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Mark Shuttleworth at LinuxTag

Mark Shuttleworth at LinuxTag

Posted Jun 22, 2010 13:26 UTC (Tue) by nye (guest, #51576)
In reply to: Mark Shuttleworth at LinuxTag by jschrod
Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth at LinuxTag

>And sadly, there are enough folks like him in our community.

Sadly, I don't believe there are.

Jef's unwillingness to drink the Kool-Aid, combined with an unusual level of honesty and accuracy, is highly appreciated.

If that attitude were more prevalent, I feel Free Software would seem more appealing to a wider number of users because the community would demonstrate a lesser degree of obviously ludicrous self-delusion.


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Mark Shuttleworth at LinuxTag

Posted Jun 25, 2010 18:30 UTC (Fri) by deepfire (subscriber, #26138) [Link]

> Jef's unwillingness to drink the Kool-Aid, combined with an unusual level of honesty and accuracy, is highly appreciated.

Absolutely.

It's always heartening to see people straying off the local maximum chase, that is universal pleasantness, and into some soul searching and inconvenient question asking.

Periods of peaceful and undisturbed focus are important, but so are periods of wider perspective and introspection.

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