Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 09, 2002 01:40 PM
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The article was about one of the many companies and people who showed determination and innovation in the crisis in NYC and across the country. I was there working the whole time and no one showed anything less than determination and courage.
I agree with you, that's why I wrote the comment defending your company that you are responding to. Perhaps you should reread it, as you definitely are misunderstanding my post.
How dare you disparage the admins and techs who use Windows like that? How DARE you? Did they work any less hard? Do you really believe that someone is a bad person because they use a particlar operating system? Do they give less to charity? Spend less time with their families?
Did they work any less hard? I never said that. I agree that everyone at your company must have worked very hard after that day. It was shocking and motivating to all of us. The flags that popped up outside houses, businesses and cars are a testament to that.
Insult others who worked just as hard? Never. The last comment, the last sentence of my post, after defending your company is a nudge, nudge, to your fine workers who want to now learn Linux, to give something back to the community (of Linux users, a general comment, not NYC-ie: 9/11).
Reread the last sentence. It was a comment on Windows admins and techs in general, not specific to your organization. It is an observation that I have made in the marketplace. Being surrounded by Windows admins and techs, perhaps you don't see it, or perhaps as I suspect, you work with a more giving group of people (and hence it is not present within your organization), but if you are honest with yourself, and us, you will admit that on average, Linux users believe in not only using the operating system, but in the open give and take, the exchange of ideas and code, and in general "giving back" to the "community".
Again, the last sentence was meant as a "nudge, nudge" to not only share Linux within your company, but to share the idea of the practice of giving back to the (Linux, not general) community. Nothing more.
Do you really believe that someone is a bad person because they use a particular operating system? Never said that, don't believe that. It is the environment of Windows, where pay for help channels exist, and code is secret(and therefore users are precluded from altering code), versus help thy neighbor, rewrite the code to benefit you and your neighbor, help a neighbor with a free install, etc. Just the windows environment compared to the Linux environment. People are not the issue here, it is habits, and the design of the operating environment that dictates these differences. Due to the very nature of Linux, sharing is a basic necessity. This is not true of Windows, and is a reflection of the two different environments, not a reflection of the people in those environments.
Do they give less to charity? ? Give to charity? What does that have to do with anything? When talking about Linux, and giving back to the community, what does a charity donation have to do with anything? Spend less time with their families?
You are reading far too much into my post. Perhaps you have been attacked by some zealot, and are venting on me?
Next time, instead of defending your company, and EVERYONE IN IT, I'll keep my mouth shut. That'll teach me! There!!
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 09, 2002 01:40 PMThe article was about one of the many companies and people who showed determination and innovation in the crisis in NYC and across the country. I was there working the whole time and no one showed anything less than determination and courage.
I agree with you, that's why I wrote the comment defending your company that you are responding to. Perhaps you should reread it, as you definitely are misunderstanding my post.
How dare you disparage the admins and techs who use Windows like that? How DARE you? Did they work any less hard? Do you really believe that someone is a bad person because they use a particlar operating system? Do they give less to charity? Spend less time with their families?
Did they work any less hard? I never said that. I agree that everyone at your company must have worked very hard after that day. It was shocking and motivating to all of us. The flags that popped up outside houses, businesses and cars are a testament to that.
Insult others who worked just as hard? Never. The last comment, the last sentence of my post, after defending your company is a nudge, nudge, to your fine workers who want to now learn Linux, to give something back to the community (of Linux users, a general comment, not NYC-ie: 9/11).
Reread the last sentence. It was a comment on Windows admins and techs in general, not specific to your organization. It is an observation that I have made in the marketplace. Being surrounded by Windows admins and techs, perhaps you don't see it, or perhaps as I suspect, you work with a more giving group of people (and hence it is not present within your organization), but if you are honest with yourself, and us, you will admit that on average, Linux users believe in not only using the operating system, but in the open give and take, the exchange of ideas and code, and in general "giving back" to the "community".
Again, the last sentence was meant as a "nudge, nudge" to not only share Linux within your company, but to share the idea of the practice of giving back to the (Linux, not general) community. Nothing more.
Do you really believe that someone is a bad person because they use a particular operating system? Never said that, don't believe that. It is the environment of Windows, where pay for help channels exist, and code is secret(and therefore users are precluded from altering code), versus help thy neighbor, rewrite the code to benefit you and your neighbor, help a neighbor with a free install, etc. Just the windows environment compared to the Linux environment. People are not the issue here, it is habits, and the design of the operating environment that dictates these differences. Due to the very nature of Linux, sharing is a basic necessity. This is not true of Windows, and is a reflection of the two different environments, not a reflection of the people in those environments.
Do they give less to charity? ? Give to charity? What does that have to do with anything? When talking about Linux, and giving back to the community, what does a charity donation have to do with anything? Spend less time with their families?
You are reading far too much into my post. Perhaps you have been attacked by some zealot, and are venting on me?
Next time, instead of defending your company, and EVERYONE IN IT, I'll keep my mouth shut. That'll teach me! There!!
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