well _sir_, I just cant help _but_ notice _that_ you are all_acting douchebags--_and_ I thought _I_ might _make_ that obser_vation_.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:22 PM, David Schlesinger < david.schlesin...@access-company.com> wrote: > > Someone from Access chimed in on this one, glad he's getting paid to > dick > > around like this. > > Er, _what_? I'm afraid I'm unable to work out the relevance of this comment > to that message. > > Not to put too fine a point on it, I'm actually still on sabbatical this > week, so to be technical, I'm getting paid to _relax_. Watching my inbox > filling up with the same nonsensical "Mono is a Microsoft plot to take over > Linux, and Miguel and the gang are actually undercover shills for Steve > Ballmer" flamewar, instigated yet _again_ on this list by Mark Fink, is > harshing my mellow... > > Personally, I think you have to bend over backwards to suggest that Miguel > (and the rest of the folks) have not contributed _immeasurably_ over the > years to free software. > > As for Mono apps, as a photographer, I like F-Stop and I use it. Nautilus > might work for some folks, but with literally hundred and thousands of > photos to sort through, that won't work for me. If someone wants to come up > with a credible non-Mono replacement for that, and _then_ argue that F-Stop > should be removed, fine. But please don't tell me, in effect, that I should > use LaTex instead of Open Office to do all my documents because a) OO can > save things in MS Word format, and that's evil, or patented, or something, > and b) that LaTex works fine for _you_... > > The solution I see here is that Mark Fink and Remco and others who feel > similarly find some other distribution more to their tastes than Ubuntu. And > if Mark Shuttleworth wants or doesn't want something in Ubuntu, he's more > than capable of saying so, he doesn't need folks attempting to channel him > here... > -- Paige Adele Thompson Mobile: 206-446-630 E-mail/GTalk: erra...@devel.ws
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