Daniel de Kok spake the following on 8/4/2006 6:38 AM: > On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 06:12 -0700, Frank Tanner III wrote: >> 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. > > You have to keep in mind that support from lists like this one are > voluntary in nature. So, it only seems decent to try to get the > etiquette of the list, and (although it does not apply here) research a > problem before posting questions to the list. > > IMHO calling Linux community members a "rude flaming bunch" is highly > inappropriate. The community built a free operating system, and provides > free support. If people need hand holding or extensive support they can > get a support contract from a prominent North-American Linux vendor, or > one of the other venues that provides Linux support. > > -- Daniel I have seen some fair amount of handholding on this list and also the CentOS list. Can we just say that since it is Friday, and everybody has had a tough week, that maybe we could just go on and let it die quietly! -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!