Dear Diary
I have a confession to make. I am not an Open
Source programmer. I have a dual life.
One life is
as a professional programmer who writes code for money (the
true definition of professional is one who does
her "profession" for money). That code being not
applications but, usually, embedded shit like Boot Code and
DSP stuff, which just happens to be acceptable as non-free
by RMS. I did not plan this nor would it behoove me to make
it up.
My other life, programming-wise, is as a hobbyist who
really only knows MS-DOS. Yes, I am an MS-DOS programmer
who also happens to know a little bit about Microsoft
Windows, as well as a little bit about Linux (I compiled
Linux several times and got it to work, oh boy).
Community
Once the Editor of Linux Magazine said that Linux
was "our OS". And after I read that I went and looked for
that Editor's name in any of the source code -- when the
name did not show up I figured that that guy was just
another "I use Linux and therefore am part of a superior
community of people because my OS is so much better than
that other OS" loser-bag.
If Open Source is nothing but the using of
Linux, then count me OUT.
PERL, CYGWIN, DJGPP,
FidoNet, TCL, Python,
GhostScript, and many un-told others will fit
in with this list of free and freely available code
&
ideas. Code and Ideas!
Is Community about a Thing? Or is it about an
Idea? Or is it so much more?
Is Community about a Thing? Or is it about an
Idea? Or is it so much more?
Is it about sharing or is it about elitism?
Tell me because I want to know!
And I think that I may have been wrong.