> -----Original Message----- > From: yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Seth Vidal > Sent: Tue 9/16/2008 6:29 PM > To: Yellowdog Updater, Modified > Subject: RE: About Yum Server setup question > > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 15:52 -0700, Skahan, Vince wrote: > > Sigh - not to open a flame war but would it be > > possible to please hold the zealotry to a minimum > > if you'd be so kind ? > > > > 1. I don't think it's zealotry :) Hear hear, and I've rarely seen so kind of an open source developer. I marvel at Seth's patience, and am in awe of his good works, which make my daily work computing experience far less stressful than that which I experience at home on my closed-source box. > > 2. I won't hold it down :) Silence == complicity. Thank you Seth. > > > > Many of us work for employers where we do not have > > the ability to live in an open source nirvana, > > regardless of how much we might potentially agree > > on its desirability. > > And that means you shouldn't work to change both your employer and the > world? My ancestors worked for a vassal lord in a feudal backwater society. I appreciate their efforts to change that situation, and I appreciate Seth's efforts to liberate me from the current operating system lords. I've pushed for open source software at all of my jobs, often with success. I recommend the effort to all. (I also donate to open source projects and developers - money and code.) > > I didn't say the original author was a bad person - I just said that > closed source software is bad for the world. Just ask disenfranchized American citizenry bamboozled with Diebold voting machines. Closed source software has been used to undo some of our hard-fought gains. Kudos to Seth and all like him! Steve McKinney > > > -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
