[Gllug] the guardian on the attack (again)

[Craig Millar]

What is it with the so called 'experts' at the Guardian? You'd think that
the open source philosophy would ducktail nicely with their socialist, red
sock wearing values. Alas, time and time again they seek to piss us off with
this sort of nonsense:

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,16376,1660763,00.html

I'm not arguing for or against OOo, I don't use it unless I really have to,
but to claim that the whole 'myth' of open source is that a 'significant
proportion of users can fix bugs' is plain and simple horseshit. Who honestly
believes that every time a user finds a bug in their app they fire up $EDITOR
and start patching the source? The point is that people _can_ do so if they
wish and indeed some do. Certainly not a 'significant proportion'. Bah.

The "second crucial false assumption: that even if not all users can fix a bug,
they can help find them. They can't. Most users just think: 'The computer
isn't doing what I want.'" is slightly less risable, but seeks to ignore the
fact that feedback is important to any software, foss or not.

Why are these morons so consistently clueless? And I'm not just talking
technology either!
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