On Jul 26, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Mark Wallace wrote: > We need to remind ourselves that we are the open source people and we > only deal with proprietary software and politics to the degree that it > facilitates helping open source people use their systems.
I just want to touch on this one particular point. I love Linux. I use it on 99.9% of my servers (there's always that one damned application) at work. In that respect, a LUG is an eminently useful tool both for me to learn from and to give back to in the form of knowledge learned. However, that is *not* to say, however, that I "only deal with proprietary software... to facilitate helping open source people". I love my Mac Book Pro, running OS X. It is bad-ass, and frankly, IMHO, is everything Linux could have been on the desktop if there'd been some sort of overseer pushing it in the right direction. And you can have my Mac when you pry it from my cold dead hands. Does that make me "not" a Linux guy? I don't think so. There are some of us who are of the mindset that "every tool for the appropriate task", and if that tool is closed-source, so be it, and if that task is open-source, so be it. Just my $0.02 worth. :-) Cheers, D _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Aug 4 - Samba Sep 1 - BOINC Oct 6 - Creating Firefox Extensions
