Linux and After

[Scott Kane]

From: "Peter Alcibiades" <palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk>

> It would be better not to indulge in any more personal attacks on people, 
> the  state of their software, their color sense, or attack the categories 
> you
> think they belong to.  This is where we came in, and it led to a mess.  It 
> is completely unhelpful.
>
> What would be very helpful is if Rev felt able to give an update of some 
> sort on how the Linux stuff is progressing.  This would also be more on 
> topic.

Ya know, Peter.  You are absolutely right in the normal course of things and 
I would completelty agree with you.  However - my observations stand. 
Everybody is a newb somewhere sometime (as I have been to this community). 
Questions need asking and people try to help - it's about community and this 
list has a great foundation on that.  But when some guy takes (demands) help 
and gets it then turns around and acts like a complete ass then he has 
literally set himself up as fair game.  He never even had the guts to profer 
a simple apology.  He just carried on as if it were his own personal right 
to do as he pleases when he pleases whereever he pleases.  If that means 
slandering people - he's happy to do that.  I'm probably a member of more 
programming related forums than most for various reasons and I'd have to say 
this guy has succeeded in putting himself right up their in my personal top 
5 of people who deserve no assistance what so ever.  I personally wish he'd 
take a long walk - off a rather short cliff.  I have no compassion for him. 
That is not my doing - it is his.  BTW - stating newb color choices is very 
helpful.  Any person starting out can take from this that this choice of 
color scheme is probably not wise.  HIG's exist for a reason.  Study of 
HIG's is every bit as important as the study of raw code.  It's highly 
relevant.


Scott Kane
Moderator comp.software.shareware.*