From: gregarican <greg.kujawa@...>
Date: 2005-07-19T01:25:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby momentum?

Kirk Haines wrote:

> It's a strategy, and current evidence suggests that it has been a successful strategy.

True. This might be stretching some but I think some FOSS proponents
deep-down like their interests and techology more obscure. The appeal
is there because it's a tightly guarded secret. I know there are some
newbies to the computing world who steer away from Microsoft just
because they are the big bully and these newbies would rather root for
David as the underdog than side with a Goliath. Even while they are
vainly trying to recompile a kernel to get their sound card to work.
Just kidding :-)

I can concur on many levels with these folks, however. There's a
certain underdog mentality that views popularity as selling out. Maybe
some of these folks don't like seeing Rails being on the tip of
everyone's tongue because a percentage of its praise is being sung by
folks just aboard a bandwagon. And these bandwaggoners would jump ship
when another newly touted solution starts getting talked about...