Can anybody here force this off? On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Michael C. Robinson < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 20:02 -0700, Russell Johnson wrote: > > You are not writing about computer science Michael. You are writing about > a teachers, and your inability to learn. That is not the topic of this list. > > > > Russell Johnson > > [email protected] > > You are not the plug community Russell and I never said that Mark Jones > can't teach. Nobody is incapable of learning where not everyone can > learn about computer science in general and Linux specifically the same > way. Mark Jones in my opinion teaches in a way that demands a different > background than the average person who grows up in Oregon is likely to > have. If it is hard to learn from Mark Jones because K-12 education > stinks in Oregon, that's not Mark Jones fault. Stop being a bully > Russell, what does it give you quite frankly? > > I hate plug-talk, I hate reading that Obama needs a new pair of shoes > when I voted against him. I also hate that people will get into > atheistic rants on there among other things. That this community > maintains the plug-talk list at all is in my opinion a sad state of > affairs. > > Now it is widely known that Mark Jones is a computer science teacher. > I am writing about computer science if I talk about him, that is > understood, and that is indeed germane to this list. Is plug for the > discussion of Linux/Unix specifically and in more general terms > computer science, or not? > > If tomorrow there are no new computer scientists and the ones that > currently exist die off sooner than later, Linux will be severely > impacted. Helping someone get through computer science and become > competent, especially someone who wants to work on Linux systems, is in > the long term interest of this community. Linux would not exist at all > if Linus hadn't received help from others over the Internet. Imagine > Linux coming to fruition if it had been Linus's private project > developed without the benefit of the GNU tools and without the Internet. > There would be no Linux as we know it in that kind of an environment. > I'm sure Linus is intelligent and quite skilled, but look at OS projects > like Syllable, ReactOS, and especially Visopsys which need more help. > ReactOS, 12+ years old, is not stable. Linux is what, 21 years old? > Hasn't Linux been usable since 1993? The difference between Linux and > ReactOS or Linux and Visopsys is that Linux became usable quickly. > Point is, that wouldn't have happened if Linux had been Linus's pet > project or private hobby. Linus had to learn a lot to cobble together > the first stable Linux kernel. > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
