[sf-lug] Fedora dealing with UEFI

[Dan Murphy]

I'd just like to thank all of you for the entertainment.
Not choosing sides, not expressing an opinion, just watching from the sidelines.

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting Dennis Harrison (dennisharrisn at gmail.com):
>
>> However, know that most people won't bother to tell you how much your
>> passive-aggressive behavior puts them off.
>
> Boy, are -you- barking up the wrong tree.
>
> I've never been passive a day in my life, and you'll never in all your
> days meet anyone who's more extremely and to-a-fault direct and blunt.
> Agressive?  Absolutely.  Passive?  Not in a million years.
>
> If you're going to go around giving people unsolicited psychobabble
> advice, you should please at least get your categories right.
>
>
> Now, let's review.  Bobbie quotes a misleading ITworld.com headline (and
> matching ITworld.com URL) that people all over the Internet who read
> shallowly have been parroting in order to unfairly slag Fedora Linux,
> i.e., Red Hat, Inc., which as usual has been doing thankless basic
> engineering work and attempting to ensure that all Linuxes can run on
> the next generation of hardware.
>
> Unlike Grant the Ubuntu flack, and apparently unlike you and unlike
> Bobbie, I actually care about whether the truth of Linux news gets out
> and is understood -- and acted to very simply correct the gross
> misstatement of fact and the _utterly_ unfair smearing of the Fedora
> Project by pointing out that the story Bobbie quoted is simply wrong.  I
> also said specifically why.  (I said nothing about Bobbie herself, of
> course, that being specifically not my intention.)
>
> Bobbie came back with a pretty incoherent complaint that she'd somehow
> been mistreated because I'd failed to quote the line where she said it
> was from Usenset -- as if that had anything whatsoever to do with the
> point that she'd posted something that was simply wrong and was GROSSLY
> unfair and borderline defamatory towards the Fedora Project and Red Hat,
> Inc.
>
> Into this picture leapt Grant Bowman the Ubuntu publicist and Canonical,
> Ltd. lapboy, severely in conflict of interest as usual, to take a
> personal shot at the person who'd pointed out that Ubuntu's competitor
> had been unfairly slagged.
>
> And finally, you step in and call me passive -- of all things -- and
> suggest I need to 'pay more attention'.
>
> Well, thanks, Dennis.  I have just paid attention.  Now, I need to get
> busy with other things.
>
>
>
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