Here's a Synopsis:
"Unless you know as much as I do, you are not fit to
ask a question."
You know, had I gotten this type of treatment when I
started in Linux, I would have CERTAINLY quit (BeOS
was my favorite OS for a while, and it's still a very
close second). This is on par with those 1337 h4x0rz
and their treatment of those "below" them. Perhaps
this person is such a creature? certainly sounds like
it. Did he ever question as to whether this person
even KNEW the sources to which he could ask the
question, aside from other users? Honestly, this seems
more to me a Microsoft troll than (supposedly) the
person who asked the question. I thought Open Source
was all about freedom of information. If he didn't
want the question to be asked again, perhaps he should
have just given him the links to where the answer(s)
might be found?
I'm sorry, but were I a moderator at this list, this
flamer would have had a VERY WELL DESERVED banning
from the list. There's sucha a thing as freedom of
speech. This, however, crosses the line to assault.
Makes me glad to be in SLUG.
Norb
>
> On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:16:40AM -0700, someone
> whose name I won't
> mention wrote _six personal insults_ in response to
> a question from
> a beginner. The questioner is called "stupid",
> "lazy", "in a coma",
> and is said to "deserve" his problem, to have "bad
> DNA", which
> should "stop here", and to be "trying to discredit"
> Linux on behalf
> of Microsoft.
>
> We are programmed by our culture and by emotional
> abuse in childhood
> to feel superior to people different in any way from
> ourselves, and
> to hate, attack, and destroy them. This is embodied
> in the Bible,
> competitive sports, racism, patriotism, and
> capitalism. It is
> *always* harmful.
>
> This attitude and behavior is especially
> inappropriate in regard
> to GNU/Linux, which is developed and propagated by
> the cooperation
> of many people.
>
> I hope the person who asked the question will not be
> turned off by
> the attack and will realize that most people
> connected with Linux
> and free/open software are happy to help. Please
> stay on this
> list -- it is not for experts only (although there
> are a lot of
> them here!). Also look at the documentation in
> www.linuxdoc.org,
> especially the HOWTO files.
>
> Mark
>
>
> >I was wondering how long it's going to take for
> somebody answering that
> >"stupid question". Why stupid? First, the subject
> line, "help". Nothing
> >about the subject! What the hell do they teach in
> schools these days?
>
> >We just celebrated 10 years of Linux. Well it's
> more than that, a decade
> >of GNU/Linux and we still get questions like that.
> Do a little search
> >(it's free as in free $) in popular places, news
> groups, history of our
> >mailing list, go to the public library, and you'll
> find that this exact
> >question has been asked thousands of times before,
> in many languages I
> >might add.
>
> >No, I won't do that job for you! It's like, I need
> some information but
> >I'm too lazy to go to the library, so fetch a book
> or a magazine, open it
> >on the right page and read it to me.
>
> >Unless somebody woke up in a cemetary from a DOS
> coma and doesn't know
> >where to start, I can only recommend that the
> person, who asked the
> >question in the first place, be rewarded with a DDA
> (Digital Darwin
> >Award.)
>
> >My position is that if the mentioned problem really
> happened then the
> >person simply deserves it. Enough of bad DNA, let's
> stop it here.
>
> >It's most likely that the original post was just
> another baseless "Windows
> >attack" on most user friendly OS at this time
> trying to discredit it's
> >flexibility; FUD in other words.
>
>
>
>
>
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