A very neat and timely essay from Mark Shuttleworth about tribalism in Free
Software world:
The very uncool thing about being a fanboy (or fangirl) of a project is that
you?re openly declaring both a tribal affiliation and a willingness to
reject the work of others just because they belong to a different tribe.
One of the key values we hold in the Ubuntu project is that we expectFor full essay: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/439
everyone associated with Ubuntu to treat people with respect. It?s part of
our code of conduct ? it?s probably the reason we *pioneered* the use of
codes of conduct in open source. I and others who founded Ubuntu have seen
how easily open source projects descend into nasty, horrible and
unproductive flamewars when you don?t exercise strong leadership away from
tribal thinking.