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Date:      Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:33:33 +1000
From:      Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation
Message-ID:  <4EFDBDAD.5040905@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20111230080510.52653cec@scorpio>
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On 12/30/11 23:05, Jerry wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:35:46 +1000
> Da Rock articulated:
>
>> Was this really necessary to post to the list? Publicly? Opinions are
>> your own, but this does appear rather vindictive and not really
>> wanted on a friendly list.
>>
>> For reference Polytropon has been rather helpful many times on this
>> list regardless of how many faux pas maybe made; I'm sure you're not
>> without fault either.
> The fact is that Poly has taken "negativity bias" to a new level. I
> fully realize that part of this is due to his socialist/fascist
> upbringing; however, that in itself does not justify it.
>
> I did take a class in quantum physics in college. However, I can
> assure you that I would never attempt to pretend to understand it nor
> lecture about it. Yet, according to his own statements, not mine, he
> has no knowledge of Microsoft yet he continues to lecture on it. That
> is pathetic. That would be akin to me reading the cover page for an
> application available on FreeBSD, one that I had never used and then
> giving a lecture on its use and implementation.
I would say that is a very narrow viewpoint given that anyone in this 
field playing with advanced and community developed software has had to 
have come across Winblows in in some capacity somewhere. Anyone willing 
to conjure up methods to avoid Winblows _must_ have a veeerry good 
reason for doing so; and therefore some rather reasonable knowledge of 
that cursed system to a very high level- such as myself.

I fail to see what political bias has to do with this discussion; and by 
stating such you could only unveil your own- and I'll motion that you 
take it elsewhere and not on the list. This is a technical list: not a 
social sciences club.

A lot of people take pot shots at M$, Winblows, and Gates, satirical or 
otherwise; what are you- his best mate? :) I was training for MCSE and 
even the lecturer was having a go at it.

Please end this now, its just unwanted noise.



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