* Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > If people around here (and elsewhere) would quit treating Linux/GNU > > project as if it were a religion, a political statement, a way to > > change the world paradigm, a poke in the eye at the mythically evil > > MicroSoft Empire, an end to capitalism as we know it, and a triumph > > of the downtrodden masses over the evil rich in general, and treat it > > as an Operating System and associated Support Programs we'd ALL > > be better off. > > Hear, hear! Know how many of the above prevails in the lists in general? > Know how off putting it is to someone who doesn't agree with 99% of it? :) >
Is this really "off putting"? Why? Maybe I am just not really seeing what is meant here, but I cannot recall a single instance of being bothered because somebody held a particular view concerning the political or philosophical nature of GNU or Linux. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
