It seems a fair statement to say that we here in the FOSS community are well-accustomed to ridicule. That, after all, is a cross one must often bear when walking a righteous path outside the mainstream — as has been aptly demonstrated, we might add, in countless examples throughout the annals of time. But for one of us to get assaulted simply because he is a Linux advocate? That is far beyond the bounds of what we can be expected to endure. Sure enough, though, that’s just what happened not long ago to none other than the Helios Project’s own Ken Starks.