On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Frank Tanner III wrote:
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 13:15 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Frank Tanner III wrote:
It's no wonder that computer novices want nothing to do with Linux.
Maybe Linux wants nothing to do with obnoxious people ?
PS How you communicate influences how you are being perceived, and how you are being perceived incluences how people respond. But if you want to believe everybody who uses CentOS dislikes you, go ahead, nobody is stopping you.
Unless you want to believe they are. That's fine too. :)
It's a well known "fact" amongst the general public that the Linux "evangelists" are a rude flaming bunch. There are hundreds of news articles stating such. An THIS is what the public in general bases their attitudes with regards to the community as a whole on.
I communicated clearly and concisely. I didn't say ONE negative thing until I got jumped on; or didn't you actually read the thread.
I agree your initial mail did not say ONE negative thing. But it was not exactly clear and concise. It failed to reveal any information except that you wrote a firewall document.
What's more you send it to a list where the majority did not know you, nor your document. That's ok though, nobody is blaming you for that either. IF you think that was a worthwhile thing to do, that's your choice.
But as soon as people ask you what the document is abouwhich is the logical next step if you send a mail to a list that is uninformed), or a location where you could put it, you started flaming people as if they wanted to correct you. As if you had to defend yourself.
And I think that is exactly what enflamed the whole situation.
Now that is of course my description of what happened, but I guess I'm not objective as I have been jumping on you as all these other "evangelists" on this list. In fact, I really think they are out to get you. Run, Forest, Run !
Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]