On 3/20/07, Res <res@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Gene Heskett wrote: > The facts are the facts, and your ranting about it here on this list is > not only unwelcome, it is to the wrong messenger. Take this BS to your > congress-critters. ONLY they can fix it. This list can do without the congress... sorry means nothing in my country ;)
I share that sentiment, but the ;) at the end of that statement does the statement little justice.
> rant. There are workarounds that google, legal to do so or not, will > lead you to. Use them. I dont care if its unwelcome
It is human courtesy to excuse one's self if they are unwelcome.
I have been on this list since about day 2 or so of its inception
Understand, that after you reach a certain level of unwantedness, regardless of your age with any organization, you will be no longer useful.
and there's one thing I know, theres too many rose coloured glasses wearing fan bois around here
That in itself is not a bad thing, fan boys tend to be the one who do the works also.
many who love to attack those who dare have a difference of option to theirs or Fedoras/RHs.
I believe you are misconstruing "attacking people who slander" with "attacking those who share different opinions". While I've found the majority of this thread to be too disgusting to follow, I do not believe I have noticed much of the later as of yet.
I've been dealing with that type for 15 plus years on other lists and newsgroups etc, I aint about to give in to these bully boys now just so they can sit in there little tinny, it's rarely calm waters in international oceans.
The Linux world needs a "Switzerland" as much as does the real world. While you cannot begin to understand how I detest this American rule domination, and that I detest that such a beautiful thing such as Fedora must fall victim to it, it is what it is. And while I would like to invite RedHat to transfer their headquarters to my country and free Fedora to utilize existing technologies now, I do not see RedHat accepting my offer. Furthermore, not all of Fedora's software restrictions are from a purely legal standpoint. Some just make sense - any distro can go with what is easiest for users, but Fedora is taking a different road, and doing what is best for technology - I think Windows, from an engineering standpoint, is proof that doing what is easiest for users is not what is best for technology.
This was not my statement, my statement is recommending people who want to move from windows, the clueless bunnies who want a working GUI, they are the ones that I deal with and they are the ones I no longer recommend fedora to for this reason (they just want it to work).
Then that is purely up to you. You are the one doing the recommendation,and you are the one setting your criteria. You are making that decision based on aspects of Fedora which are not negatives, just differences.
I have only one fedora box left, its an FC1, and it'll be ubuntu or slackware soon depending on how F7 turns out, I moved all my other desktops to slackware recently (since I only use slackware on servers as of RH9 EOL).
That is all fine and good. I can only hope you are contributing back in someway, you seem to be enjoying the free software. I too have my hesitations about recommending Fedora to Linux virgins. The fact of the matter is that the Linux virgin is not high on Fedora's target objectives. One may argue that it should be, but that would be a totally different argument. And as a non-American, who shares your distaste of global Americanized policies, I ask that you temper your self and not make us non-Americans seem like pompous jackasses on this, a public, indexable list. Thank you.
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