Firefox Zealotry August 3, 2006
When you really care about an idea, it’s easy to come off as a nutcase. It is vital to our cause that we not alienate civilians. This is not so important to them as it should be, but we have to respect that.
Christian posted:
“The religious language may be in jest, but the fact that Firefox “evangelism” has become like unto a religion ought to bother the Mozilla crew, and I’m disappointed to see Asa perpetuate the problem. Don’t love software - it can’t love you back. Recommend Firefox as a good alternative (on Win32, at least), but please don’t start using quasi-religious language, even if it is in jest; it does nothing to help the MoFo’s image.”
I posted:
You’re 1000% right. If we become dismissable as “fanatics”, we will be.
While Firefox and the whole opensource movement inspire PASSION, let’s be careful to divert that passion ALWAYS into logical arguments… more
