For the love of Tuxie (was: Re: [NCLUG] Installfest anyone?)

[Chad Perrin]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:04:04PM -0600, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> > Umm . . . when did I say anything to the effect that we shouldn't put the
> 
> I think what Jim was trying to convey, poorly due to having gotten up at
> the undogly hour of 5am that morning, was that it would be totally
> appropriate to have a Tux on the NCLUG shirt.  Obviously, we probably want
> to have the NCLUG on it as it is the group shirt.

That's not exactly the impression that I got, but I could buy that.


> 
> I understand and agree with the sentiment that NCLUG is about the people
> and the presentations.  However, the thing that brings us together is, no
> doubt, Linux.  It may not be why *YOU* attend, but it is what has kept us
> meeting regularly for over a decade and is the thread behind the
> presentations.

Am I attending the wrong meetings, then?


> 
> That said, I think comparing Linux to MSN we can do without -- it just
> really don't serve a purpose.  I realize that that is not what you
> literally said, but I'm sure you could understand that there is some
> sensitivity among Linux folk to the invocation of the MS name and their
> network.  I don't know what you were (consciously or unconsciously) trying
> to do there, but I give you the benefit of the doubt.  But I have
> experienced BSD people who have some pretty hard feelings about Linux, like
> it's the "Microsoft of Unix".

I didn't say *anything* like that.  I said, literally (though not in so
many words), that wearing a shirt advertising Linux would be for me
roughly as appropriate as wearing a shirt advertising something like MSN,
since I basically use neither.  That's all.


> 
> I believe we do *NOT* need anything even close to that sort of sentiment
> here, pointed towards or away from Linux.  It just serves no useful
> purpose, and in most cases is just a troll anyway.  To quote Buckaroo
> Banzai, "Don't be mean."

You said above that you don't think that's what I was trying to say, so
please stop belaboring the nonexistent point.

-- 
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
W. Somerset Maugham: "The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for
wit."
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