machismo? If I knew that it was macho to go to MS presentations I'd gone long ago! ;)
Maybe you meant masochism? S. On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:21:51 -0600, Aaron J. Seigo wrote > On Thursday 28 April 2005 11:09, Shane wrote: > > 1) Good ideas withstand scrutiny. > > ... and there is a place and a time for that scrutiny. > > > We choose Linux because it's better and > > we know it. Seeing the presentation and hearing the arguments shows we > > choose Linux because we know the alturnatives and not because of dogma. We > > nor Linux can be hurt by a presentation. > > no, but first time comers to a Linux User's Group meeting can be put > off by the rather subtle mischaracterizations that made up the bulk > of Barnaby's presentation. > > > 2) Know your adversaries. Let's hear the FUD to better refute it later. > > that's why several of us went the MS presentations. there's no need > to give additional audience to that FUD. > > > 3) We won the "argument" MS versus FOSS years ago. Everybody else is just > > catching on. This doesn't have to be a debate. > > of course. unfortunately, MS doesn't see it that way. this was well > evidenced by the presentation on Tuesday. > > > 4) Let's put a stake in the heart of the "overbearing linux euthusiast" > > myth. We'll show that Linux users "hear both sides." > > there's a fine line between being self assured and acts of machismo. > ;) > > -- > Aaron J. Seigo > GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
