Did you even bother to read past the first few sentences?
I did, and was fairly unimpressed with the Linux argument. For one thing, it doesn't offer anything that isn't already being done, and it's rather like trying to douse a three-alarm fire by tossing water from a sieve. For another, it's a very passive counter, waiting until the damage has been done and the fallout in the form of newbies come to you to be corrected. Better to be aggressive and nip the problems in the bud by not allowing them to happen in the first place, and if they do then to offer some form of damage control, such as, perhaps, producing some form of PR campaign to illustrate and list the true side of furry fandom and its activities.
Here's another excellent source: Eric S. Raymond. See how he defended Linux and the OSS against its opponents. I can't hold your hand and spell it out for you.
And I'm not going to waste my time searching out source after source in order to find your point; there's no reason I should have to do your work for you. If you have a point to make, sources to quote, etc, then do so here for the sake of all who read this thread, and sum it succintly.
I did, and was fairly unimpressed with the Linux argument. For one thing, it doesn't offer anything that isn't already being done, and it's rather like trying to douse a three-alarm fire by tossing water from a sieve. For another, it's a very passive counter, waiting until the damage has been done and the fallout in the form of newbies come to you to be corrected. Better to be aggressive and nip the problems in the bud by not allowing them to happen in the first place, and if they do then to offer some form of damage control, such as, perhaps, producing some form of PR campaign to illustrate and list the true side of furry fandom and its activities.
And I'm not going to waste my time searching out source after source in order to find your point; there's no reason I should have to do your work for you. If you have a point to make, sources to quote, etc, then do so here for the sake of all who read this thread, and sum it succintly.
-Chuck Melville-