This time Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes:
> On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 12:59 AM, Vox wrote: > >> I have the highest of admirations for Theo as a coder, even if I >> can't stand the personality he carries, at least on most of his >> email (never had the opportunity to meet him in person). > > Absolutely. I had the privilege of listening to Theo give a talk at > CanSec West 2000. Of course, he knocked Linux a lot (but had the > highest praise for OpenBSD, of course). It was still very > informative... and I can't say I disagree with him. That's the worse part of it all...it hurts to hear him, but I've not found many (if any) instances in which I can bash back at him because he's wrong :) >> Well, yes, that's true :) Tho I proly won't live it down with the >> other geeks here at the LUG if they notice I have that thing >> installed...bunch of FSF manics make RMS look conservative :) > > Bah. You can point fingers at them when they're running around trying > to patch bind and you're doing more productive things. Zealotry gets > you nowhere. Uhm...the latest BIND exploit doesn't affect bind9, right? :) And I agree with you...zealotry gets you nowhere...and I get enough bashing already with my use of nvidia drivers...but I can still enjoy warcraft3 and they can't ;) >>> No... I suspect you would have laid in bed all night just itching over >>> it if you hadn't written something... =) >> >> I actually got out of bed to answer it after I had decided not to >> <chuckle> :) > > See what I mean? =) :P Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
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