On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 09:07 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
One constant is that you've always been involved though :) You're obviously not creating the thread on your own. It's just a fact that it wasn't like this before. Maybe someone said something, but nobody went into a fierce fight over it.
I'm sure I "stirred things up." I'll admit that.
Given some of the other posts I've now seen, it seems I was the "first jerk" that finally started putting his foot down and said "we don't need the anti-Red Hat junk." So others actually felt like they could let their opinions be known, and they came out of the wood work. Unfortunately, now it seems that some of what others have said is being attributed to me, just like someone who starts a "riot." ;->
With all that said, I am sorry. Again, one _could_ make the case that "I started the riot." So I think at this point -- especially the "Vote for CentOS," I think it's gone too far. And as much as I hope people could not go to the "deep ends" on each side, nothing I'm going to say is even going to be taken positive. So I think I just need to not even bother.
[ BTW, as a side note, I'm also sorry I engaged Les on the "GPL debate," which was 0% technical, and another distraction that I shouldn't have entertained. ]
And again, I appreciate the technical insights you have contributed to some of the threads. I don't want you to get only one signal or have you leave the list over this, but if we could leave the never-ending threads about the same subject out, the list would become a joy again.
Agreed. Although I beg people not to make things about Red Hat.
And I'm not only asking you, I'd prefer if everyone could try to not put more oil onto the fire, even when you don't agree. We know each others opinions now, we don't have to iterate over it again and again.
Agreed. I'll try to lead by example and just not respond. So far, I've been the opposite type of example.