I thought it was mildly amusing and it held my attention. I understand your point of view though; whilst I work a lot with open source software I also work for

I thought it was mildly amusing and it held my attention. I understand your point of view though; whilst I work a lot with open source software I also work for a closed source shop that uses closed source products. As you mention some things will never be an itch that any one would want to scratch and others are just way out of reach, however that shouldn't detract from the benefit that open source software provides, especially to people that have skill but not necessarily domain knowledge: At least they can learn from it, not just build on top or be required to settle for workarounds. However, as you mention, that requires the happy nexus of domain knowledge and computing skill to have contributed some code in the first place. In conclusion I thought the article made enough of a point to be worthwhile, though maybe it's been done to death and could have been delivered in a less snarky fashion