On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 07:28 PM, Vox wrote:
Well, on a technical standpoint, no, he's not often wrong. At least not in my dealings with him. From a social standpoint, well... let's just say he and I don't often see eye to eye. I've had quite a number of... ahem... discussions with Theo in the past that turned quite muddy.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, it doesn't affect BIND9. However, there are other issues here, and I'm extremely pissed with ISC at the moment. I'll boycott BIND in any way I can. Nevermind the technical merits for not using BIND, there are social merits here that need to be looked at.
And yes... zealotry is nothing. In fact, I think of myself as quite a Linux activist, but I'd literally slash my throat if I thought I was becoming a zealot. I appreciate many different operating systems for the many things they provide; each has it's own strength and weakness. For instance, I appreciate being able to play EverQuest on my Win2k box. I also appreciate not being able to run anything of consequence on the same box because then I'll appreciate my Linux boxes even more. =)
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