Bill Sconce said:
><curmudgeonMode>
>Each time one of us helps a newbie avoid being burned we advance the
>cause of "World Domination".
>
>Conversely, shrugging at newbies' difficulties is destructive, and
>casts us as elitists:
>
> "They bought from Wal-Mart. They didn't come to us first.
> They're not even smart like us. Let 'em destroy their
> systems." (*2)
>
>I do not want to be drawn into endless exercises of bailing out the
>incompetent, any more than the next person. But unawareness of Linux
>is no crime. Unawareness is neither evidence of incompetence, of
>inability, or of unwillingness to learn. We cannot expect to achieve
>"World Domination" without educating people who are today's unaware,
>including the vast majority of "ordinary" people. Most of the people
>who are like us are already Linux users. :)
>
></curmudgeonMode>
Yep, we need to help newbies on this list (note: I often send new folks
to the list when I can't answer questions - because all I would do then is
ask on the list, and why have someone in the middle).
I don't think we've been too elitist on this list, although it does
happen. We might want a web pointer to sites such as
www.linuxnewbies.org.
jeff
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Thought for today: microReid /mi:'kroh-reed/ n.
See microLenat.
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