DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

[Joakim]

On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 13:25:06 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 13:18:01 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> Look, I get it, you guys are religious zealots- you tip your 
>> hand when you allude to ethical or moral reasons for using 
>> open source, a crazy idea if there ever was one- and you will 
>> come up with all kinds of silly arguments in the face of 
>> overwhelming evidence that _pure_ open source has failed.
>
> Most replies to you have been quite measured and reasonable. 
> I'm not sure what justifies you calling people zealots.
Read the rest of the sentence which you quoted, my reasons are 
stated.  When I come across so many arguments that are 
_factually_ wrong- "the Artistic license doesn't allow closing 
source," "most linux installs don't use binary blobs"- I know I'm 
dealing with religious zealots.