come on guys, chill out...
This is the sort of fragmentation that will help remove our rights whereever we live.. The issue was raised, everyone on the list know knows whats going on and we are on an expert list and must therefore at least know how to use google :-) so if anyone wishes to discuss it further, there is plenty of info and places for it. yes it sux, yes it needs to be addressed, those that will, will.. but name calling and stuff will not further our cause, and in-fighting is counter productive as well.. we all are here because we share common traites, we either love linux, or we use it for work etc... stick to the good stuff on this list, the last thing we need to become is like the redhat lists... (or any of the elitist lists) there are far less RTFM's or STFW's on this list then nearly any other I have been on, and even though this list strays from the path more, its still better as a result. normally this list is a perfect example of the open source community sharing and helping each other.. but we seem to get nasty very easily, and that works against the open source movement. If you all really want to do something, put up web sites, about paladium's potential downsides, and make them all link to each other, submit to search engines etc... if 1000 people did this, the result would be that most searches for paladium etc would get one of these pages first... Then send links to all the relevant congressmen etc in all countries wether its relevant or not, just to get it into their heads in a negative light, so when it does become an issue in your country,, they will already be against it... (we can hope anyway..) Anyway, my real message here is to just chill out.. relax and get back to linux issues, after all, making linux better and more useful and as a result more popular is the best tool we have... if more people use it, it will be much harder for pollies anywhere to shut down. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:expert-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Lyvim Xaphir Sent: Saturday, 26 October 2002 10:54 AM To: ExpertMandrake-List Subject: Re: [expert] Enemies Purchased by Gates On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 22:20, David Guntner wrote: > J. Craig Woods grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Todd, > > > > I disagree with your assessment. [etc] > > IMO, you're out of line, Craig. When the administrator of a mailing list > says that a discussion thread is off topic for the list and asks that the > discussion be moved elsewhere, you do it. You don't argue with him or her > about it. First of all, I don't see Dr John as being in an argument. He stated his opinion of Todd's executive order, as is his right. Second, if you are so all fired blown up about this thread and "moving the discussion elsewhere," then it seems that you would have posted this message to Dr John privately. You did not do that; therefore you yourself are inconsistent with your own statements, as you are now an unnecessary participant in said discussion. > I also happen to agree with Todd (though even if I disagreed with him, I > would still be making the above statement). This is *not* a political > forum. Perhaps not. But it IS A LINUX FORUM. And without Linux, there will be no linux forums.
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