From: mayer@sono.uucp (Ron Mayer) Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Alpha release Linux/GNU/X unix clone on CDROM for PC's Date: 2 Dec 1992 21:33:21 GMT
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dirrected to alt.flame, comp.os.linux, and gnu.misc.discuss.
In a flame war to comp.unix.wizards, etc.
messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) <1992Nov26.082346.16338@netcom.com> says:
>mack23@avalon.eecs.nwu.edu (Chris Walsh) writes:
>>[Tony Porczyk says:]
>>>
>>>- ever heard of thousands of people making a living, providing for their
>>> families and supporting the economy thanks to Bill Gates?
This is totally irrelivant. There is no reason to believe that these
people would not be just as productive, and providing for their
families just as well, if it were not for Microsoft. Some could argue
that they would be even better off if Gates were not skimming the
profits off their software; however neither of us knows enough about
the situation to know whether or not whether or not Gates uses his
wealth more efficiently to further the interests of his employees
or to further his own interests.
>>> Show me where that happened thanks to Richard Stallman or Linus
>>> Torvalds. But then, I just noticed the extension of your email
>>> address. Sorry for wasting the bandwith.
Waste it somewhere else next time. The extension of his email address
proves nothing about the quality of Linux, Microsoft, Stallman, or
anything else. Enough people's productivity has been increassed by
Stallman's work to contradict your example anyway.
>>[Chris wrote a sarcastic comment on Tony's flame]
>You are such a dickhead, it is simply unbelievable. Where do you moron
>keep your head all day - between your legs? Well, thank you for speaking
>up against me. That was the best argument I could possibly get. And, yes,
>of course it came from .edu. Nowehere else do we have cretins like you
>with access to public media.
Gee. This sure has a lot to do with linux, comp.unix.wizards, etc.
Perhaps you should go back to an .edu yourself and learn something
about what you're talking about before crossposting flame wars to the
entire net.
If you really have a need to waste everyone's time with
ranting flames, please keep them off of comp.unix.wizards and try
using email in the future. At least crosspost to alt.flame so
people's kill files can handle it.
Ron Mayer
mayer@acuson.com