[conspire] No more GNU HP Minis

[Ruben Safir]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 02:28:21AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben at mrbrklyn.com):
> 
> > The position you made, and it is not without rationality, is that
> > certain kinds of advocacy, like demanding GNU preloads from manufacturers, 
> > is ineffective because, aside from the technical reasons you cited, a
> > waste of time and provocative.  
> 
> Actually, you still didn't get it.  Once again, what I said was:
> 
> o  Your advocacy activity completely fails to advance your announced goal
>    (getting more Linux preloads on new computers), completely aside from
>    the separate question of whether the goal is a desirable one.
> o  Your notion of how to bring it about completely lacks a credible plan,
>    and seems to involve just making a lot of noise on LUG mailing lists.
> o  I make alternative uses of my time and energy that I'm pretty damned
>    sure demonstrably does a whole lot more good, making it extremely
>    peculiar for you to chide me for my effective work, and urge me 
>    to redirect time and energy to your ineffective work.


BTW - why are you up at this hour?  I'm burning the midnight oil writing
a C++ workshop, trying to think up a ration way of explaing the rules
for Scope and Namespace to newbies in the language with programming examples,
after a late night in Manhattan, but it is like 3AM on the Bay area.  



Ruben