On the flip side of what you're saying, when you have centralization then you also have to worry about user management and permissions much more.
But with git or bzr you can have a canonical repository up that only a few people have commit access directly into, but as a new developer that won't stop you from hacking on it. You can instantly clone the repo and start working on your own branch, commit all your changes to your own branch, and once it's ready the maintainers can pull you branch and merge into the upstream repo.
In the past there may have been issues like "what if user Foo doesn't have a host to store his or her branches?" But these days we have GitHub and Gitorious, so that isn't really an issue.
if you are a Muslim and the Muslims are known for acts of suicide terrorism...
People keep talking about how Muslims are known for acts of terrorism. Why is it that the first thing that comes to mind when you see some Muslims is, "oh shit they might blow something up"? Why not Latinos/South Americans? Ever heard of Orlando Bosch or Luis Posada Carilles? They've done some crazy shit. What about Israelis? Israel violates the Geneva Conventions constantly and frequently engages in large-scale terrorism (such as what they're doing right now).
On one hand we are outraged by these events but on the other hand we allow our government zero tolerance for terrorist events or accidents to happen. If you want to be safe, you have have to sacrifice liberty.
I don't remember ever hearing anyone ask our government to clamp down on our civil liberties, except maybe some commentators on CNN and Fox News. When people blame the US government for terrorism, it's never in the context of "hey you gave us too much liberty you assholes!" Most of the complaints I read and agree with are things like, "Hey, stop bombing the fuck out of countries and instilling hatred for us among their people you assholes!"
Explaining that Mono and MoonLight continues to be a non-OSS patent-infringing platform that's permitted to stay alive only while Microsoft continue their patent deal with Novell is worthy criticism and these 'Boycott Novell' people are contributing t to that public understanding.
Can you please explain both why it's non-OSS, and how it's patent-infringing? Mono is, I believe, released under MIT license. This is an official OSI-certified Open Source license, so I think you need to back up that statement that it's non-OSS.
Mono is not known to be infringing on any patents either, so I'm not sure what your claim is in that case either. The core of the
Mono does not knowingly accept code that is patented and does not fall under the ECMA/ISO standard because then they would be setting themselves up for possible litigation.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.