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From: A little confused Rajkumar Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I will answer this email and Sundeep's earlier email as one:
Hey, you mixed up mine, and one of Supreets emails. I'm S-u-n-d-e-e-p
and he's S-u-p-r-e-e-t. Anyway, enough being funny.. I'll respond to what i
can.
> a) I used the package provided by GNOME in RedHat 6.1 (wordprocessor if
you
> wish to call it) to "hard code" the minutes since I know HTML and have
been
> doing such work for the last 3 1/2 years! There was no automated tool
that I
> used and neither was it from the 'other camp'.
I too kinda resent this attitude of making people conform to one's
presumed notions of excellence. There's no need to prove yourself even if
you find a dreamweaver that suits you just right. In this case it might be
arguable still... but would the purists insist on me quitting a job just
because i do CAD, and there is no real CAD software for Linux. I ofcourse
claim to be in love with Linux, but please atleast dont make it reason
enough to limit my freedom of choice. For long, i've heard that Linux is not
just an OS, its a philosophy. A philosophy that gives you the freedom to do
what you want to do in all things software. If anyone's got an alternate
point of view, i'd love to be influenced.
> b) Your suspicions regarding my using software from the 'other camp' is
> ***perhaps*** because of my emails : at office we still use software from
> 'other camp' - I'm not responsible for this so don't blame me.
This mail comes from OE, like all my other mails do. And i'm the one
responsible. So what can one blame me for? Blasphemy? Or is someone suddenly
beginning to think that i'm braindead? I like it, so i like it. I didnt like
pine and i dont run X and i'm reading the mutt docs yet. So till i am done,
i'll use OE. Is Raju gonna ban me from the list for that?
> c) I rarely sulk : but when I was a teenager I saw (like the linux
movement of
> today) a similar problem happening with the Apple Macintosh era. Few
select
> people would be so 'charged' with the beauty of the Mac that in their
> over-enthusiasm they killed 'normal' people's curiosity.
Exactly. I took up Linux 2 years back for the joy of learning something
new. Then came the PCQ articles, and Linux-India and Raymonds articles....
and i was absolutely in love with myself to be doing something that has an
attitude. And i'd go about screamin' Linux down my college corridors, and
when people would ask me why? all i could talk was speed and stability. Not
many people were interested in The cathedral and the bazaar, and how many
people like to read kernel sources anyway. And whats more, quake and NFS
did'nt run on Linux then. So i probably ended up turning off more people
than i attracted. It's much lately that i've actually got a productivity
boost, and now have a nice sensible little non-geek-speak talk to give to
people who are interested that i can boast of scores of converts. So whats
the context, huh? Sorry, nothing. Just rambling because that analogy got my
train of thoughts started.
> this list can do html - I rarely underestimate people! BUT, I did
something
> at a general request on the list and I ought to be awarded.
You would have been, but thats not because someone had something
personal against you for not attending any meets ;-). Just that the site
never got updated, and for the longest time the lynx docs were actually
pointing to http://reality.sgi.com/somewhere/or/the/other . Things happen,
so chill. Lately, supreet's found this amazing script that does all the
spell check and HTMLization automagically. So i guess you can now
concentrate on making logos while i concentrate on writing the ASCII text
minutes. :o).
> logos -- so it is not true that I don't understand the GNU movement.
Please
> desist from giving advice to people when you don't know them enough.
Oooh, that hurt. What made you say that? Supreet sounds more like your
target. Flames | Supreet sethi. ;-)
> do you mean in your email trailer "God is real unless declared integer" -
> talk sense man; the world is not made of only engineers or mathematicians
but
> flesh and blood people who have the ability to think - appreciate that!!
There! Thats not me. Face him, you ugly Supreet ;-).
> If there is more that I can do for ILUG-D please tell me. I don't really
care
> about core dumps, flames, blah blah. I care about linux and I think
everybody
> on earth ought to have it.
Yeah baby! Cause love can last forever, even in the cold november
rain.... ;-).
