[svlug] attitudes

[Rick Moen]

begin  Chris Paul quotation:
> I have to ditto this.

But ditto _what_?  The remainder of what you wrote seemed to have no
connection to the prior discussion.

> I want to stick up for others like me that view computers as tools, not a
> way of life and a religion.

It's possible that this might have been relevant, had someone expressed 
the contrary view.

> In the "Real World" most shops won't run only Linux and that a working
> knowledge of both MS and Opensource is most useful to the companies out
> there that make money.

This is true, but, more to the point, nobody has said otherwise.

> The fact that Microsoft is antagonistic (to say the least) towards
> OpenSource is another matter. I think it is wrong. I don't like it. But
> there are better ways to fight it.

This notion of "fighting Microsoft" seems to be basically yours.  It
certainly isn't mine.

But I guess everyone needs a hobby.

> I mean, we want the Open Source movement to sound rational and relevant,
> right, not whiny, judgmental, and smarter-than-thou, right?

Oh, so, for example, you would not approve of someone coming onto this
list under a pseudonym using a throwaway account, pretending to be an
imaginary co-worker, for the sole purpose of calling us names?  Or do
you reserve your disapproval for people who dispose of the former by
summarily killfiling them?

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and scream out it with operatic force, volume and decorum, and then return to 
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