Your opinion of the Linux/BSD community.

I'm doing a small project and want to know what people think about the Linux/BSD community. This doesn't just include this forum, also if you are lucky enough to have a LUG around that you can go to.

Essentially, what do you see the community as, the interaction between users, etc.

The poll is not necessary, vote if you like, its just there for some sort of statistic.

I say family... Kind of like the Hatfields or the McCoys.

lol, thanks for the first vote

I don't have an opinion as such. If I had, I tend to have opinions of individuals, not of entire communities -- and especially in this case as Linux has a worldwide community with diverse, unrelated groups of people.

This particular forum seems to be caught in a time-warp, however. Four years ago, we were debating the merits of different distributions and time doesn't seem to have changed anything.

This particular forum seems to be caught in a time-warp, however. Four years ago, we were debating the merits of different distributions and time doesn't seem to have changed anything.

If you visit other OS forums, you will notice the same trend, so I don't think we are stuck in a time warp.

id say i feel a part of the linux community.

I couldn't find the option for "dysfunctional family teetering on the brink of intervention by social services".

I think I have to agree with hari here with "I tend to have opinions of individuals, not of entire communities". I've made both friends and enemies here, so I can't see or judge the community as a whole. I can, however, say I have more issues with the majority of users, but that is still not right to judge the whole community because of some.

Now, I just loved Takla's post

Originally Posted by Blinker_Fluid I say family... Kind of like the Hatfields or the McCoys.

Or the Addams family. Just call me Uncle Fester.

Well, one member of the Linux community hasn't a very high opinion of the BSD community:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/706950

Originally Posted by brianL Well, one member of the Linux community hasn't a very high opinion of the BSD community: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/706950

Dysfunctional and competing patriarchs...we're all doomed to decades of therapy (I know this cos I watched the Sopranos).

It would be fun to put RMS, Linus Torvalds and Theo de Raadt in a room together for a few hours, observe, and then reconsider the question of being a community. Then drop Bill Gates and Steve Jobs in there as well, observe, and consider again. (I think TdR would win any physical battle due to sheer explosive aggression).

Originally Posted by reddazz If you visit other OS forums, you will notice the same trend, so I don't think we are stuck in a time warp.

Then they're also stuck in the same time warp.

Originally Posted by harishankar Then they're also stuck in the same time warp.

It's like politics, they're stuck in time warps most days.

I'm with Hari though, my opinion is always individually based.

Mostly a bunch of small minded dickheads
who need to get some sun and fresh air

I think it's rather nice - it little bit strange at first, but after getting used to the dos and donts and the quite different communication style of more (especially gender) mixed communities, I have more or less no complains.

And I'm speaking as a female here.