[clue-talk] Re: Ubuntu - Not your Grandma's distro

[Nate Duehr]

Collins Richey wrote:
> On 11/17/05, Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> "The sky is falling, the sky is falling, someone called it
>> GNU/Linux!"... at least to me anyway.  Such is the way of trauma.  ;-)
>>
>>     
>
> The sky is not falling, but I've never been able to tolerate this bit
> of the Debian religion just as I was never able to tolerate the "Qt IS
> EVIL" doctrine. YMMV.
>
>   

Heh.  I can empathize.  Certain things are my pet peeves too.

But you gotta admit... adding GNU/ to the front of anything isn't the 
real reason it bothers people.  There's something deeper there and I 
think those more tolerant (e.g. Don't care) poke your buttons just to do 
it by leaving the GNU/ on there.  :-)

I'm not even going to attempt a speculation as to what it might be that 
really bugs people about it, though.  It's so hilarious that it bothers 
people it makes me giggle sitting here at the terminal reading how 
violently you don't like it... 'cause it's so darn trivial.

"We" (as in all Free Software folks) have become exceedingly good at 
worrying about stuff that really just doesn't matter.

Mostly to me it just appears to be yet another "controversial" topic 
(controversial in quotes because everyone agrees GNU actually wrote most 
of the tools we're all using... them or BSD...) for people to argue 
about that takes away from the whole experience and wastes lots of time 
between hacking sessions.  But we all need that from time to time, I 
guess.  :-)

GNU/Nate... typing from my crappy NON-GNU WinXP desktop at work trying 
to make light of how GNU/Funny this all is.   ;-)  !!!

[OT lunch-time link-fun: 
http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php ...  Very 
very funny stuff... just make sure you've finished your GNU/Lunch and 
it's settled before you read it!]