A short education for users of OSS

The following article came about from a flame post (angry comment, designed to upset people) to a recent review I made of Ares Desktop at GUILinux. The responder, or commenter seemed to be very angry for a number of reasons, some valid, some not. The comments did however strike at the heart of some of the issues many OSS projects face with the users of those projects. I am hoping that between the original posters comments and my comments to the poster, we can shed some light on both sides of the issues, and perhaps bring some understanding along the way.

The original posters comments will be proceed with the word “Flame”, my comments will be preceded with “GUILinux”. I have done some spelling and grammar clean-up of the original post, other than that the content remains essentially the same. You can see the original post without my changes here in the comments area.

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