After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> Physically attacked for using FOSS
>
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>| It already happened to me a few days ago when I was out wearing my new KPLUG
>| T-shirt. In the parking lot at CV center, I was forced to physically defend
>| my person and the honor of KPLUG from some moron who claimed that FOSS was
>| illegal and had cost him his job, and that he couldn't find work because he
>| couldn't do Linux. He likened the money I make teaching and consulting with
>| Linux to blood money and expressed a desire to make me pay. I perhaps made a
>| mistake in saying I taught a class in Linux and would be glad to teach him
>| about it, because he grabbed my shirt in his fist and I responded
>| aggressively. Um, luckily for me, our side won decisively.
> `----
>
> http://www.kernel-panic.org/pipermail/kplug-list/2009-March/106765.html
Follow-on:
http://www.kernel-panic.org/pipermail/kplug-list/2009-March/106780.html
Given that he
a) had lost work, as he perceived it, due to lack of Linux skills,
b) had met someone who was into Linux and taught a class in it, and
c) tried to beat this person up,
I suspect that his lack of employment has very little to do with his
lack of Linux skills.
Was this in 'tlanta? DFS?
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Die, v.:
To stop sinning suddenly.
-- Elbert Hubbard
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