Re: changing flavor of the linux world? was: craig sanders

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

An Thi-Nguyen Le <anle@ews.uiuc.edu> writes:

> Welcome to the real world.  You get any group of people together,
> there will always be the idiots, the antagonizers, the backstabbing,
> the politics, etc etc etc.  And flamewars are, I believe, quite quite
> ancient on all the lists/organizations/etc you mention.

I can assure you that I've been in the real world my entire life.  (Is
there some other world other than this one that I might have been on?)
In all of it, from working for the FSF, to MIT, to being in four
different universities, to any number of religious organizations, the
kind of vitriol that Craig Sanders spews would be totally utterly
unacceptible, such that he would be expelled in very short order.

I've encountered plenty of idiots, antagonizers, backstabbers,
politicians, etc.; I've been on Usenet since 1986; and Craig's degree
of vitriolic abuse is actually far and above worse than anything I've
seen even on talk.abortion on its worst days.

I'm willing to deal with idiots, antagonizers, backstabbers,
politicians, harsh language, and flamewars.  Craig's degree of abuse
goes far beyond any of that.

Thomas