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> Roy Schestowitz stated in post 1399509.2BAyJ8zxgJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 7/6/11
> 12:50 PM:
>
> ...
>>>>>>>>>> Why do you care?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Because Linux is amazing and many of the projects based on it are
>>>>>>>>> incredible. I would love to see Linux on the desktop gain quality and
>>>>>>>>> growth.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> If you dislike Linux, why roam here?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I do not dislike Linux.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You spell a lot of time discrediting it and its proponents.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I discredit the idea that the status quo is ideal and that the low user
>>>>>>> base is because of almost exclusively external things. This is not only
>>>>>>> not true, it is poor advocacy - it is dishonest. Desktop Linux offers
>>>>>>> some amazing things, esp. given its lack of price - but some in COLA
>>>>>>> pretend it is in the same league as other more common desktop solutions
>>>>>>> and would work as well for the general user - and there is simply no
>>>>>>> evidence for that.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think you should find another hobby. What you do here is akin to
>>>>>> infiltrating religious forums to tell people in there that they are
>>>>>> idiots.
>>>>>> you're not going to achieve anything.
>>>>>>
>>>>> What is it you hope to achieve?
>>>>>
>>>> I like a platform and development paradigm. I want it to become more
>>>> widespread.
>>>
>>> Ditto here.
>>>
>>>> What *you* try to achieve seems to be nothing by annoyance to
>>>> others, in the wrong forum, too.
>>>
>>> How so? I encourage *honest* advocacy of Linux.
>>
>> Try spending time encouraging *honest* advocacy of iStuff. Lots more work to
>> do *There*.
>
> Not sure I follow. And why advocate Apple products in COLA? Sure,
> sometimes there is a reasoned comparison, but seems this is not the right
> forum for that. Still, if you feel the need I am OK with that - as long as
> you are honest about it.
>
> Oh, and I point out a lot of BS from the "advocates" in CSMA. Many (most?)
> of them are out and out liars. Sandman, for example, is just a lying
> scumbag. Carroll is worse. Tim Adams is a moron who cannot figure out the
> most simple of things and just gloms onto trolls who will back him. On and
> on.
IMHO, you should stay just in CSMA. People generally don't want you here, except
the trolls. And I can't blame them. You need to seriously think what you're
doing here except annoy people.
Think about it.
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