So Long, SuSE, We Hardly Knew Ye!

[ded]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 03:35:23PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 07:39:19PM +0000, ded wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 12:30:37PM -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> > > 1.) Dump Gnome, get with the KDE crowd with both feet. Make friends
> > > there while they still feel alienated and betrayed.  Today. A month from
> > > now will be too late after M$ starts giving away the swag. That's what I
> > > would do, if I was in M$ shoes. The hairs on the back of my neck sez so,
> > > Mathew. You can take them to the bank. Yeah, dig out my old resume. See
> > > if it ain't so.
> > 
> > As a gnome contributor I bit my tongue on the Fefora list today
> > listening to you slam Gnome...after this particular rambling post
> > on this list, here...take this quarter and buy some more crack or
> > whatever the **** you're on nad just piss off the rest of the night ok...
> > As for your old time resume, google didn't turn up diddly squat...
> 
> WTF? A fellow can't express his opinion of GNOME? If he'd said "Dump
> KDE, get with the GNOME crowd with both feet" would you have teed off
> like this?  The KDE/GNOME religious war was already tedious in 2000;
> and it was never as entertaining or amusing as the vi/emacs skirmishes
> that periodically break out.
> 
> And why exactly piss and moan on *this* list when you likely would
> have found a more sympathetic audience on the Fedora list? More to the
> point, why make it personal? Ric can defend himself, but I fail to see
> how anything he said attacked you personally. If he'd said "You're a
> booger-eating, pimply-faced monad," I could understand, but all he said
> was, in so many words, "I don't like GNOME."
> 
> One final thought. It's pretty much chicken shit to make a personal attack
> while hiding behind an email address "my.accountnow at ntlworld.com." The next
> time you decide to flame somebody, cowboy up, grow a pair, and put your name
> on it.
> 
> Kurt

Kurt,
Apparently my last post, which was an apology. hastn't made it to the
list as yet.

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