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The tone of the job posting might be laughable, but those aren't in opposition to each other unless you're demanding Stallman levels of fanaticism.
by lazerwalker 13y ago
The tone of the job posting might be laughable, but those aren't in opposition to each other unless you're demanding Stallman levels of fanaticism.
- davidw 13y agoIt hardly requires 'Stallman levels of fanaticism' to prefer an OS that you can explore and tinker with, if you're someone who likes to know - or maybe even tweak - how things work under the hood. A "hacker", in other words.
- lazerwalker 13y agoI tinker and play with Linux all the time, on servers and VMs. Saying that "you don't love open source enough to use an open source OS" implies to me that OSS is intrinsically better and preferable to non-OSS, even if a closed-source alternative would be better for your personal needs. That strikes me as fairly dogmatic (although it's very possible I misread the original intent). I personally use OS X as my desktop OS because it suits my needs, despite contributing regularly to open source. I agree completely that there are many non-'fanatical' reasons to prefer Linux as a desktop OS.