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Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]



* Steve Lamb (grey@dmiyu.org) wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> > If people around here (and elsewhere) would quit treating Linux/GNU
> > project as if it were a religion, a political statement, a way to
> > change the world paradigm, a poke in the eye at the mythically evil
> > MicroSoft Empire, an end to capitalism as we know it, and a triumph
> > of the downtrodden masses over the evil rich in general, and treat it
> > as an Operating System and associated Support Programs we'd ALL
> > be better off.
> 
>     Hear, hear!  Know how many of the above prevails in the lists in general?
>  Know how off putting it is to someone who doesn't agree with 99% of it?  :)
> 

Is this really "off putting"?  Why?  Maybe I am just not really seeing
what is meant here, but I cannot recall a single instance of being
bothered because somebody held a particular view concerning the
political or philosophical nature of GNU or Linux.

Patrick



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