Dusty I agree with what you are saying. I just meant to use the "starving students" analogy as an example and not to point fingers. Im sure that the gentleman has legitimate questions and needs help. Im just refering to business people who could donate equipment or resources to help the needs of Opensource movement like MPLUG. If it were not for the time, money and effort this group puts out in order to educate individuals like this gentleman and others, there wouldnt be an Opensource movement. Then people wouldnt know all the benefits of Opensource.
> Aloha, > > Come on guys, this has been blown WAY out of proportion! This was someone > asking for help. The second guy said he heard about linux from the CompUSA > thing and wanted help. This list used to be about helping people and not > chastising them for asking for help! It is okay to give someone free help, > but insulting if they offer to pay a little money? > > This list used to be about talking about open source and helping each other > learn new things about open source, no matter if they are newbies or geeks > who have been using Unix since it only ran on a PDP-11. > > I think we need to calm down a little, this is supposed to be about > building the open source community in Hawaii, isn't it? > > Dusty > > > > > > > I agree with what you depict as Spam. I believe in most situations > > like the "starving students" declaration, people are looking for a > > cheap way to get someone to do their dirty work and get free training > > in the process. I particularly dont like that people would abuse the > > list by resorting to such tactics just to save a few bucks. Its rather > > insulting. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LUAU mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau > > > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau >