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Still not an excuse for being a dick to the person reporting it.

This is one of my pet peeves with the FOSS community: they want to be taken seriously as an alternative to proprietary software, but they are completely unwilling to act like professionals in any way, and then the complain that people are sticking with proprietary alternatives.



>they want to be taken seriously as an alternative to proprietary software

They are.

>but they are completely unwilling to act like professionals in any way, and then the complain that people are sticking with proprietary alternatives.

Yet, chances are you are using an open source web browser to access an open source web server through a lot of piping that is modern networking, with open source parts inside and out.


> Yet, chances are you are using an open source web browser

You mean this browser run by and for a gigantic multinational advertising corporation who's de-facto monopoly on the browser market is a subject of frequent griping?




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