On Sunday 04 June 2006 17:04, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> ...
>
> Randall, could you just please stop being so aggressive...
You think _I_ am being aggressive? I'm not the one throwing boilerplate
spam in the face of everyone who posts a technical question telling
them to go away.
It took me forever to get an answer to a simple question, and then it
turns out to be utterly at odds with the words ("the community") that
keep getting repeated ad nauseum in an attempt to shut people up.
How on earth does an attempt to get an answer to a simple question get
labelled as "aggressive?" People here are essentially trying to censor
others who have been granted access to the list. _That_ is aggressive!
Just come clean and restrict membership to people who won't ask
questions you don't want to see.
> The community is NOT only about the SUSE Linux distribution.
>
> It's also about 3rd package repositories (like Packman or mine, or
> the many others), it's about promoting the community and the
> distribution, it's about being present at events, writing and
> maintaining
> documentation, bringing people together, writing software for and
> around the distribution, coordinating efforts, etc...
Yes, but it's not about _the people_ ("the community"). It's about the
process of creating the distribution and issues that arise therein. The
term being used is irreconcilable with the definition profferred.
> This is not just a Linux distribution.
What, then? Are people really coming here for comraderie?
> cheers
There's another abuse of English... Call someone aggressive and end with
"cheers."
Randall Schulz
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