[majorchord]

> Why do so many vocal people in the Open Source world have a much more extreme worldview than even an OSI cofounder?

In my experience talking with many such people over decades... it's usually some type of personality disorder. I quit FOSS because of how prevalent this egotistical dogmatism persona is.

Besides the users that never stop complaining and love to make absurd demands of unpaid volunteers, a very depressingly-large number of other developers you end up working with are so self-absorbed and uninterested in actually getting along with other people that their only means of discussion is always about how everyone else is wrong and there can be no other valid opinions.