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On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 22:36 -0500, Michael Tindal wrote: |
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> Jonathan Smith wrote: |
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> > M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: |
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> > |
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> >>>I'm not a developer ... and I'm not in California ... but I am a Gentoo |
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> >>>bigot and I'm certainly willing to help out ... as are most Gentoo |
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> >>>users/developers. |
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> >>>[snip] |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > I know that I can't speak for all the developers, but I for one am |
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> > slightly offended by being called a "Gentoo bigot". I work on Gentoo |
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> > because I love doing it, and I believe it helps people, but if those |
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> > people use something else (another distro, *BSD, Solaris, OSX, even |
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> > Windows) and it works for _them_, then so be it... |
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> > |
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> > As for the rest of your email, that information is readily available |
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> > from the Gentoo Documentation Project, and in a much more readable and |
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> > detailed format. |
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> > |
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> > -smithj |
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> It is rather offensive to myself as well, for the reasons detailed |
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> above. Please keep such comments to yourself and try to be less |
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> condescending in your responses in a public forum. |
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And I am slightly offended by both of you, as he clearly was saying that |
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_he_ is a Gentoo bigot. Please reread something 3 or 4 times before |
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taking offence (and then sleep on it before replying). |
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Martin Schlemmer |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer |
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Cape Town, South Africa |
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