On 8/11/2011 4:20 PM, John Andersen wrote:
On 8/11/2011 1:04 PM, Brian K. White wrote:
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Oh, I see I hit someone's hot button...
The OP suggested Google. I answered about that. Next time I'll check with you first to see if its ok.
If you feel so obligated. Personally I wouldn't consult anyone else before stating my thoughts if I were sure of them. I assure you I will not check first with you the next time I think a post might bother you, so really, it's not required. Go ahead and speak just as if this were a public forum for conversing and comparing ideas. You're right, it's sort of a hot button, I guess. It's always been plain common sense to me not to rely too heavily on anyone else, certainly not a single external entity who you have absolutely no influence with. And as the various large companies and cloud services convince people to be essentially stupid and gullible, even in spite of pretty obvious warnings like the EC2 outtages, sure it's frustrating to watch when it's so obviously avoidable, just decline to buy-in to the myth of how great google or amazon or apple are regardless of what their marketing people say. What's wrong with saying that? -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org