> 3. We welcome presentations on all sorts of software at our meetings.
> We've even been known to have presentations about commercial, proprietary
> software (gasp!). Anyone who wants to advocate a particular software, or
> feels strongly enough about it to make a pitch for it, or just wants to
> talk about it - please contact Jerry, myself, or one of the chapter chairs
> - trust me, we'll fit you into our <sarcasm>overloaded</sarcasm> meeting
> schedules.
Why would anyone dare to offer to talk about alternative software in
person, when mere mention of it on the list causes irrational and hostile
outbursts from proponents of the status quo?
Based on posts by the various zealots on this list, I prefer to remian in
the periphery, where I can only have epithets hurled at me, rather than
beer mugs.
Last I heard, "Linux" was an OS kernel, which would support a broad
variety of CPUs, C libraries, and god forbid, user applications like email
and DNS servers.
Yet some people stubbornly assert that the only god-sanctioned
applications are sendmail, BIND, wu-ftp, inetd, etc.
My suspicion is that most of the loud mouths are middle-aged sysadmins,
who have a substantial investment in sendmail, etc, after having spent
years mastering the nuances of configuring the software, and are too
scared of the notion that their labors may be obsoleted by new software to
post objective remarks.
In my mind the Linux movement is about migrating towards the Next Better
Thing that is open source. Linux is the next best *nix kernel. As far
as the next best software for particular services, I certainly hope that
is open for honest debate. I have my opinions and am happy to discuss
them with any interested persons. I just hope that such a meeting would
be without the fascists that try to illegitemize my opinions and objective
observations.
--LM
If you wanna have a flame war, at least allow yourself the dignity of
researching your statments first. Like "when was the most recent
root-granting bug" in sendmail or qmail.....
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