Steve Lamb 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? :)
I don't agree with 99% of straw man arguments. Such arguments are indeed offputting, and when combined with ridicule as in the examples cited, are inflammatory and constitute good examples of "community hostility."