Franki wrote:
Well, to the extent that it's relevant to the Open Source community, it's relevant to Linux, and to the extent that it's relevant to people's motivations for posting to lists, it's relevant to any list. But essentially you are right - I'm not saying squelch this topic, but let's give it an "OT" prefix, or continue it on a philosophy forum.pardon me, but what has this to do about linux??
Not in the 'nix world, where you gain a sense of superiority by using smaller and smaller words: bin; awk; ln -s; ls -l etc. ;-)Its sad, the same reason we help people is often the same reason that we end up in intellectual pissing matches like this...a feeling of superiority.... so we end up in discussions using bigger and bigger words.. and achiving nothing...
Amen to that. Whether we regard it as self-interest, social obligation, or a mystically-inspired commandment from the Great Penguin in the Sky, we are agredd that it's a worthy/satisfying/cool thing to do.Its pointless and useless... why bother??? lets all be friends and concentrate on spreading the linux word shall we?
Sir Robin
(who, incidentally, took on that title as a way of taking the piss out of people who had questioned his motivation for defending a "damsel in distress" on this list)
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