On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > If his enthusiasm sometimes causes him to make incorrect statements, then > feel free to correct him, just like we correct everyone else. I have. Others have as well, apparently to no effect. To be clear, I have nothing against passion, even passion for old/lightweight hardware. We *need* passionate people. What I think is unhealthy (for the person and the profession) It is when passion becomes so one-sided that the person is unable to understand or even acknowledge that there are a *lot* of different use cases, requirements, hardware, preferences, etc. out there. As another list member pointed out - it's no use dismissing the whole Parallela project just because it ships with Ubuntu by default. While I do focus on server-side linux implementations, I do try and keep a broader view of other areas of linux usage as well: desktop, embedded, etc. I recognize, though that we all have blind spots - myself very much included, and it's in all of our best interests to try and minimize those blind spots. So to that end, I'm willing to have an honest, open-handed, respectful conversation about this. Happy Monday, all! -Erik -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130610/cd6bc684/attachment.html>