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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news2.near.net!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!burley From: burley@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: I hope this wont ignite a major flame war, but Ive got to know! Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc Date: 30 Jul 94 14:22:20 GMT Organization: Free Software Foundation 545 Tech Square Cambridge, MA 02139 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <BURLEY.94Jul30102221@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <30drlt$7tc@news.u.washington.edu> <Ct5qpn.G6E@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU><9407221206.29@rmkhome.com> <DHOLLAND.94Jul25171448@scws33.harvard.edu> <1994Jul26.165729.12612@rosevax.rosemount.com> <michaelv.775258457@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <BURLEY.94Jul2 <rwa.775337438@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: rwa@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca's message of 27 Jul 94 19:30:38 GMT In article <rwa.775337438@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> rwa@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander) writes: burley@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley) writes: >In article <michaelv.775258457@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: > >: > : Linux is the choice of a GNU Generation [complaint about motto omitted...] >Intelligent people and/or people with even a little bit of a sense of >humor know these things. It gets tiresome after the N-trillionth repetition. The linux guys are fine and it's a nice system, but .sigline chauvinism grates. Let's save our venom for proprietary OS-wannabes (finder, m$dog). Agreed that some .sig's just get real stale after a while. Though one-liners like the above usually don't bother me as much as, say, the large ASCII-art ones. Stale .sig's is something I decided to avoid at the outset by simply not having anything in my .sig that wasn't my title and email address (plus a one-line "ad" for a while, which I have since removed). -- James Craig Burley, Software Craftsperson burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu