Why do you dislike open source? I think its GNU and FSF you should criticize...not open source.
It's so ironic too...posting hate for open source on the back of Windows' BSD-derived network stack...And oh God, how unoriginal BSD's network stack is.
Why can't you see the good in anything besides Microsoft?
Hahahaha. I don't dislike open source actually.... I regularly open-source (BSD or public domain) most of the software that I write on my own. GNU and FSF are in fact the ones I really like to pick on. But when I think of the "open-source" community, those are the ones that I think of. Copyleft licenses are almost universally so restrictive that I worry about incorporating anything I've learned looking at code into my projects (personal or business) for fear that what happened to Linksys will happen to me one day.
BUT - I also see the value that closed-source development provides to the software community that it seems most open-source advocates cannot. I think the quote at the end of the blog post says it succinctly:
Some of the youngest, brightest minds have been trapped in a 1970s intellectual framework because they are hypnotized into accepting old software designs as if they were facts of nature.
No, I don't dislike open-source. In fact, I've been given permission from my boss to open-source some ASP.NET validation controls I wrote for use on Facebook (since the intrinsic ones don't work), and I'm working on polishing them up for release. Yes - I'm pushing my business to do it. The community software project that I'm working on is going to be open-source (if I ever get something worthwhile done with it). I just open-sourced my
.NET PropertyGrid extensions and
regularly contribute code and insight to the development community. I don't think that knowledge necessarily belongs trapped in the brains of a few, but I don't look down on people who retain their knowledge privately for reasons of personal gain. And I've got issue with people who think that all knowledge should belong to everyone, which seems to comprise the majority of the open-source community.
As to the "it also criticizes open-source" comment - I was referring to the FSF/GNU community.