2014/10/28 20:37 "Chris Bannister" <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz>: > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 08:07:50PM +0100, lee wrote: > > > > The point is that I was right and you were wrong. It wasn't right > > of you to so strongly urge people to "take issues upstream". It's not > > as easy to "faciliate change" as you seem to think. > > Now I know what the following joke means: > > "There is a man on his hands and knees searching around him. A man comes > along and asks what is the problem. He says I've lost 10 dollars, so the
"I've lost my linux-based operating system distribution and community." > man bends down and starts helping him look. After a while of futile > searching the man says, hmmm, this isn't getting us anywhere; where did > you lose it. The man replies, Further on up the road, but the light's > better here." > > There's not much debian-user can do about facilitating change whether > upstream is receptive or not. I dunno. That sounds a little cynical to me. -- Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.