It's an overly naive view of the vended-*nix world, and especially for AIX / Irix / HPUX. All three of those have a habit of being really annoying to work with from the opensource view. I've worked on AIX machines that were less than 5 years old that came pre-installed with Perl4. (Perl5 came out over 10 years ago.) Vendor-builds tend to be at least one major revision old and compiled with flags that make you wonder what crack they were smoking. Most monks tend to recompile their own versions of anything they're going to depend on in production, just so they know what's going on.
Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing.
Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid.
Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence.
Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.
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