners, but their work is shunned or scoffed at because of the collective lack of intelligence of the whole. While probably a frustratingly unanswerable question, I've been yearning for an online community for some time that are like-minded toward the idea that open source isn't everything and that there are better things out there.