On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 02:26:24AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > One thing I've noticed about the Debian lists and attitudes: There is a group > of people that are so absolutely sure they're right, that they are determined > they will do things their way, and no other way, whether it's a "reply to", > top posting, or ANYTHING. I've watched these people on lists, read their > comments in interviews or articles, and the more I hear discussions like > this, the more I think the only conclusion about such people is they are the > very source of the geek stereotype: someone who is so focused on tech and on > things that they have absolutely no understanding of people, human behavior, > or, even more so, such a thing as programs that have intuitive behavior. > Instead of dealing with the human side of things, they prefer to flaunt their > IQ by showing off how they can run esoteric programs that comparatively few > people need. > > The more I listen, especially to this thread, the more I am forced to > conclude > that is exactly what is going on: There are people who cannot abide being > part of the human race, so they hide in computers. But when more come in, > they hide in a minority OS. When more come in, they hide in the distros with > the reputation of requiring a genius to understand. I'm sure a good many of > them will, as more Debian based distros become popular, finally flee to BSD > variants, all so they can spend all their time making silly rules about how > to reply to something and what a good e-mail program and whether top posting > is evil or not.
These people are the guides. If they thought as the rest of the guided humans, the future would be blackly dark, as when under a thunderstorm. They have created Debian by not listening to the multitudes. The multitudes lack vision. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
