On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 09:44:35PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: [cut]
> > What I'm about to say is barely germane to what you two both said, but > I'll say it anyway. > > I *never* felt comfortable in the Debian community, even before the > "systemd thing". Those people were mean. They were arrogant. I'm not > talking about the DDs, I'm talking of the rank and file. Never has any > single mailing list generated so many entries in my .procmailrc. They'd > spend days and days on threads putting each other down for stuff having > nothing to do with Debian or Linux. They'd white-glove critique the > questioning of newbies who just needed to get their computers running. > They'd flame the daylights out of you, and then just before their > signature they'd say "Cheers". Saaaay whaaat? It might be due to my natural attitude, which forbids me from spitting into the same plate I have been eating until 2 minutes ago, but I can't say that I ever felt so bad in the Debian community, until maybe 2013. Debian has made a massive contribution to the Free Software community, and we shouldn't forget that without Debian we would not be here. HND KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng