[GRLUG] "real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ; ) "

[Ben DeMott]

>
> responding, he has opened himself up to a further dialogue, which I
> think we can all agree is a good thing.
>

Yes dialogue is fantastic, if there is anything I can appreciate about this
community at the end of a stressful day in the bowels of the corporation I
work for it's dialogue :)

I mean why not let me take the tarball and run it on my
> netbook so I can have an offline copy?
>

Yeah Ben - I guess I wasn't really even weighing this in with the
"usefulness" of it... I wasn't attempting to address the issue.  I agree it
would make more sense and make the whole concept more flexible in general -
I'm curious if 'Mike' has any comments?

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Ben DeMott <ben.demott at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  Linus admitted that when his invention was ridiculed by the creator of
> Minx
> > it was the hardest, and most difficult time to continue in development.
> In
> > fact he stopped posting in the Minx boards for some times.
> >
> > Not everyone is thick skinned, and as bone-headed as some of us (myself
> > included) - All I can ask is we approach ideas with temperance.
>
> I'm not saying it's better to be mean; I'm as sensitive to harsh
> comments as any one else. But given a choice between the creator of
> Minix telling me my operating system is a bad idea, and having him
> saying nothing, I'd rather have the unpleasant opinion. If you really
> believe in your wild and crazy idea, you should look for useful advice
> in his comments and take his criticism as a challenge. At any rate, by
> responding, he has opened himself up to a further dialogue, which I
> think we can all agree is a good thing.
>
>
> > As to the Bit Torrent thing:
> >
> I think there'd be much more buy-in to joining the torrent if the data
> were available for use by the end user. Why must the data be
> encrypted? I mean why not let me take the tarball and run it on my
> netbook so I can have an offline copy?
>
> --
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