From: "Bob Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It's sad to see that a lot of the members of this list have gone so far off in their desire to gain fame and > notoriety at the expense of another.. I don't like what SCO is doing any more than anyone . . . > I have better things to do with my time than stage infantile protests just to gain attention and seek out the > fame associated with it. No matter how you try to justify this thing, that is the only reason you are doing > it. . . . > This said, I hope the list can get it's focus back on track and get back to the things that are important. I . . . > I'm sad to see how far down the list has gone. But as Despair, Inc. put it so well: > http://www.despair.com/idiocy.html
How strange that you classify this action as infantile, childish, and without purpose but to get fame. Knowing the people that you do in this group that support this, do you really think that they are only out for fame? That's a rude characterization of the quality of people that we have here. The motives of this protest have been well described and are duely well founded. Is fame part of it? To a small degree, yes. "Hey, isn't the BYU UUG the group that protested infront of SCO?" Sure that has a draw to it, but not a sole motivation. Is attention part of it? Yes; that's the purpose of a protest -to draw attention to your cause; "We don't appreciate SCO's tactics." Another motivation is to stand up and let SCO know your opinion; you may believe opinion should be left at home, others on this list wish to make their opinion known (in a non-childish way -a lawful, organized protest). I also find it offensive that you say the list has gone "down" so far and is "so far off". You talk as if for the past few months, nothing good/productive/worthy has gone on here. In fact, you refer to this list as stupid people in a large group. Seriously, how unjustly rude, and ill-perceptive can you be? Are these the claims that you truely wanted to make? Writing the way you did, I believe you didn't read all the emails pertaining to the topic. Perhaps you read only a couple which may have contained a distasteful poster slogan. Again, the reasoning behind this has been well stated and is agreed upon by many members of the list -fame is not one of them. Perhaps you should rethink the characterizations you have made of your friends in this list. Matt W. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
