RFC: Proposed comment policy change

Posted Nov 22, 2004 16:45 UTC (Mon) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222)
Parent article: RFC: Proposed comment policy change

I work in a Windows-only shop, and I am in a bad position to change careers. The few minutes a day I have to participate in a discussion about Linux (which I use at home,) would be sad to lose, especially in an environment where most of the participants are eloquent and knowledgeable.

However, I am paying monthly bills for just about everything under the sun these dsys, including (sadly) television, which is of little or no interest to me, but which my significant other wants access to.

Unfortunately, if you put this decision into effect, I will lose the ability to say my piece in participation with such people as yourselves, and will not likely participate by reading the service, since I would be unable to express my support (or concern) about issues that pertain to the Linux community in such a respectable forum.

In effect, Linux is a hobby to me. It would be nice if it were more than that, but this is a Microsoft monopoly world, and there's very lttile I can do about it beyond being something of a cheerleader squad member. $60/year is a little over 1 month of television, 4 bottles of vitally-needed drugs, a pair of shoes or two, a week's worth of food, and (with reduced fare) less than 2 months' commute on what is likely to become a really low-quality public transportation service, now that the Republicans have managed to monopolize our political system.

So if I can no longer express my opinion in this forum without paying for it, so be it. It's a sad day, but what can I do?

In closing, I just want to thank the fool who posted that comment the other day. I suspect I know what you were trying to do, because I've been around a lot of years, and I've seen this kind of trick before. I hope you got what you wanted out of it, and that you will enjoy sleeping in the bed you are making for yourself.