>> My advice would be that if you're consistently getting negative feedback about personality traits from others, take it seriously.
This is bland and simple advice at best, that only serves the 'groups' best interest, not the individual.
Half the people you meet are below average intelligence, I'd strongly advise not listening to at least half of what people have to say. The other half could also be giving self-serving advice that isn't in your best interest.
Is there any reason to believe IBM hasn’t been a good open source citizen?
Arguably a lot of OS progress that we are seeing today, especially in the enterprise, is a direct result of IBM’s decades old investments in tools like Eclipse, which was probably the first enterprise grade open source development software, but more importantly, by promoting OS in the enterprise in the late 90s and early 2000s at a time when MS FUD about Linux was at an all time high.
This is bland and simple advice at best, that only serves the 'groups' best interest, not the individual.
Half the people you meet are below average intelligence, I'd strongly advise not listening to at least half of what people have to say. The other half could also be giving self-serving advice that isn't in your best interest.
My advice is to ignore everyone.