Sometimes people just don’t get it

Tim Bray lets loose quite a list of gripes about some recent remarks by Richard Epstein. Apparently some things about Open Source that really got Bray peeved. Although I am not going to try to understand the motivations for either party in involved, it does sound like Bray took it a bit too personally.

Look, I am not thrilled when someone decides to bad mouth Open Source or speculate in the world of make believe either, but I do try to keep my cool during such an event when at all possible.

I was just getting ready to knock off when Jonathan posted a piece with all sorts of thoughtful remarks about the Java constituencies (note plural), and a passing reference to “binary extremes” in reference to these remarks by Richard Epstein, in the Financial Times no less. James Governor has already given Epstein a few well-deserved whacks, and I’ve been trying to think of something more creative to say than “This clueless windbag doesn’t know what he’s writing about.” Among other things, he offers blue-sky speculation (aka FUD) about what might go wrong with the GPL but hasn’t yet.