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From: karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
Message-ID: <678@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 23:43:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  8 23:43:46 1987
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Summary: Let's all treat each other with dignity and respect.
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In article <3470@islenet.UUCP>, richard@islenet.UUCP (Richard Foulk) writes:
> In article <8520@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> > ...A less charitable view of this is that Stallman couldn't write a small
> > program to save his life.  Unfortunately, this is a common maladay nowadays.

> Leave it to someone who's been using small, out-dated equipment for
> years now to be so publicly unkind.

> How seemingly intelligent people can find the need to belittle
> others publicly, without provocation, is a mystery.

> But to attack someone who writes software and distributes it free of
> charge, to attack them because they don't cater to your particular
> obsolete machinery is amazingly selfish and stupid.

You chastise Henry Spencer for belittling others publicly but then you use 
this kind of inflammatory rhetoric to belittle him, publicly, in exactly the 
same manner you accuse him of doing, calling him "seemingly intelligent" and 
"amazingly selfish and stupid."  I thought his posting was pretty funny, and 
it almost certainly had a far less scabrous and more harmless intent than your 
rather vitriolic followup.

If everyone would work at using less confrontational language in their 
postings, I'd at least get a lot more of the things out of usenet that I'm
looking for, spending my time on usenet more efficiently as well.  Presumably
others would also find this to be true.
-- 
...!soma!uhnix1!sugar!karl    "Life, don't talk to me about life." - Marvin TPA