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> On Sun, 16 May 2010 21:08:22 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Terry Porter on Friday 14 May 2010 22:41 : \____
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>>> On Fri, 14 May 2010 15:05:42 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>> ____/ ray on Thursday 13 May 2010 18:15 : \____
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>>>>> Hopefully, newbies to the group will quickly recognize that the
>>>>> looney DooFuS is a raving lunatic with some sort of vendetta against
>>>>> Ubuntu. He has nothing better to do with his life, so he spends his
>>>>> entire day ferreting out obscure trouble reports to post here.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dismiss his postings and you won't miss a thing.
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>>>> People won't attack something that doesn't pose a threat to
>>>> them.
>>> ^ sane
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>> But that would suggest that Linux might not be a threat.
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> I wouldn't want to imply that Roy, because to Microsoft and Apple, Linux
> is definitely a threat. It's *the* threat.
More broadly, freedom is a threat to them. They also fight Theora, for example.
> However assuming the ravings of DFS/flatfish etc are the creation of a
> sane person probably only gives credibility and encourages such
> activities.
>
> In COLA, any nutjob can gain the kind of instant audience they crave by
> criticising Linux or defending Microsoft, whereas in real life their
> rantings engender the kind of broken-nose response that keeps them safely
> tucked away in the basement.
I started killfiling the trolls around 2006 and been happy since. :-) I hadn't used a killfile
until the libel against me began.
The worst one can do is pay attention to the hecklers who often commit crime.
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