On Thursday 22 January 2004 2:02 am, Geoffrey wrote:
You guys have got to be the biggest a**holes I've ever seen on any list. Continuing to waste list bandwidth with totally OT crap. Why don't you guys take your windows discussion to some windows list?
-- Until later, Geoffrey esoteric@3times25.net
Building secure systems inspite of Microsoft
Sorry Geoffrey, if you look at Tom Emerson's post on this thread, after your text above, there is quite a nugget of interest to me. OK the topic is peripheral, but Tom's post shows that understanding the topic does help with understanding something about Linux which will surely crop up. I think the best thing this list can do for Linux [and hence for what we want in computing] is to be able to support windows refugees, on their terms. Which means 1] understanding their world and 2] not making it off topic, so that people get frightened of offending other people like you. If you think it is OT, that's your opinion and you are entitled to it. But, there are divergent opinions, so yours should not necessarily prevail. And these guys do not deserve the 2 star a**holes description. Vince Littler