Why I hate Open Source ?
May 30, 2008
NOTE : The content below may be offensive for some people and the language used is not very appropriate. Parental Guidance is highly recommended . This is what I realized after your response and is not a part of the original content !! All the following text is based on true experience and I am not paid by Microsoft to hate Open source , i simply dont have the time and stemina to keep going on and on forever 
Hello everyone, often while going through details on this topic there are 2 groups of people who are highly opinionated and rigid about their ideas for OPEN Source Vs Licensed Software or for the sake of simplicity call it Microsoft 
………………… Yah yah , i know its free [OPEN SOURCE] and the microsoft supporter wud say “You get what you pay for” hehe yah rite …………..
Let me share a very hillarious experience with another upcoming technology called Ruby on Rails having all the nice features and a powerful framework doing all the stuff for you. I read about it , loved it for rich functionality that these guys put together for quick and rapid application development. I went ahead and checked out a”Tutorial on Ruby On Rails” that was on OnLamp.com and also saw a couple videos on you tube where they were teaching on how to configure the webrick server and get going with the MYSQL database and put in some quick data driven web applications.
I felt absolutely convinced that this is going to be the future of webdevelopment . Like configure a file (called database.yaml or something) and it wud design the UI for you with a feature called dynamic scaffolding ( what the efff !! Are you fuckin jokin ?? ). Wasnt to be for me =] so infact they were fucking joking . I downloaded the Installer i think it was version 2.6.1 or something and installed it , installed MySQL database and tried to write my Hello world application with the technology !!
Believe me it was a pain , i could not say hello at all. It had some routing issues with http/get then it could not find something and i read the forums and all that to figure it all out.After an hour’s effort or so i was able to write a “Hello World with Ruby on Rails” .
The feature i absolutely loved when i read the tutorial was dynamic scaffolding , simply write the datatypes and based on that Ruby knows ” whatch u r upto ” ? or does it ??. I instantly wanted to use it , so i declared a couple of text fields in the database , did all the stuff necessary to see my two labels and textboxes apper on the hello world page. Just refreshed and got an error !! again checked everything “Not working” :S … I was getting angry “What the eff !! ” this that and the other … gimme a break , you 10 minutes dynamic website developers !!
I was still determined to give this a shot because it was worth it , just configure the database and no code , your front end is ready with all the CRUD features , WOW , whooooooaaa !! Yeah babes 
Yehhhhh !! i m Loving it (McDonalds Style) !! So i checked out the documentation of the specific version and believed that its something i m missing …. not to long after that the official website proudly said “All Ruby On Rails existing Tutorials are no more ………….. Haha (devil face)” .. We finished em all (devilish smile) … Oh yah !! we dont support any basic stuff which is the chapter 1 in all tutorials that ever existed in the History of the technology !!! “Up urs Tutorials (i mean the middle finger)”!!
Yah ?? What the eff !! hahaha u r so proud of it ? it is retarded dudes !! Cant you do it in the background !! yeah all those optimizations !! Did you realize how difficult it is to follow it for the new developers who want to use it !! ahhh U r bad and evil people !!
So this was just my experience and i hated it , hated myself for wasting 6 hours on my life on this loosing technology , i swear if it was microsoft , it would have been a big deal where every wanna B would be commenting on that on but after this “effyyy experience ” I say “Go ASP.Net” and “Go Microsoft” and I “absolutely hate open source” …..
Have a kool experience with Open Source ? Or a worse experience with Microsoft ?? I would love to hear it !!
NOTE : Some people who have similar reasons to hate OS :
http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2002.5.29.234020.354.html
http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=7827
http://www.bleepsoft.com/tyler/?itemid=47
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/24/princeton_opensource_hater_a_loose/
http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/05/open-source-branding.html
http://www.lockergnome.com/linux/2006/05/03/linux-hatertraitor-turns-to-windows/
http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10005747o-2000460739b,00.htm
Perhaps i m not the only one :O [Check these ones out ]
May 30, 2008 at 5:26 pm
This semster i had a cource Visual Programming there i learned Visual basic and i start loving it because of eaxy coding
then i read some tutorial of ASP.net and also found it pretty much same
the thing is that asp is easier but as i heard that there are many functionalities which are missing in asp but easily found in PHP
i am in favour that every coder should try both as per required
May 30, 2008 at 5:47 pm
So you are pissed off with a concept (that is, open source in general, not a specific product)? And for what? Because you didn’t understand how to do something on a framework that you didn’t know anything about? Right.
You’re logic is, if possible, worse than your grammar, spelling and general communication skills. Your idea of punctuation seems to be that the most important thing is that it’s in there somewhere.
And have I had a “kool” [sic] experience with anything? No, in fact I don’t believe that is even an English word. Of course looking back at the rest of your post, I’m not sure any of it is actually in English.
Worse experiences with Microsoft products? Plenty. Every install of Windows I’ve ever done, for one thing. Those generally take around six hours (when one includes drivers, updates etc.).
Please never express any opinion on the internet (or anywhere else for that matter) before you learn to justify your claims. In fact, first learn how to write.
May 30, 2008 at 5:59 pm
“So you are pissed off with a concept (that is, open source in general, not a specific product)? And for what? Because you didn’t understand how to do something on a framework that you didn’t know anything about? Right.
You’re logic is, if possible, worse than your grammar, spelling and general communication skills. Your idea of punctuation seems to be that the most important thing is that it’s in there somewhere.
And have I had a “kool” [sic] experience with anything? No, in fact I don’t believe that is even an English word. Of course looking back at the rest of your post, I’m not sure any of it is actually in English.
Worse experiences with Microsoft products? Plenty. Every install of Windows I’ve ever done, for one thing. Those generally take around six hours (when one includes drivers, updates etc.).
Please never express any opinion on the internet (or anywhere else for that matter) before you learn to justify your claims. In fact, first learn how to write.”
No Sir I am really not , i am just complaining that it is way too complicated with some technologies. I know you love open source especially linux ,yes it doesnt take any time to install it and its free too !! It rox !! For me “Vista Rox” Its about personal opinion right !! and about your personal verbal abilities as well !! Who are you to tell me I should go and learn how to write ? Are you a qualified English Language teacher or what ?? This is my blog OK where i can express what i feel about myself or anyone else or any technology !!
so sorry if that sounded offensive, but i really hate it (not the concept) but the obsession that people have for it !!
Thanks for reading the post though !! Most people that love open source are like you
May 31, 2008 at 12:26 am
This incoherent mess reads worse then an essay a 6th grader would write; I couldn’t even get through this.. despite you trying to bash all things non-MS I can’t believe they would pay you to write this, its just garbage..
and if you weren’t paid and you can’t figure out how to setup a simple rails app after 6 hours you need to find a new career.
May 31, 2008 at 12:34 am
no its totally my opinion !! no body paid me to write this !!
I m from pakistan and English is not my first language
I m not bashing everything correct me i i am wrong !! Y would any1 break existing tutorials ? by introducing a new way which is more complicated than the first one ?
Secondly i tried to find a simple and decent IDE i could not find one !!
The best any1 did was Ruby on Steel which integrates RoR in Visual studio IDE !!
Anyways hats off to the guys still for their time and devotion !!
August 23, 2008 at 1:14 am
without going too deep in what you wrote, you probably chose a wrong tutorial or it just wasnt your day.
For IDEs I would recommend you to have a look at http://www.aptana.com/rails
June 3, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Cool!