On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 11:43:00 AM -0700, Craig White (craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > This wasn't your issue - wasn't your business and you have little > justification for involving yourself in the issue. In the post to which you replied I explained exactly _why_ it was my business (and everybody else who advocates FLOSS), and what kind of troubles people like these create without ever realizing it, even to those who tried to ignore them personally. In addition to the other examples I already mentioned: I am trying to introduce Linux as a desktop where I work (big corporation, no garage shop), to save money. I am saying come on, let's try this and that app, so we can cut virus downtime and service costs (the "public forums are fast and helpful" argument). Evolution and its Exchange plugin would be great in our corporate environment, but I *must* step around it very carefully because if *one* tester or boss happens into a situation like this, I would be told exactly (see your words above) "You're an engineer, not a sysadmin. This wasn't your business, and you have little justification for involving yourself in the issue. Stop playing and go back to slooowly accessing Linux remotely from Windows". See now? I am *already* involved with the problems created by that kind of behavior. I *do* have a life. Personally, I have far better things to do that listen to swearing-addicted toddlers. I couldn't ask better than to leave them rave in a corner until fall asleep. But when I try to explain things to other people, and they quit cold turkey with "if this is the community you want me to enter, so long" it *is* my business all right. Er, no, not mine, sorry. Ours. Ciao, Marco F. -- Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it Red Hat & Fedora for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/ Cyberspace means the end of our species ... because it means the end of innovation. This idea that the whole world is wired together is mass death.... And believe me, it'll be fast. -- Michael Crichton, "The Lost World"
