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Open source has me brainwashed
- PaulHoule 12y agoIt's a general sort of problem. A lot of the population of the US fought in WWII so there were a lot of people who wouldn't buy a "Jap" car no matter what so Detroit didn't need to compete on quality until the 1990s when finally the "greatest generation" aged enough to (1) not matter, (2) not care about the war, (3) got burned by enough bad American cars that detroit was in trouble. When the 2008 crisis hit, even the last outposts of American car consumers such as police departments, were stuck on American cars. Our local sheriff bought a few hondas that they used as undercover cars and it was funny to see hondas behaving like police cars. Now Detroit did start turning things around in terms of quality and even makes some good cars, but the damage was done. I see the same thing with software. There are some people who think Microsoft can do no wrong. There are other people who think all open source is better than closed source. Both are wrong. The best Microsoft software is great, the worst is awful. Same with Linux. Being a fanboy means you are blind to this and you'll make some pretty bad decisions.