Man Assaulted for being an Open Source Advocate? WTF!

March 6, 2009 Posted by mitch | open-source, thoughts | 0 Comments

So, I was reading my daily dose of digg and I came across a story about a guy with one very upset windows support "tech" yelling at him in a gas station. And, I have to say, its ridiculous. I mean... its been the case for many years that Microsoft has created a whole ecosystem around fixing their Broken OS(tm). But to say that Open Source is the reason these people are loosing their jobs? Pfft, if they couldn't see that this Open Source(tm) thing wasn't a fad, then they deserve to loose their job. The Technology Field isn't about just one Technology (Broken OS spoken of previously), its about many different ones, that all work together (some better than others... see previous comments) and form what's commonly just referred to as "technology". Which also has a saying, which even those asshats would know, is that its constantly changing, as soon as something makes it to market... its outdated within a month. Just the nature of the beast, and you learn to roll with it. I would also say that being able to roll with it, and not locking myself down to any one particular technology is the reason I've gotten as far as I have in my own career. I definitely have my preferences(see my blog...), but that guy just needs to find his cheese.

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