![]() But just because he's the benevolent dictator of the kernel, it doesn't mean that he speaks and we're all expected to tow the line. I want a good laugh, or I want an equally intelligence counterpoint. He's practical, diplomatic, funny, and articulate-that's why I read the headlines when his name pops up. Other times he says goofy things like the OpenBSD developers are masturbating monkeys. If you've been keeping up with Linus over the years, then you'll see that just about everything he says ends up being controversial. Keep it all in it's deserved perspective no matter how much anyone tries to make it a big whopping deal. The disease of MSPhobia is best treated with a calm reason. Worse, such emotional responses tend to polarize people - each side no longer thinking about what they say and do but instead being driven by an emotional desire to be right. Those who choose to react to the Microsoft hate with equally strong emotions are essentially guilty of the exact same mistake. It's mostly the result of human social instinct, both trying to fit into a community and disparaging a separate community (our monkeys are better than their monkeys!). Those who hate Microsoft are wasting their time and energy on something that doesn't deserve the effort. there's something more putrescent going on than one person falling into the us-vs-them trap.Īnything that sparks such strong emotions either way over operating systems has grown well out of anything resembling reasonable proportions. When someone can type "M$" and spark an angry dogpile of people proclaiming that it demonstrates a terrible immaturity, incurable ignorance, and the like. MSPhobia is a disease of community, not individuals. The same can be said about many others who don't like microsoft. I use Windows and Linux and it will probably always be that way i like them both.Īgain, the hatred/dislike/whatever of microsoft has nothing to do with windows and linux in my case. They are just trolls and I treat them like trolls.Īgreed 100% with you, Zealots really annoy me. I don't expect any intelligent debate from people who call themselves LINSUX on a linux forum. Somebody else stated their objections about using the terms like microshit here. Have we forgotten how to have a creative and intelligent debate of something on the merits without stooping to calling each other by names we used when we were toddlers? If you dislike an individual or group that much, why go poking a stick in the badger hole? You know it annoys the badger, the badger knows it annoys the badger and you wake the neighbors with the noise. ![]() Using a pejorative term just to belittle someone else does great harm to any dialogue that may ensue. ![]() That is exactly the kind of thing being discussed in this thread - the seeming necessity to drive a personal insult directly at someone you happen to disagree with. I'm not picking on you here - I am just using your post as an example. ![]()
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