Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 02:57:05 +0000 Subject: Re: Are We Back to the "Wars" Now ? Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <2b9d26c4-b7ce-e56a-f5ea-9fb319e5c77e@example.net> From: "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> Organization: wokiesux Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 21:57:05 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2b9d26c4-b7ce-e56a-f5ea-9fb319e5c77e@example.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 62 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 99.101.150.97 X-Trace: sv3-sHXm7M7Dad5hPZg4v8xE+xISyvWOGuOuqPjN+xzHYpKFQq75Kzgk9ok9B/jH56RzHWxs3NnwN616Ma7!J2mp18khgbM4f769SStNIV66q+mb5kwtM1svAZOMEREjC8t8sfAE1madC3mkbdQ4kDymxsDHrGSD!PO2A394Cd1ef25Sz7Drx X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3364 On 11/18/24 4:13 AM, D wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 Nov 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: > >> There has been a long tendency in Linux/comp groups >> to horribly attack, belittle, abuse, anybody who has >> had a 'different experience' and sees things a little >> off some kinda poorly-defined 'norm'. >> >> Sorry, we all didn't come up on the same track. >> A thousand different paths, a thousand different >> styles of apps/needs/solutions. Computers let >> you DO that. >> >> Hey, if I feel the need to use files instead >> of 'pipes' then I WANT TO USE FILES INSTEAD >> OF PIPES. Don't like it ? Tuff titty. Any >> 'contributions' will be to tell me how to >> maximize that approach - not to rain down piss. >> >> (actually I think pipes are better - but there >> are and will be other approaches/reasons) >> >> The recent elections kinda upset the Linux/Unix >> groups - a lot of politics promoted a lot of >> threads. Well, the elections are OVER now. >> Back to business. >> >> BUT ... consider ... "back to business" does >> not need to mean "back to old habits". We all >> can do BETTER, move towards the future instead >> of being at each others throats over NOTHING. >> >> Just sayin' >> >> Most everybody here seems to have been in the >> groove since (or during) PUNCH CARDS. Let's >> not be petty. We all did it OUR WAY. >> >> Hey, I remember the giant handful of punch >> cards - DON'T DROP 'EM !  :-) > > Are you saying we should disregard the emperor? Doesn't he teach us that > our hate makes us stronger? Well, the 'woke' really did try to show us the power of higher, gigabuck-funded, hate :-) But that's all over for now. In any case, I prefer to see these comp groups as being much better when they are collaborative, rather than derogative. Be you old boy or newbie, everybody has a different 'vision', a slightly different take on 'how it should be done'. Adding 1000 cuts and ad-homs - all too common on usenet - does not represent any kind of improvement. Just wanted to say it.