[Glastonbury] tomorrow's meeting

[Sean Miller]

maurice wrote:

>I was not able to make it tonight. As a newbie, perhaps as well. And that 
>makes me feel sad.
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Why?

>But my original feelings persist. You come across as a whole, as a bunch of 
>elitist techies who really don't want linux to become the home of the 
>majority. It would become "too common" for goodness sake. Certainly you are 
>unable to explain simple questions with simple, easy to understand responses. 
>Or you subliminally refuse to do so. Or you're not bright enough. And I was 
>warned about this before I began.
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Maurice -- can we stop here and ask why you are making such allegations? 
"You're not bright enough"... that is quite unfair. I think that if you 
posted to say "sorry, I don't understand" to a reply to a query most, if 
not all, of this list would try to re-word and help. It is wrong to 
berate a list "en-masse" like this...

There are many different characters on this list, and that is great 
because that is what community is about. You have folks who know things 
in detail, and others who don't - you have folks who are great at 
communicating and others who may not be... but please don't berate us 
all because you don't like certain posts. Simply say that you need 
something spelt out in layman's terms and I'm sure it will be done.

>Suffice it to say, I've found easy answers to simple questions elsewhere.   
>I've not had to go so far as MP3 Michael of the linspire setup but you can 
>understand why he might succeed. Linux for him is something that should 
>perform, applications that should run without the gobbledegook even though 
>there is a price to pay.
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Month-on-month the Linux "novice experience" becomes better and better - 
and I think that it will not be long before it catches Windows... give 
it time.  The genre is evolving from something very much business/tech 
related to something which can also appeal to the home user who doesn't 
have time to learn. But "Rome wasn't built in a day"...

>So I have to say to those who still want to write printer and camera drivers 
>from scratch in machine code (must have to be masochists, I guess) or 
>assembler or C++ or whatever, goodbye.
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If you are going to be insulting then I will not be sorry to see you go, 
Maurice, though it will be with a heavy heart.  It is a shame that you 
could not see what LUGOG is about... some threads may be overly 
technical, but most members are not.  Please consider coming to a group 
meeting -- I think you'd find that these demons that you believe we all 
are actually turn out to be quite nice people :-)

Sean