First, my opinion is worth as little as yours is. :-) But since you asked, even if I agree with you on controversial off-topic issues, they still don't really belong here.
Let's say evildoer company X invents (or buys) a new magic codec, and using their near-monopoly gets it widely accepted. But in many countries, there's no _legal_ way to use it without some of your money going back to company X. Your choices: * break the law * move somewhere where the law is different * spend the money even if it offends you * don't use company X's magic codec Any of the above may have unpleasant consequences. You get to choose for yourself which you dislike least. In any event, please don't expect anyone else to help you break the law in your country, or theirs either. You don't want to violate your standards to obtain a solution, please don't ask anyone else to violate theirs. (golden rule) See how that worked? I didn't even have to get into politics or religion or environmentalism or the actual name of company X or what it was they were doing that I didn't like. As for the rest...many people are rude on line. Probably doesn't do any good, but that's life. If you want the content, you deal with the garbage that comes with it. For me, in a technical forum I want technical Q&A & info, and would prefer to discuss unrelated issues elsewhere. Doesn't mean one lives a bunch of separate lives, just means one doesn't need to discuss it all in inappropriate places. As long as off-topic issues are excluded and people aren't frequently rude, it's not for me to say someone isn't welcome, regardless of how I might feel about whatever else I might know about their position on off-topic issues. (FWIW, most companies sooner or later support, directly or indirectly, both some group or cause I strongly disagree with, and some group or cause I strongly _agree_ with. Avoiding the first group is something I'd personally reserve for only the worst of the worst, because otherwise the number I'd have to avoid would get seriously impractical. You're entitled to do otherwise of course, but the details of the causes you or I agree or disagree with remain off-topic. I for one don't want to see mentioned here even those I strongly agree with.) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
