__/ [ Rafael ] on Monday 12 February 2007 10:17 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> William Poaster on Sunday
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>> Robert Parsonage on Sunday
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> For the past two weeks (roughly), one troll has been going through
>>>>>> about 1000 of my messages in Google Groups. He rated all of them 1 out
>>>>>> of 5. There's similar stuff going on in Digg.com.
> >>>>
>>>>> Stop moaning Roy. You put yourself in this position. Live with it. Just
>>>>> stick to Linux advocacy and ignore the attacks. I'm not the only Linux
>>>>> advocate who appreciates your news posts.
> >>>
>>>> I wasn't moaning at all. In fact, it's rather flattering to know that
>>>> people spend hours just trying to damage some meaningless numbers that
>>>> are bound to a stranger's profile. I just wanted to clarify this, just
>>>> in case people see my rates declining from 4/5 to 2/5 within a couple of
>>>> weeks. Over at Digg, people said to me things like "I don't understand
>>>> why people mod you dowm". In both cases, the ratings say nothing about
>>>> who is voting, so it's open for abuse.
> >>
>>> IMO for the shills & trolls to be coming after you like this, Roy, you
>>> must *really* be getting under their skin! They have no response to the
>>> advance of GNU/linux, so all they can do is attack the messenger.
>>> Actually that *could* backfire on them, because some people might take an
>>> interest in what the fuss is about, which in turn could get them curious
>>> about GNU/linux.
>>>
>>> Excellent, keep up the good work. :-)
>>
>> You know, being a little paranoid here, I'm beginning to wonder if PJ's
>> burnout ("health break") is a result of ongoing stomach illness that comes
>> from deliberate food poisoning. No, I'm not suggesting someone is putting
>> something in her food. I never said anything like this. No way.
>
> I am sorry to hear of PJ's illness. Greed sometimes makes people do
> strange things, but wait .... I didn't say that.
>
> I thought this statement was apt:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/ccd7c227c30738db
>
>> I see a completely different picture occurring overall in the world
>> today. There are those who would like us to believe that popular
>> network statistical organisations present us gospel truth, that so
>> called certified studies of TCO make proprietary model more cost
>> effective than the quiet FOSS, etc.
>>
>> The picture is actually quite different as we hear bits and pieces of
>> different governments deploying FOSS and Linux. It is happening little
>> by little, but when it happens, it is now occurring in large
>> deployments. It is not arithmetic but exponential.
>>
>> The revolution has already begun and is making great strides.
>
> Linux and FOSS has already won.
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