To the point made immediately previous to my last comment: no one is forcing you to participate in this thread; if you don't like it, you are absolutely free - and I encourage you - to ignore it. Then you won't be bothered by it.
Oh, and by the way, it is relevant to a discussion - of open-source programming, which is what we are doing. On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Richard Vickery < richard.vicker...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan < > pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 10:18 -0700, les wrote: >> > On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 15:20 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> > > On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 10:12 -0700, Thomas Dineen wrote: >> > > > I have a simple question: What the hell dose this rant have to >> do >> > > > with: >> > > > "Community Support For Fedora Users"?????????? >> > > >> > > Nothing whatever. Not that that ever stopped anyone. >> > > >> > > [BTW, please don't top-post on this list] >> > > >> > > poc >> > > >> > >> > I think it does have a lot to do with Linux users and developers. We >> > are often grouped with the "hackers" negatively, and we need to make >> > sure that people understand the difference. Whether you agree or not, >> > is a personal feeling. Perceptions matter, and hacking which is using >> > something in a way not necessarily intended by the original designer is >> > a good hack. If someone is breaking into systems and doing harm, that >> > is cracking. >> >> By the same argument, we could also talk about a whole raft of issues to >> do with free software or free culture, but that's not the purpose of >> this list. The list is specifically for discussing Fedora. The whole >> "hacking" thread doesn't even mention Fedora, and would be more >> appropriate in any of the other lists, blogs, hashtags or whatever that >> focus on these issues. >> >> poc >> >> -- >> users mailing list >> users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >> > > Er... Fedora isn't mentioned that much in what we do, much less the > discussions. >
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