On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 cbidler at innominatus.com wrote: > > > > Just a reminder: > > > > There are probably at least some people on this list for whom the > > technical quality of the solution is NOT the only determiner, as your > > post suggests. > > > > There are people who have deep ideological commitments to Free > > Software (Free as in Speech), that are not limited to trying to find > > one's boss the best widget. > > > > I am not going to comment on the rightness or wrongness of this, but if > > one wants to discuss this issue seriously, one should take into account > > all the factors. > > > > R > > So far as my original post in this thread (the long-winded rant) goes, I > would respond thus: > My project was theorizing a reason for the relatively higher > number of Unix/Linux "zealots" than Microsoft "zealots", taking as implied > the earlier poster's description of "zealotry" as dispeptic ranting > about how all the other team's product is unmitigated crap, especially when > using phrases such as Windoze, LookOut, Micro$oft, etc. > > If you draw a Venn diagram of > a) *nix "zealots", so defined; and > b) "people who have deep ideological commitments to Free Software" > I think you will find that I did group b) no disservice by leaving them > out of my analysis. > For which I'm sure many of them would thank you. -- Daniel Taylor dante at plethora.net