Open Source: The Movie! @ LINUX

I've been thinking about why it's so hard to communicate the benefits of open source and Linux to the general public, and have come to the conclusion that it's because the general public has been conditioned by movies and TV to only understand simplistic plots with clearly defined good guys and bad guys. Trying to explain the Cathedral versus the Bazaar is just too complex for the CSI generation.

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