Inquirer lacks innovation (was: Linux desktop lacks innovation)

[Richard A. Johnson]

On Saturday 17 November 2007, David Gerard wrote:
| On 17/11/2007, Richard A. Johnson <nixternal at kubuntu.org> wrote:
| > BAH! Here is an innovative idea, stop feeding the Inquirer trolls and
| > lets get back to enjoying our non-innovative desktops.
|
| "Troll" is a pretty harsh label for someone, one that Liam Proven
| really doesn't deserve. He's been writing some of the least sucky
| Inquirer stuff I've seen of late.

Didn't know he wrote it, don't know who he is. Granted I generalized the 
Inquirer, but these "xxx is not innovative" posts are about as bad as they 
get. You can sit there and say this isn't innovative and that isn't 
innovated, but are you doing anything to make it more innovative? Griping and 
non-constructive criticism is useless, that is why I tend to not read 90% of 
the Linux articles out there. It seems to me that these people have nothing 
else better to do, and most of the times, it seems articles such as this are 
drummed up to gain readers or hits for advertisement.

| And hey - at least it's not Andrew Orlowski talking about Ubuntu.

Have no idea who that is either. I am starting to feel like I am living a 
sheltered life :)

Ahhh, now I see the original post for this entire thing. Don't know why it 
ever made it to the Sounder in the first place. Not used to having editors 
come in and pimp their own posts. It is things like that, that tend to bring 
out the tossing of the troll word.

"Not sure if folks hereabouts saw this. I had hoped for more constructive 
comment and criticism than I got."  <quote from original post>

If you want constructive criticism, don't post to the inquirer unfortunately. 
In the US we have a magazine called the Enquirer, and it is literally filled 
with utter BS, so after reading articles on the Inquirer over the years, I 
have placed them both in the same genre, "useless".

I will go back with my original comment on my last post...if you want to write 
about innovation, be innovative in your post. Regurgitating what hundreds of 
other people have already said isn't innovative in the slightest way.

-- 
Richard A. Johnson
nixternal at kubuntu.org
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