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I note that while there is merit to some of his arguments, he
contradicts himself by saying the developers are making arbitrary
decisions without user input, then accuses them of pandering to
ex-Windows users.. So are they ignoring users, or pandering to
them?<br>
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The author's comments remind me of the days of when AOL users
started flooding the internet. There were many frustrated people,
that what they perceived as their domain was being taken over by
"the great un-washed".<br>
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Honestly, there's a lot of corollaries across society for this, but
probably too much to go into here. Might make an interesting essay,
though.<br>
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- Chris<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/29/2014 09:35 AM, Zack Gold
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<div dir="ltr">I read a blog post the other day and was wondering
what you guys think of it yourselves: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://slated.org/the_poetterisation_of_gnu_linux">http://slated.org/the_poetterisation_of_gnu_linux</a>
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<div>He mainly rants and doesn't support his evidence on a
'disturbing trend' in GNU/Linux.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Zack Gold
<div>Former NBLUG Scribe</div>
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