[GRLUG] entertaining bit of satire re M$ (I think it's satire)

Greg Folkert greg at gregfolkert.net
Tue Feb 11 10:18:21 EST 2014


On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 09:12 -0500, Collin Kidder wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Greg Folkert <greg at gregfolkert.net>
> wrote:
>         Eric, I am sending this to the list, rather than privately.
>         (But also
>         BCC to you)
>         
>         Unless you are sending personal info or are involved in a
>         conversation
>         out side the list topic brought up (even if it is one like
>         this)... it
>         is not good netiquette.
>         
> 
> 
> Personally I'm more offended by your behavior than anything Eric did.
> People like you are the sort of people that turn others away from
> Linux and computing in general. We (techie people) get a bad
> reputation for acting like jerks. I'd rather see all of us be a bit
> tolerant of things rather than write pointless replies to posts...
> like I'm doing right now... Let's get along and try to let the
> occasional off-topic post slide under the radar instead of being the
> topic police.

I'm sick and tired of reading Windows/Microsoft satire in a Linux Forum.
It isn't satire anymore. It is old, same old stories rehashed for newer
stuff and is just getting tiring to read it time and time again when
some one "discovers it" again. It is like those chain e-mails that
resurface every 18 months, old. Windows is established that it is a POS
being forced down throats of unsuspecting users that don't know it is
Dog Scat and love it without understanding there are other better
options. Furthermore, if you choose to use Windows and complain about
it, go complain in a Windows forum and see how far it gets you. It is
the same old same old pundits everywhere (yes, I'm a Linux pundit). I
work in Linux all day, everyday, don't care to deal with or read about
Windows, except as to interoperability, period. I've already done 4.5M
work/reach arounds for Windows... I don't care to read anymore about it.

That is my story, I'm sticking to it, as I have for many years.

GET OFF MY LAWN! (Being a Grumpy old codger and YES my lawn)
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