Talk:Jargon File

I do not like the idea of having a "jargon". A jargon is something you use to show others they do not belong to you. Let alone that this is against the open nature of Linux, less than 0.5% of the users use Linux. If we say "you do not belong to us, we are different", we are either proud of or ashamed of being different. If we are ashamed of being different, there is no use to continue using Linux. If we are proud of it, we are derogative of other users when we have a jargon. And being derogative against more than 99% of all computer users is plain stupid. --ThorstenStaerk 14:20, July 18, 2008 (UTC)

Actually reading the jargon file with all its couch-potato-humor and derogative statements about people who want to earn money by writing good software makes the impression that the Linux culture is not able to get out of the server closet and the niche of the hobbyist market and - as an act of embitterment - escapes into its own millieu (with a jargon to distinct it). Instead of pragmatic arguments ("this behavior serves the user"), holy wars get started about unreflected and often counter-productive paradigms (like "it adheres to the Unix philosophy") that are exactly right to scare away users and serious potential contributors. --ThorstenStaerk 06:26, March 5, 2009 (UTC)