2003:
[[A man approaches a bearded fellow.]]
Man: Did you get my essay?
Bearded Fellow: Yeah, it was good! But it was a .doc; You should really use a more open--
Man: Give it a 
rest
 already. Maybe we just want to live our lives and use software that 
works
, not get wrapped up in your stupid nerd turf wars.

Bearded Fellow: I just want people to care about the infrastructures we're building and who--
Man: No, you just want to feel smugly superior. You have no sense of perspective and are probably autistic.

2010:
Man: Oh my God! We handed control of our social world to Facebook and they're 
DOING EVIL STUFF!

Bearded Fellow: Do you see this?

[[Inset, the bearded fellow rubs his index and middle fingers against his thumb.]]
Bearded Fellow: 
It's the world's tiniest open-source violin.


{{Title text: The heartfelt tune it plays is CC licensed, and you can get it from my seed on JoinDiaspora.net whenever that project gets going.}}