The website Planete Beranger recently published an interesting post "Wrong ways to promote the FOSS", from which the title of this post was taken. The core observation of the Beranger argument is:

I'll only say that there is no such thing as a "troll". This is a word invented by the most puerile of the FOSS aficionados, unable to cope with the existence of:

• legitimate critiques from users of FOSS;

• illegitimate critiques from users of FOSS;
• legitimate critiques from non-users of FOSS, deterred by real problems;
• illegitimate critiques from users of FOSS, hasty and judgmental people;
• curses, vandalisms and the like.

I got to see the Most Puerile in action over the weekend on OSnews in the comment section of the article "Top 5 New Features of Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid Ibex" (and yes, Intrepid is spelled wrong) posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on OSNews. Eugenia was rightfully complaining that instead of adding new features of questionable value that perhaps the developers should clean up some of the long existing messes, such as the interface faux-paus in Gnome Control Center. Sure enough 'freetard' ralph lept into the discussion with his own brand of trollish behavior, accusing her of 'abusing' a news submission to complain about said interface problem.

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