[olug] Unix Resource Needed

[dbw]

I hope that Dean Fife has not been permanently discouraged from participating 
on the OLUG mailing list.  I would agree with Brian Roberson’s concerns 
and flaming of Mr. Fife if and only if Dean Fife had posted an NT 
Administrator’s position available job where the work dealt with 
Micro$oft ONLY and was completely Linux/UNIX/*nix unrelated. :o)

I personally found myself more annoyed with John Dietz’s post in 
January- topic “Off Topic---MS Office 2000” which was a post that 
only had to do with Micro$oft product support.  

And I found myself further irritated by his response to David Walker’s 
suggestion to use Star Office where as John Dietz replied “Personally,
I don't like having to use Micro$oft products, but that is what 
makes the world go round right now because no one wants to learn 
Linux or UNIX. “

I doubt that anyone here does not already realize that Micro$oft 
has majority market share in the desktop computing environment.  
It would be ok if we were not patronized with obvious and condescending 
information as members of a Linux/UNIX/*nix mailing list.  It doesn’t 
matter “who’s got the fattest cow”, however, it does matter “who’s 
got the best quality beef”, right? (oops, the farm boy in me came 
out)

However, I would not suggest banning John Dietz or anything drastic 
like that.  I would not even suggest being rude to him; after all 
he might be a really great guy.  I might ask that he not submit Micro$oft 
posts and that he might be better to seek support through the appropriate 
Micro$oft mailing list or support forum(s).  Since Micro$oft is what 
everyone is using “sarcasm directed towards his statement” then one 
might think that there would be far more Micro$oft related mailing 
lists and support forums.

But I am not an officer of OLUG and I want to be clear that I think 
Brian and Jason do a great job with OLUG.  We are fortunate that 
we even have a Linux Group in our area.  There are not even such 
groups in a lot of areas and many other groups have not been nearly 
as successful as our OLUG.  

We all have days were we are not in the best of moods and things 
that we would otherwise overlook somehow irritate us to where we 
say things and respond in ways that we would not on almost any other 
occasion.  I personally took Brian’s comments considering that he 
may have been having an off day.  It is certainly not serious enough 
to discuss too much and hopefully not anywhere near serious enough 
to impact members of the group or recourse in membership declination.


Also, I appreciated when Brian mentioned that we are all entitled 
to our opinions.  This is the democratic (as in democracy) approach 
that allows us all to speak our minds.  If anyone remembers the days 
of IRC where as you would get banned from a chat room on just about 
any excuse, usually for expression, you can now appreciate a form 
that allows you to be open and speak freely.

My two cents worth... or worthless... you be the judge! :o)












At Wednesday, 31 January 2001, you wrote:

>Hello, my name is Dean Fife and I am the Unix focal for the Custom 
Solutions 
>Unit at Compaq in Omaha. The reason for this memo is that we are 
in need 
>of a Compaq Tru64 system administration person for a one year engagement 

>in Kansas City Missouri. I realize this is a Linux mailing list but I 
>assume that many on this list (such as myself) work on Unix as well as 
>Linux. If anyone is interested or knows of someone who might be,
please 
>send mail to dean.fife at compaq.com.
>
>Thanks...
>
>Dean Fife
>



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