Let me say up front that I'm not addressing any one person in particular, but only the ideas listed in the quoted message.
When ever Monopoly, proprietary forces dominate the world a FLOSS
A little misnomer here. Proprietary means something that is owned. In that sense, linux is proprietary - it is owned by Linus Torvalds (no, really). The use of the term proprietary to mean closed source by everyone (including RMS) is wrong.
Just your tidbid of info for today :)
Alls a Big loop sir.
ok, I don't really like being called sir, but there are things I like less.
And the opposite of 'I' is not 'You'. But... 'WE'.
WE encompasses I. It's actually "Not I" as any boolean mathematician or psychologist will tell you ;)
The List is not so old as to distinguish newbies with ,masters, and
It's over 5 years old, and the group a little older. And as far as mastery goes, that takes initiative and self motivation, not age.
even if we want to what would be the methodology to distinguish and classify different users, on what basis??? aren't we all still on the edge of the learning cure.
those who follow the rules and those who don't.
Any one who feels he/shes at the acme of the learning curve doesn't need this list.
but does the list/group need him/her?
Does Low mail and LUG meet turnout suggest that the so called
I believe that people who know a lot refrain from answering trivial questions for one of two reasons - they've already been answered before - someone with a lesser amount of knowledge can answer it
People who don't know a lot refrain from answering mails for one of three reasons - they feel someone who knows more should answer it - they're not sure if their answer is correct - they have only come to the list to get answers and not to give them
So, the only mails you get on the list are from people who want help for seemingly unique problems. They post mails asking for URGENT HELP. They believe it their right to get immediate support because they have done the list members the biggest favour by becoming linux users. They don't even have the decency to format their mails in an easy to read manner.
I for one will not reply to these mails, but then I don't speak for the group. Each of you are welcome to respond in your own way.
As for lug meets, I don't know what the situation is now. In the past the meets would involve one tech talk and a lot of socialising. The last few meets that I attended were just like lectures, and while many are eager to attend lectures, no one is willing to give them. The socialising session didn't last very long either.
Being a linux user's group is not so much listening to lectures - you can do that by signing up for a class. It's about being a bunch of buddies with a common interest, and most importantly, a _willingness_ to share the brightest or stupidest ideas that you have without fear that someone will laugh, or reservation that someone will steal it.
Regrettably, all my recent posts to this list have been grouchy old man rants. Tolerance I still have. Hair I'm losing fast.