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RE: Sandals and ponytail set cramp Linux (ZDNet)RE: Sandals and ponytail set cramp Linux (ZDNet)Posted Mar 28, 2006 15:58 UTC (Tue) by jimwelch (guest, #178)Parent article: Sandals and ponytail set cramp Linux (ZDNet)
I am afraid both sides of the coin, show disdain for the other side of the coin.
When I see someone in coat and tie, I ALWAYS think one word first: ENRON and then I calm down and try not to judge someone by their choice of clothing.
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RE: Sandals and ponytail set cramp Linux (ZDNet) Posted Mar 28, 2006 17:29 UTC (Tue) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] Actually I think you may have a point there.. there have been some people who come to the community looking like Enronites and tried to learn how to do business with them.. I have seen the bloodbath.. it wasnt pretty.
What I am meaning is that we each have our 'societal norms', and our disrespect for those with coats, ties gets in our way as much as some of their disrespect for long hair and sandles. At least we humans have given up on peeing around our territories (well most of us have).
RE: Sandals and ponytail set cramp Linux (ZDNet) Posted Mar 28, 2006 23:46 UTC (Tue) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link] Yes, cooperation between different groups with different goals which happen to have a point of intersection is where the power of FL/OSS really lies.
But it is important to note that FL/OSS started with the pony tails and sandles crowd. Thirty years of UNIX(tm) in-fighting makes it pretty clear that the suit and tie crowd would never have come up with such a method of software development. Actually, they have come up with the idea. Many times. It's just that the back-stabbing always started up before a finished product came out. (One needs to look no further back than SCO/IBM/Monterey. All parties involved have been stabbed at least once.)
The suits need the sandles to keep them in line. And I don't know about you, but I think a suit looks oh so much better without a big blood stain on the back.
> At least we humans have given up on peeing around our territories (well most of us have).
Now smoogen, couldn't you have refrained from that nasty barb regarding Sun Microsystems? Their potty training has improved notably over the last year. ;-)
ROFL! Posted Mar 29, 2006 3:55 UTC (Wed) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link] > a suit looks oh so much better without a big blood stain on the back.ROFL!
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