Re: Help

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Chris Gray wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 02:20:23PM -0800, Erik Ryberg wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Your observation is probably sadly accurate -- people are coming to
> > > Linux with zero understanding of the command line or Unix philosophy.
> > > I'd prefer to see occasional ribbing a'la Oswald than a less featureful
> > > sig.
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 11:20:57AM -0800, John Bagdanoff wrote:
> > > > I've subscribed & unsubscribed several times over the last 2 years
> > > > easily enough, but never could decipher the signature of this list.
> > > > Since more and more people from corel and storm distros are joining,
> > > > maybe a more decipherable sig could be written?
> >
> > If your objective is to keep debian only for former and current Unix users, then your
> > proposal/attitude makes plenty of sense.  If you wish to assist the spread and use of linux
> > and debian and free(dom) software, then it doesn't.  My own vote is to discard every element
> > of geekish elitism immediately.  That doesn't mean discarding the Unix way of doing things,
> > it just means helping others get there more smoothly.
> >
>
> I vote we keep the sig.  It is geekish elitism, but when I first figured out
> what the sig means, I was moderately proud of myself for about 10 minutes.
> I had been seeing this thing at the bottom of each email for months and
> finally its meaning clicked.
>
> It is geekish elitism.  That has been what Debian has been about for
> quite a while, and what drew me to it in the first place.  I do want to keep
> Debian for at least current Unix users.  Linux might not quite be Unix in
> some definitions, but it sure is close.  I'm not saying that there should be
> a test to be able to use Debian, or anything stupid like that.  On the
> contrary, I think we should keep things as easy as possible.  But it should
> also be the best.
>
> It's also the most elegant way to unsubscribe from the list.
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> Chris Gray
>

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