NYCPHP Meetup

[Jon Britton]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 03:51:40PM -0400, Adam wrote:
> That's the LAMP way!
> 
> Probably one of the main reasons MS still has a large advantage in the
> server market is because of the 'elite' attitude of many Linux types.

I, and the DoJ, would disagree.  Apparantly, so would Netcraft :)

> If you don't see it how I see it, your obviously wrong and a retard and
> don't deserve a computer! Lol

I haven't seen this attitude from as many people as I've heard it
speculated upon by outsiders.  I will say the average free/open 
software advocate is infinitely more pleasant than the average ISP or 
Telco rep.

It's really not fair to judge the entire group based on one alleged
overreaction.  Maybe the guy's puppy was just run over, maybe the email
he received was rude, maybe it was misinterpreted...we don't know.
However, persons are persons, and I've seen every org from Dell to
BlackBerry to Microsoft to OpenBSD have some truly obnoxious
individuals firing off unnecessarily.

So, let's judge people individually, and not by the mass stereotype.  
Unless they use M4, in which case they're just creepy and sinister.


- Jon