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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