Ow! Ow! OW!
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Dear Ubuntu User Reader,
In the past couple of months, I have been witness to a cascading series of rants, both online and off. It started with a prominent developer dissing the members of the Open Source community as a whole. Then, a diehard Open Source developer dissed Open Source community managers. Finally, just last week, I was at a talk where an Open Source community manager dissed journalists from the tech press.
And, all the while I was: "Ow! Ow! OW!"
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