[CentOS] Dogs, trolls, and neighborly free/open source

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Aug 5 18:23:25 UTC 2010


On 8/5/2010 1:02 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> I don't think it is the nature of the requests that are different
>> (although coders perhaps have to know more to even ask a reasonable
>> question), just the responses.   Coders seem much more likely to try to
>> make their work available to others that haven't even asked while
>> administrators pretend that everything they do is unique and not
>> reusable - or they don't want it to be.
>
> Mike, you seem to be misunderstanding - the lusers, like Hadi (sp?), are
> asking us to do their work for them, not help them to learn what they need
> to do it themselves.

No, the part I don't understand is why you can't ignore any request 
where you are unwilling or unable to help.  If everyone did, there would 
only be one or two messages on this thread instead of the current mess.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com



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