Tribalism Is the Enemy Within, Says Shuttleworth 655
climenole points out a post from Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth about internal strife in the free software community. He wrote,
"Tribalism is when one group of people start to think people from another group are 'wrong by default.' It's the great-granddaddy of racism and sexism. And the most dangerous kind of tribalism is completely invisible: it has nothing to do with someone's 'birth tribe' and everything to do with their affiliations: where they work, which sports team they support, which Linux distribution they love. ... Right now, for a number of reasons, there is a fever pitch of tribalism in plain sight in the free software world. It's sad. It's not constructive. It's ultimately going to be embarrassing for the people involved, because the Internet doesn't forget. It's certainly not helping us lift free software to the forefront of public expectations of what software can be."
Crap (Score:2, Funny)
Ignore him.
Typical. (Score:5, Funny)
Just the sort of intellectual whining I'd expect from an Ubunt-dude.
Re:Politics (Score:5, Funny)
Atari vs. Commodore (Score:4, Funny)
ST vs. Amiga
Mac vs. Amiga
Mac vs. IBM PC
Windows vs. Linux
Republicans vs. Democrats
Racists (R) vs. Racists (D)
Tribalism? (Score:2, Funny)
It's called Open Source. Get it right!
Re:Atari vs. Commodore (Score:4, Funny)
registered users vs. Anonymous Coward
Re:So drop out and there will be one less "tribe" (Score:2, Funny)
Kind of like the Common Climate Pattern deniers?
'wrong by default' people are wrong? (Score:3, Funny)
If this was Startrek the androids head would now explode.
Re:So drop out and there will be one less "tribe" (Score:3, Funny)
So tribalism == politics. Got it!
Re:So drop out and there will be one less "tribe" (Score:1, Funny)
Teabaggers aren't racist, just wrong.
Re:Public expectations... (Score:4, Funny)
Hardly. Windows users' expectations of software are that it will crash too often and it'll be complicated to the point of unusability. Free software supports 4096 hot swappable CPUs.
Fixed
Re:So drop out and there will be one less "tribe" (Score:3, Funny)
I see what you did there.
Re:Trolls, Offtopic, Flamebait (Score:5, Funny)
of course Tribalism is the problem... (Score:3, Funny)
Unfortunately, at this stage, changing civics would cause civil unrest, and we're only three turns away from finishing the Oracle, and five turns away from the Pyramids.....
Re:Public expectations... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Public expectations... (Score:2, Funny)
"The public expectations of software are not particularly rigorous -- it shouldn't crash too often, it should look moderately pretty, and it should get them on the web. Done, done, and done. Can we go back to arguing and tribalism now?"
Which is why I no longer run Ubuntu. I found it terrible and the least stable Linux Distro. I am shocked people stand by it as it makes Windows look far supperior. My wife wont touch it anymore with a ten foot pull and was happy to return to Vista. Tribalism and inertia really put most of the Linux users with Ubuntu and its hard to convince them of anything else.
Re:Trolls, Offtopic, Flamebait (Score:3, Funny)
Mod this one down. I disagree with it's sentiment.
I disagree with whatever you have to say simply because you're pissing off Bob [angryflower.com] :)