And doing a good job of it too, I must say. I only thought of it because I had to write a Title. Anyway, this is the best quote I’ve seen this week:
When did ANYONE with a clue listen to Microsoft? “Linux costs you more money”, “Linux has more security problems” and “IE doesn’t have any security holes which we can’t fix and do the second we know about them if you have a fucking time machine!” seems to be all they can say lately.
I’m sick of Bill and his lies, who gives a fuck if he says Longhorn will stop teenage pregnancy, cure world hunger and get every geek laid within a week of buying it. He talks so much crap now (and so do most people who have spin doctors sitting up their ass all day) that we may as well go listen to the talking clock for a bit and at least get some truth even if it’s useless 10 seconds later.
Thanks for the laugh, Turn-X Alphonse
Now, from funny to slightly sad. Peter don’t get so down about Gentoo. Remember the reason you got into developing. If you forget, come talk to me, I’ll remind you. For those not in the know, Peter and I met at LWE 1 (not the first LWE ever, but the first LWE that Gentoo was ever at) in NY. There was Peter helping us all out in the booth, talking to other users, hanging out with us, and above all, being cool. And so he and I started talking a bit about him becoming a Gentoo Developer, because he was (and still is!) interested in better Gentoo/IPv6 support and integration. And so I asked him to file some bugs about it with some fixes and voila not a month later (coz Peter was delaying, not me :P) we had latexer at gentoo, previously a paragon of #gentoo netizenry.
Now Peter, you talk of a vocal minority. Here’s the thing — their bark is a lot worse than their bite. Besides which, I think in a forum where you’re trying to communicate things to people of intelligence, they will filter out the wheat from the chaff, as it were. Through all the ups and downs of Gentoo since I joined (and what you and I have both been through), I’ve learned this: ignore the detractors. Invariably, they just seem to have nothing better to do.
Not to get off on a rant of my own either, but that is seriously the case. Remember the fork? All they did was talk about how they were going to be different from Gentoo, how they were not Gentoo, how they were not Gentoo devs, how badly Gentoo did this, that or the other, and how Gentoo sucked at this, that or the other and how they wouldn’t. With all that talk, what did they actually do? I’m not dissing on those people personally, but the zynot folks had a huge talent pool, and a huge level of community support from their moment of inception. They were capable of achieving great things. They squandered their chances by not focusing on making their achievements great, and instead focusing on being NotGentoo.
Apologies to any readers who might have taken offense at any of that, but get over it, it’s the truth.
The sad truth of human nature is that if you can’t use a tool (or be bothered about learning how to use it properly), you tend to blame the tool. I think of SpankY when I conclude : the members of the vocal minority are the tools.