The rise and fall of Limux

Posted Nov 10, 2017 16:38 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: The rise and fall of Limux by smoogen
Parent article: The rise and fall of Limux

While tribalism is a thing, I don't see it as a reason to not make these arguments at your local government meetings (assuming you attend).

The rise and fall of Limux

Posted Nov 10, 2017 17:31 UTC (Fri) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] (1 responses)

I believe you think I am arguing with you about something I am not. I never said not to make those arguments. I said that you need to understand that the arguments may not work without extra work because tribalism and other factors can be a default decision path.

The rise and fall of Limux

Posted Nov 26, 2017 4:06 UTC (Sun) by linuxrocks123 (subscriber, #34648) [Link]

Dude ... no. The people running governmental organizations don't have the emotional maturity of 2 year olds, with the obvious exception of the current US president.

UT Texas and Texas A&M used to have a huge football rivalry. It didn't stop their researchers from collaborating, because normal people are able to see fun rivalries like that for what they are: just for fun.

Neighboring cities are used to cooperating with each other on public transit and many other things. Why would they see software any differently?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlibrary_loan