____/ Mark Kent on Sunday 06 January 2008 11:34 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> A little respect, please!
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| It is quite commonplace to talk about "the" FOSS community, but like I've
>>| stated so many times, there is no such thing as "the" FOSS community. As a
>>| matter of fact, there are many communities.
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| If we choose to research our blogs, you do not have the right to call
>>| us "obsessive". If we are concerned about the FUD that destroys our work,
>>| you do not have the right to accuse us of "extreme paranoia". If we are
>>| attacked and we react, we do not suffer from a "lack of civility and a
>>| quickness to give and take offense". If we feel that "there can be no truce
>>| with [insert object of obsession here]" we have every right to vent that
>>| opinion. Or was the First Amendment repealed while I was sleeping? "Many of
>>| the sort of people I'm talking about know that 'conspiracy theory' can be
>>| negative term, and are insulted if you apply it to them". Well, doesn't
>>| everyone?
>> `----
>>
>> http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/01/little-respect-please.html
>>
>> Typical.
>
> Personally, I find multiple coincidences very hard to believe in.
> Nature prefers high entropy, so when things are not looking chaotic, it
> typically shows that something is afoot.
>
>> Same as in politics. Don't like someone who tells the truth? Start a
>> smear campaign.
>
> Like the guy from RM editing the wikipaedia entry on Becta, for example?
I should really follow the mailing lists more closely. But yes, it's typical.
Microsoft and SCO did that too. Many times in Microsoft's case in fact... they
also 'airbrushed' the article about Bill Gates, based on the several times I
saw it.
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