On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:25:27 -0400, Donn Miller wrote:
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> Interesting how the mob mentality works. Is it a result of some sort of
> cult mentality, that like minds tend to be drawn to the same "cause"?
As it relates to COLA:
I think that it's two things.
1. An unhealthy obsession with an inanimate object that most people could
give a rat's ass about.
IOW an operating system, be it Linux, OSX or Windows.
2. A paranoia that leads them to believe that Microsoft paid trolls are
in their midst trying to attack them.
> This group used to have a religious fervor to it that seems to have died
> down recently.
That's because the group has become an rss feed for that nutsack
Shysterwitch.
It's thousands of messages like:
Hp is using Linux in a hot air balloon.
And then the response by shill Mark Kent:
Wow that's great.
Then Shysterwitch:
Yea, I would hate to have to reboot that server.. yuk yuk!!!
It's the same pattern over and over and over again.
No advocacy at all.
Especially rapskat seems to have been a little
> fanatical, but I do agree with some of his points; just not to the
> extremes that he and others do.
Rappy was extreme, I agree and I still don't think he could ever play that
many videos and do all that other stuff on that underpowered machine.
However, I know rappy means well and he and I have discussed some audio
stuff (ogg vs mp3) offline a little and we agree pretty much.
Whatever the case, rappy is a good Linux advocate.
His posts spawn discussion and as such are an archived wealth of
information for people searching the web for Linux information.
Contrast that with a barrage of News posts that can be found in 100
different places.
Sure they are on topic, mostly, but interesting?
Since I subscribe to many of the same feeds, I don't think so.
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