[plug] [OT] - anybody read this interesting take on OFOS?

[Mr Shayne]

In the guys defence, I dont think english is his primary language. But in 
that he has writeen what appears to be an entire book about how crap 
th various FOSS luminaries are I cant help thinking this guy has some sort
of axe to grind. What a prick.

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On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Alex Nordstrom wrote:

> Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:36 skrev Richard Meyer:
>> http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Torvalds/index.shtml
>>
>> Wierd interpretation of Linux and Linus .....
>
> Fair enough if one wants to caution of the dangers of personality cults,
> but how bitter would one have to be to produce an ad hominem attack the
> length (if not the quality) of an academic thesis so rank that it
> contributes little other substance to the collective wisdom than a new
> definition for vindictiveness?
>
> And it turns out that this is not the only strike of his genius. Another
> one of Dr. Bezroukov's attacks was aimed at ESR, who rebuked it thusly:
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/response-to-bezroukov.html
>
> For someone who titles himself a doctor (though it is unclear what his
> actual degree is; his supposed employer, Fairleigh Dickinson University
> in New Jersey, USA, does not return any hits when searching their Web
> site for his name), I found Bezroukov's ramblings rather incoherent,
> lacking in both presentation and research.
>
> Maybe it's just that I, like Torvalds, come from a home of two
> journalists (and therefore, as Bezroukov writes of him and his alleged
> conspiracy to gain "superhero" status, "...inherited a journalistic
> talent..." and an understanding of "...how important is (sic) to
> project the right public image..."), but I find myself wondering about
> the author's intentions.
>
> If the motive is sincerely to evoke sympathy for the opinions put forth,
> why adopt such a denigrating and unsympathetic tone? If the desire is
> to provide a convincing argument, why present it in such a sloppy
> manner? Could it be that Dr. Bezroukov simply needs to take a high
> school level course in academic writing?
>
> Jerome Loisel writes a rather well-phrased response to the good doctor's
> tirades, which I think sums up the overall feeling invoked by
> Bezroukov's "paper": http://lwn.net/2000/0120/backpage.php3 (fifth
> down)
>
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