Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

[Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com>]

On Saturday 27 January 2007 00:32, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 01/26/07 23:18, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > On Friday 26 January 2007 23:19, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> >> Piotr Dziubinski wrote:
> >>> Ex-Debian user...
> >>> ... back to the Gentoo
> >>
> >> If going to the Mozilla website to download and install Firefox is
> >> too much work for you, Debian is definitely not a good choice for
> >> you.  You might try another OS called Windows--I hear it's got its
> >> own browser that's pretty popular.
> >
> > Now that's just mean.  See my earlier response about rudeness being
> > a weak man's imitation of strength.  You've made good points in
> > your other posts on this thread, but there is no reason to be that
> > mean to a frustrated user.  It just pours fuel on the fire and
> > justifies those who say that Linux people are more concerned about
> > acting superior because they think they're smart than in helping
> > others.
>
> I can see where some would call it rude.  Others would say, "direct
> and unvarnished".  There was no cursing, no name calling.  The last
> sentence was a little snide, and prudence suggests it shouldn't have
> been written, but I won't call it mean.

You can break it into individual sentences and say it's not rude, but 
the overall effect was one of rudeness and it was quite, as you say, 
snide.

>
> But then, I don't think that *any* MSFT products should be allowed
> on the internet, and that people should be licensed to use the
> internet.  

Definitely agree with that.

> (Teenagers do not have an unalienable right to do have 
> Myspace pages 

Personally, I'm fine with letting teens on MySpace and similar 
wastelands.  Let them have places like that so they're busy enough to 
not care about the rest of the net.

> and click on every "free nude girlz" link they see.) 

How else are they going to fill up their 300GB hard drives if they can't 
download nudie pics?

Hal