On Wednesday 02 February 2005 19:02, svaksh wrote:

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 17:32:43 +0500, sherlock@vsnl.com

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FOSS community is about independence and effort to understand and excell in computing. If people are happy behind the gates so be it. If somone feels differently go ahead and do the needful nobody's stopping u.

rgds jtd

Unfortunately, you continue to miss the point of both the articles... :(

Absolutely not.

Any product (free or otherwise) is used by *all* (incl non-geeks) but if the FOSS community wishes to be the only consumer of its creation, then so be it. List members usually help others *freely* minus prejudice, thereby sharing knowledge.

Repeating one self ad infinitum is not sharing knowledge it is drudgery, which prevents the knowledgeable from doing other more important tasks like writing code, debugging, writing manuals, liasing with clueless service providers etc. The point here is that the guys who migrate from windose know how to search the web for music and antivirus stuff and updates galore, but do not know how to search for info about the simplest of things under linux. My clobbered mind fails to see the logic. Nor do they have netiqette. Which doubles up everybody's work of filtering manually messages with no subject, scrolling thru entire top posted mails etc.

If one does not have either the time or patience for 'so-called' stupid questions by newbies, feel free to delete the msg or unsubscribe. They are not forcing anyone to help so it certainly does not justify rudeness. Silence helps, imho ;) --

Be happy that posters without netiquette are not booted out. It's not the dumb questions, it's the lack of effort in using easily and readily available information first. It's a lot easier to google than post and wait and then read ten mails abt the solution. And u will notice that inspite of a less than flowery reception to such mails there is very rarely a personal attack on anyone. So imnho silence is very bad. Be happy that posters without netiquette are not booted out for consuming bandwidth, disk space, and other peoples' time. And posting to a mailing list is like singing in a bus. It forces everyone to listen,( but not to rants like this one - the OT in the subject line will tell ur filter to send it to /dev/null.)

rgds jtd