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That is what he describes, his point being that rationalisation aside, let's face it we do this because it is fun. "the divide between these two groups seems p
by frossie 17y ago
That is what he describes, his point being that rationalisation aside, let's face it we do this because it is fun.
"the divide between these two groups seems practically unbridgeable"
I don't know enough to comment about whether that is accurate; but I would say that this is one divide that doesn't necessarily need bridging. We're not talking about VHS versus Betamax here; as long as both sides keep doing what they are doing for whatever reasons, everybody wins.
- DarkShikari 17y agoBut often the sides come into conflict. For example, most recently, the Stallman-esque group started a massive marketing campaign for Theora--it's free, so we should use it. This caused the Linus-esque group incredible aggravation, because they cannot understand why someone would want to promote something that is technically inferior in many ways. Equally, the Stallman-esque group cannot understand why the Linus-esque group would even consider using multimedia formats covered by patents--why would anyone do that?--it's against the open source philosophy--and away the argument goes again.