Questions from a Linux user considering a Macbook

[E K]

--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Marc Lanctot <lanctot-yfeSBMgouQgsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: Marc Lanctot <lanctot-yfeSBMgouQgsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Questions from a Linux user considering a Macbook
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Received: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 1:44 PM
> E K wrote:
> > Too late and typical of a windows/Mac user to be of
> interest. Since you didn't say anything that we
> don't already know, the information content of your
> email is nil hence not helpful.
> > 
> > We already know that your time is more worth than the
> machoness .... We also know that you don't know that you
> can have fully supported pre-installed Linux or get it
> installed for you.
> > 
> 
> First of all: that was unnecessarily harsh. This list gets
> lots of posts per day.. there are times I get busy and
> can't keep up for a week or two and I have to spend an
> hour or two just going through everything I missed. It'd
> be a shame if I felt less inclined to follow up on something
> just because I'd get flamed for being "late".
> 
> Secondly, he started his post with a warning that it was
> mostly a summary.
> 
> Thirdly, it /actually was helpful/, to me at least. Nobody
> had mentioned the extended warranty and with his experience
> with laptops that info is quite valuable.. and nobody had
> mentioned tunneling X through ssh, or implied having used
> fink as much as he did.
> 
> So, can we all be friends? Thanks.
> 

Agreed and my appologies. I had a frastrating day yesterday dealing with that "machoism" reasoning in relation to open source (which is my work) here at work yesterday. It is frustrating particularly because it came from someone who has political capital with management.

EK


> Marc
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