I agree fully with you, but I guess at this point I see this as problem
where a single individual is enforcing policy where no policy exists.
Now you can ask is the problem do to a lack of policy or an individual
who makes up policy on the spot, with little thought as he goes along.
Since I was at the brunt of this in the past, I guess I can admit that
a certain amount of bad blood is coming out now as I see the same thing
happening to others that happened in the past to me. An yes, I agree
this is definitely not in the interest of actually building and open
source community. I would like to point out that I'm also a member of
the "CLUE" group in Denver, and there are is virtually no equivalent
problem.
Dustin Cross wrote:
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
