tough love

The Linux Haters blog really doesn’t hate Linux, despite the name. No one takes that much time to point out flaws in a product that they completely loathe and despise.

In the long run, we all need to become Linux Haters in order to give our favorite software the tough love it needs to become as popular as I think it deserves to be.

Corrupt brings us a ZDNet column by Jeremy Allison, who says Linux could benefit from more "tough love" in order to improve its functionality and popularity.

Corrupt brings us a ZDNet column by Jeremy Allison, who says Linux could benefit from more "tough love" in order to improve its functionality and popularity.

Excerpting: "As Elie Wiesel said, 'the opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.' LinuxHater really doesn't hate Linux, despite the name.

No one takes that much time to point out flaws in a product that they completely loathe and despise. The complaints are really cries of frustration with a system that just doesn't quite do what is desired (albeit well disguised).

The best way to parse LinuxHaters blog is to treat it as a series of bug reports. A perl script could parse out the useful information and log them as bugs.

As Elie Wiesel said, "the opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference". No one takes that much time to point out flaws in a product that they completely loathe and despise...