It appears that you've struck a nerve amoungst these folks. about the only
thing you can do for these poor fellas is to hand them a hanky box and
show a little sympathy. Not everyone us cut out to run the BEST OS in the
known universe. Some are STUCK running the world's worst!
Mark
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, John Arkoulis wrote:
> A couple of days ago I was surfing on the net and went on a Star Trek site. I
> liked what they had and out of good faith I sent them the message << lets port
> it to Linux>>
> I thought that the Linux community had an attitude but I was wrong.
> This is the answer that I received.
> Now what would you answer to them??/
> I really do not like people that are that sarcastic especially to someone that
> they do not know.
> I would appreciate any ideas!!!
>
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, also sprach: > -----
> Original Message ----- > From: Richard Sliwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: John
> Arkoulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 1:46 PM >
> Subject: Re: Linux >
> >
> > > At 13:31 26/06/00 -0700, you wrote:
> > > >Come on guys. Lets port these great stuff over to Linux.
> > >
> > > To which particular flavour of Linux desktop environment do you want us to
> > > port?
> > >
> > > And just what "stuff" is it you want us to port? The only material on our
> > > site which isn't directly relevant to Linux are the startup screens and
> > > desktop themes which are irrelevant anyway.
> > >
> > > Anyway, why should *we* port it? We're part of the Windows online
> > community
> > > (despite the fact that our server is actually running on Linux - Windoze
> > > just isn't up to it!), why can't the online Linux community do something
> > > about it? After all, linux is meant to be the single largest collaborative
> > > project going, isn't it?
> > >
> > > And isn't Linux all about tinkering away oneself - why would any Linux
> > user
> > > want to rely on all our pre-compiled suff?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Richard Sliwa
> > > Star Trek in Sound and Vision http://www.STinSV.com
> > > Boldly Going Where No Web Site Has Ever Gone Before
> > >
>
