Advocacy versus alientation (was Re: [ale] Re:)

[Barry Hawkins]

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Christopher Fowler wrote:
| I'm a Linux bigot and personally I would like to punish those who use
| Winbloze, IE, MS Office, and Outlook.
|
| Using Windoze is as bad as using AOL in my book.
| I hate it when people send me word documents especially ones that can be
| edited.
Christopher,
~    Since email is such a flat mode of communication, I am not sure if
you are joking or serious.  If you are serious, then I take it you must
be a Linux bigot at the expense of not being a Linux advocate.

~    Alienating others because they are not in our little minority (and
we are still quite the minority) is certainly no way to get more people
to try and hopefully use a GNU/Linux-based operating system.  In fact, a
policy of "punishing" people for their choice of operating system is
only going to have the opposite effect.

~    I think if we were all honest with ourselves, there was a time not
too long ago where we, too, were more than happy to be rocking along
with Outlook Express and IE.  God knows my 28.8 modem suffered at the
hands of many a 14MB IE upgrade.

Sincerely,
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Barry Hawkins
All Things Computed
site: www.alltc.com
weblog: www.yepthatsme.com

Registered Linux User #368650
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