Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[Tom Emerson <osnut@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Monday 02 June 2003 9:01 am, James Mohr wrote:
> On Monday 02 June 2003 12:15, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
[...]
> > These are admin tasks, not Joe Luser's
>
> Sorry, but if I were a newbie, or a simple user of Linux I would be
> insulted by that comment. It is extemely demeaning to refer to someone as a
> "looser" simple because they are "only" a user.  It is the apparent elitist
> attitude that many seem to have that turns a lot of people away from Linux.
> I feel that such terms and your overall attitude are very condescending.

I've never felt comfortable with the term "luser" either -- it usually strikes 
me as yet another badly-spelled "1337 5p3ak haxor vocab" term until I 
remember it supposedly stands for "<L>ocal <USER>" or some such 
not-as-derogatory term...

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