On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 23:24 -0400, Rickey Moore wrote: > <chuckles> In a study of basic criminality, the lack of Empathy is a > major precursor to abusive behavior, of any form. Put that one in your > pipe and smoke it. Aggression is a one sided relationship where my goals > are of 100% importance and my relationship value of you is 0%. > Just to set the record straight; > Withdrawn is 0% personal goals, 0% relationship > Passive is 0% personal goals, 100% relationship > Assertive is 100% personal goals, 100% relationship > Compromise is 50% personal goals, 50% relationship > ... so it's considered healthy to try to be properly assertive, but > everyone has a unique perspective, so you compromise settling for less, > yet getting World Peace. It's not hard once you become Borg with your > computer to objectify yourself and everyone around you... it shows up > even in user interfaces, as you both have noticed. Not friendly; > Do-it-my-way-I-am-coder-you-are-Borg. Been there, done that, have the > T-Shirt. It cost me. Not good. Not going back there again. > > > >Linus is probably right, I should switch to KDE. > > I kind of tend to trust Linus Torvalds too. ;) And he's definitely > > right. > > Linus is a classic study in proper assertiveness. He's a uber-geek > (personal goals) -and- he values people (values relationships). > > > If there was ever a man that believed in freedom of choice, it's LBT. > > Both in proprietary and free software arenas. Free software without > > freedom of choice is still no freedom. You should never let "free > > software" ideology take away your freedom of choice. Linus understands > > that > > Of course, people matter more to him than code. It shows and his is not > a bad example to follow. Bob Young and Mathew Szulik are both people > persons. I knew Bob from the Red Hat days and, when I got into a scrape, > he wrote me personally. When Mathew came onboard, he would "mother hen" > the whole team, checking up to see if you had what you needed and how > are you and how is your Mum? (sorry, stole that one from the Gecko!) but > you get the picture. Now Bob runs lulu.com to enable and encourage > people to publish books, art and music on the web. I'm sure Mathew had a > hand in this Fedora thing. So, I stick with it and, even when things > screw up, I beleive their (RH) heart is in the right place. ***snip**** Ric, that was an excellent read. Thanks for posting it. :) LX -- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of us!" -- Turkish proverb Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
