[GRLUG] Hostile Attitudes

Tom Warren tomewarren+grlug at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 13:40:44 EDT 2008


Another thing that might help make those of you who did engage in the
hostilities understand why it is important to just sometimes keep it to
yourself, is you may be turning Linux converts away. Wouldn't also be better
to help him out and then point out how Linux may have helped him better
identify the problems he was having? Think diplomatically welcome the
person, help them along the way and convince them that Linux is better than
say windows or whatever OS they may be having a problem with.

I may be new on your list but I have been a member of Linux user groups for
well over 12 years. And I have seen this from time to time and its better to
help the person out and then see them slowly move towards linux solutions.

Tom

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Benjamin Flanders <flanderb at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The recent request for some geek help seems to have hit a bad nerve
> with some of you.  This isn't the first nerve that has come under
> direct stimulation in the recent past.  I am becoming increasingly
> disturbed at some of the unhelpful and negative comments we are
> getting on the list.  Would I be over stepping my bounds if I ask that
> if you don't have anything to nice to say, don't say anything at all?
>
> --
> Share and Enjoy
> Ben
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Tom Warren
meijer ITS Enterprise Storage
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
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