<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Jeff Lightner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jlightner@water.com">jlightner@water.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Please…</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">If people are more turned off by “inane”
comments of some proponents than they are by the actions of Microsloth then it
says more about their own mindsets than it does about us.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Personally I find this line or argument
close to those for certain political or religious views. Either you buy
it or you don’t and attempting to force others to see it your way is
itself a form of zealotry in my not so humble opinion. “Adults”
do play and word play is certain a form of play. Those who decry
such play try to imply those of us who engage in it are “children”.
They are themselves guilty of the same attempt to cast aspersions on opposing
views as the ones that seem to offend them. As a “adult”
I’m quite willing to enjoy puns, irony, alliteration and other forms of
word play and yes even if some without a sense of humor are “turned off”
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>It's not that I don't enjoy it. I love word play, and I engage in it a lot (you should hear the groans from those in the know). I think that a forum, where we INVITE people to come ask questions about this new thing for them should make an effort to not be so free in doing so if we really want to see Linux succeed. And I certainly find Microsoft's actions to be in large part questionable. I'm just saying this some of our behavior makes selling this to new folks harder than it needs to be at times. We already have the deck a bit stacked against us, we don't need to be making matters worse.<br>
<br>The video is laughable. It's begging for parodies, and that should absolutely happen, and knowing the community, it will happen. Bully. That's appropriate. <br><br>Changing Microsoft to some other name, or Windows, or Vista at every possible moment is not, because sometimes we have to explain what we mean to people not in the know. Or, they stop paying attention. That's not helping us.<br>
<br>Brian<br></div></div>