Embrace the Penguin

csappenfield at kc.rr.com csappenfield at kc.rr.com
Tue May 22 08:11:16 CDT 2007


I wasn't "pooh-pooh[ing]" your fledgling project, I was pointing out 
that it isn't unreasonable to have the reaction that you describe as 
unthinking.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Herrmann <kclug at itdepends.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 8:11 am
Subject: Re: Embrace the Penguin
To: kclug <kclug at kclug.org>

> This is open source.  We're not going to make anyone sing.  We're 
> also 
> not going to make anyone contribute to this song.  We won't make 
> anyone 
> even listen to it when it's done.  This will be a fun song, 
> hopefully a 
> funny, yet educational, song.  If anything, Windows is a cult, 
> where 
> people have been brainwashed in to believing that this is the one 
> right 
> way to compute.  Oo, that might be a line in the song.  Thanks for 
> the 
> inspiration.  Even in your attempt to pooh-pooh our fledgling 
> project, 
> you have contributed.
> 
> csappenfield at kc.rr.com wrote:
> > I consider "corporate songs", like IBM used to make its 
> employees 
> > learn, definitely cultish.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Jim Herrmann <kclug at itdepends.com>
> > Date: Monday, May 21, 2007 11:40 pm
> > Subject: Re: Embrace the Penguin
> > To: kclug <kclug at kclug.org>
> >
> >   
> >> No.  Not at all.  That's like saying if I write a love song, 
> that 
> >> love 
> >> is like a religion.  Don't you think?  Please do, before you 
speak.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Jim
> >>
> >> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >>     
> >>> These kinda things lead others to liken OSS to a religion, 
> don't 
> >>>       
> >> you 
> >>     
> >>> think?
> >>>
> >>>       
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