When an enterprise adopts open source software, that’s generally cause for celebration in the eyes of most Linux fans, signifying as it does another victory for all that is FOSS. Not everyone sees it that way, however, as a recent debate on the Linux blogs made patently clear. “The eclipse community should create peer pressure to prevent the freeloaders and parasites from getting away without punishment,” suggested Michael Scharf in April. “Leeches” was the term applied to such users in an article that ran just last week.
