[Coco] RELIC: 4..... Fedora 6 DVD ISO & Linux in General: 92

[Frank Pittel]

Boisy,

Although I don't like the tone the thread has taken and agree that
it should be allowed to die. There has been a number in very interesting
on topic thread on this list.

Although never completely on topic it started with Roger looking for
help with linux so he can port his coco development software to linux. In
fact the thread nearly died a natural death until it sadly took a nasty turn.
All the useful comments have been made and I agree that the thread should
be killed off.

I host and moderate three mailing lists on various topics and to an extent I
let threads drift a bit off topic. While I think a lot can come of a "healthy"
debate or argument I draw the line when things start to get "mean" or personal.
Let's remember that we're all friends and while we may disagree nothing will
be gained by comments intended to hurt or insult. I hope that we can all
committ to the goal of not allowing this type of flame war to even start again
in the future.

Frank



On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:29:25PM -0500, Boisy Pitre wrote:
> This list is becoming more and more irrelevant to me by the day.
> 
> Yesterday I posted a CoCo related topic in the midst of this sewage,  
> and got three responses.  To date, there are 92 responses to the  
> Fedora 6 thread.
> 
> Where is the relevance?  The reverence?  The adherence to the spirit  
> of this list?  And now this thread has degraded into some pretty  
> nasty name calling, just short of all-out vulgarity.
> 
> To each their own about Linux, Windows, OS X, etc.  I know John  
> Linville personally, and consider him a friend.  I suspect because of  
> his affiliation with RedHat, he decided to dispel certain assumptions  
> and myths that were being perpetrated in messages.  I understand his  
> frustration.
> 
> That said, this thread needs to die, along with the kind of trash  
> talk below.
> 
> Boisy
> 
> 
> On May 4, 2007, at 8:40 PM, Mark McDougall wrote:
> 
> >John W. Linville bent over and this came out:
> >
> >WTF is your problem?
> >
> >>So, Linux is "work", because you can't remember where to find your  
> >>browser icons?  But you can find them alright on Windows?  That is  
> >>pathetic.
> >
> >No, you're so busy looking down your nose that you've missed the  
> >point entirely. That you equate usability of an OS to being able to  
> >locate icons on a desktop - now _that_ is pathetic! I guess that's  
> >the depth of your knowledge... you should be thankful for modern  
> >Linux disto's and their automated installation scripts....
> >
> >>Again, you set a double standard for Linux.  You don't use it  
> >>regularly,
> >>but you expect it to just magically be familiar.  You run it on  
> >>your 800
> >>MHz throw-away laptop, but run Vista (guessing) on a brand new  
> >>box.  You
> >>don't maintain your Vista box, but feel enslaved to maintenance on  
> >>your
> >>Linux box.  You apparently can't find the browser icons on the KDE
> >>desktop, but they are somehow plainly obvious to you on Vista.
> >
> >I don't "expect" anything of the sort you moron. I made no such  
> >complaints - I merely stated the fact that because _I_ don't use it  
> >regularly, it becomes more of a chore for _me_ to use it. Just like  
> >the fact that I pick up the guitar once every 6 months - I don't  
> >"magically expect" to be able to play it and I don't "complain"  
> >that it's a crappy instrument that's too hard to play. Pull your  
> >head in idiot!
> >
> >And for the record, I wouldn't touch Vista with a 10-foot clown pole.
> >
> >>Look, if you just want to use Vista then that is fine with me.  
> >>Just don't
> >>"down" Linux as an excuse.  At least complain about the things  
> >>that are
> >>real problems.
> >
> >Not _once_ in my entire posting did I "down" Linux. Perhaps English  
> >isn't your first language? What part of "I love Linux and what it  
> >stands for" don't you understand?
> >
> >Oh and I'm eternally grateful that you've deigned to allow me to  
> >"want to use Vista". A thousand thank-you's.
> >
> >As for complaining about "real problems" - I think you're one of  
> >them. Looking back through your posts I can't find any useful  
> >contribution you've made to this newsgroup - or indeed one that  
> >doesn't mention "Linux". Why are you even here? P*ss off from Coco  
> >newsgroups and tout your crap elsewhere.
> >
> >Troll...
> >
> >-- 
> >|              Mark McDougall                | "Electrical  
> >Engineers do it
> >|  <http://members.iinet.net.au/~msmcdoug>   |   with less  
> >resistance!"
> >
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