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On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 19:51:36 +0100 |
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"Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> On Montag, 31. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> > Hi folks, |
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> > I'd just want to let you know there's an petition to NV on |
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> > opening their driver code (or at least specs) to the free world: |
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> > * http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/ |
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> no, 'online petitions' are a worthless waste of time. They are like a fart in |
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> the wind - just worse. They are like farting and then tell everybody that you |
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> have farted. You are just angry that your beloved, but maybe crappy hardware |
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> does not work with a driver that is pretty old by now. |
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Not true. It is true that a petition by itself will not do anything, |
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but it serves another purposes. Any joining effort demonstrates that |
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people actually care about a problem. And, by the way, if you fart, |
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the less you can do is to be honest, and not blame anyone else while |
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you are the only guilty. |
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This is not about old or new hardware, this is about getting a free |
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driver, and that, as linux users, is something that would benefit |
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everyone in this list. You don't seem to understand what this is |
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about at all. |
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> > Please sign the petition and spread around this link. |
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> Please don't spam. |
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We could argue if this topic is valid for the list or not, that is |
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debatable, but everything you wrote above this last sentence is pure |
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spam. Far more spammy than the post of the original poster. And, in |
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turn, you generated a need for additional responses, like the one from |
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Neil Walker and this one that I am writing right now. |
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Thing that could have been avoided if you just posted something in |
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the lines of "Isn't this offtopic?", and nothing more. |
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Regards. |
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Jesús Guerrero <i92guboj@×××××.es> |
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