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[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 03 May 2006 14:25, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Why on Earth do you come to these newsgroups if you are only
> interested in Linux bashing?  You're not an ordinary sort of troll,
> or I'd just be ignoring you.

Read his recent posts in the security thread. He's been in this game 
since '76 and even made comments about how he's come to hate 
computers. That might have been a self-deprecating joke, but many a 
true word is spoken in jest.

Most likely scenario: a clue-up technical guy whose had to put up with 
30 years of the accumulated garbage of PHBs, clueless idiots, idiotic 
developers and all the other trash that infests this industry. So you 
get someone who knows his onions but now every time he communicates 
in his professions, and all you hear is the cynicism. I've seen it 
many times, it's a damn shame and a waste of decent manpower.

Doesn't have to have happened like that, only Michael knows for sure. 
Maybe he'll respond and tell us. I for one would like to see him tone 
down the cynicism a notch and share more of his expertise. It's 
there, he just doesn't let it out to play with the rest of us too 
often.

Michael, I have a question for you: Why did you _really_ switch to 
Ubuntu on your desktop and drop Windows? 

-- 
If only you and dead people understand hex, 
how many people understand hex?

Alan McKinnon
alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
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