Uncyclopedia:Featured articles/May 15

Open source (OS) is a school of discipline that focuses on developing programs without taking into consideration the perspective of an "average" user or clinging to the unnecessary burdens of proper implementation procedures. Open source programming, in a figurative sense, is a new and interesting way of reinventing the wheel, but all the while making sure that the new "wheel" will not be in any way compatible with existing roadworks or, at the very least, spin. In other words, OS is the channel through which aspiring programmers convey their visions about life in general.

It means free – "free" as in freedom – to perform every single task in the most awkward way imaginable, the freedom to jump out the window after spending thirty hours trying to get an OS application to work, and, indeed, the freedom to ultimately move back to the Stone Age for good. What is more, it means that all human beings should cease earning incomes and having families and start living in their moms' basements, wearing ugly red hats and talking about Python and sci-fi's all the time for the rest of their lives. (Full article...)