-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hi there and Happy Pesakh everyone, I just peeked at IGLU and saw that the April 1st joke (which I found a bit uneasy to begin with) to have gathered some real problematic answers this week, which go into dirty politics. Seeing that such posts remain for a long time on the front page, and I know that business people and reporters DO check out the page once in a while, the Cabal should consider removing them to avoid bad publicity for the group's cause. I remember a case 3-4 years ago when a group of guys from Gaza wanted to cooperate (for real) and the assholes of the linux-il list had them flee away from even the mailing list. While you can't do more than condemn it on the list, you sould definitely not encourage it on your public website. Out of all the Linux websites and webgroups, I feel the Israeli Linux people should have been more sensitive to political aspects and stick to a technical joke rather than an obvious troll for racist remarks. Linux is about sharing and cooperation, afterall. if linux-il can't set an example and initiate cooperation, it should at least not act as a billboard for the opposite oppinions :-( while on the subject of BSI, I'll add a positive idea here, so as not to make this entire post a negative one. It annoys the hell out of me that a commercial organization like that is permitted to advertise FUD on Galatz and Galgalatz. I hope some of you have contacts in IBM or some other big Linux supporter who can afford this: financial help to linux-il as proxy to advertise free software as an Alternative for illegally copied proprietary software. btw, on May 5th: http://microsoft.com/israel/events/biz_event.asp M$Offics XP is out. Once again the public beta is released one day AFTER the program went gold, out to the printers. the small business owners out there should be aware of the competition/option of Linux. for now not competing with a Hebrew office but a small business server at the very least. I've been out of touch with Linux and the group for some time now, but I'll come to a demo if you guys arrange it :) Have a great one, Ira. P.S. To whoever is maintaining the mirrors: my apt-get keeps getting daily 404s. if you don't have the disk space it's not worth half-mirroring verticly, instead do half-mirrors horizontally. in any case, I'm removing iglu from my sources.list for now, sadly. - -- Ira Abramov Percussive Maintenance Expert Consultant get the key and join the web of trust: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: for more info see http://ira.abramov.org/pgp/ iQCVAwUBOtAuez01DAmtKbBRAQE11AQAn1+T7Mw5Ub+hxkwGco2+8tDYia8ONhGV XWjY50HuvTVOjLTl7R/Da25QVHgQyApa4ZMiu8QB7AFrKk5iQ6kgoz1Xii/gNLiW 2LulrqJyGL4yK7oeiZtn8PI+6KaekXUIHPhCoxM8JIvBPeu0aSdUG5DcmXDp08LP vYiIJYB9lMA= =ngxF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives available at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
