Am Freitag, 21. September 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 9/21/2012 4:16 PM, Neal Murphy wrote: > > On Friday, September 21, 2012 04:53:21 PM Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> It's not writing style but attitude. My attitude is that people > >> should be self reliant. Only when they search and can't find an > >> answer should they ask on a mailing list. Especially in this case, > >> when the answer is so damn easy to find, literally clicking one > >> link on the Debian home page and reading the subsequent page. > > > > > > > > I wholly disagree. First, when someone lowers himself to ask a > > question in a public forum, it is usually because she has been > > unable to find the answer > > That's how it's supposed to work, but rarely does. Most people these > days go straight for the mailing list hoping to save themselves the > time/effort of doing research. This is what the OP did in this case, > which shoots your argument down entirely.
And how do you actually know that? I agree it seems likely. But maybe Mauro made some effort? > WRT my attitude driving people away from FLOSS, apparently you've never > heard of a guy named Linus' Torvalds and his behavior. I'm absolutely > tame compared to Linus: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36yNWw_07g 1. I do not think that Linus is the best example to follow, just cause he started the whole Linux kernel thing. 2. He attacked a company, namely NVidia. He didn´t attack anyone personally. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209231514.57553.mar...@lichtvoll.de
