I think the big mistake everybody makes when considering this issue is thinking of Metallica as a a creative entity. Make no mistake, Metallica is a business, a corporation, a money making machine. They're way past the point of caring about integrity, or creative expression, or any of the other cliches that bands that aren't stinking rich value.
Metallica has been one of the top grossing live acts in the 90's. They all have huge houses in Marin County and they all drive the biggest, most rediculous Mercedes' you can buy - all except for James Hetfield, who drives a massive Dodge truck, he hasn't managed to shed his hill-billy ways. Suffice it to say, they're intensely stinkin' rich.
As soon as one considers this thing called Metallica in this new light, it begins to make more sense. Why not sick a bunch of lawyers on Napster users, they certainly don't need to please their fan base any more and they've got to protect their creative genius (pause here for laughter).
I guess I should disclose my bias and say that I think Metallica is mostly a pretty lame act. But remember, they're a corporation, not a band.
I fully agree that people on the whole are impatient and lazy when it comes to reading documentation. But for now, it's a fundamental skill if one can expect to be successful with Linux.
I can safely classify myself as a Linux newbie, but I've known from the start that the majority of the answers to questions I have lies at LDP. I've waded though a buttload of documentation -- most of it useful, some truely helpful and some truely useless.
If I have learned anything through it, it would be the fact that finding answers in Linux documentation takes some skills. Clearly, one has to understand the difference between a HOWTO, a Mini-HOWTO, a guide and a man page, and the scope of the information in each - sounds like HOWTO is in order for this? *half kidding*.
I don't know what the answer is for newbies without the patience to RTFM. I get frustrated by the lazy "hold my hand" approach of some newbies, but I try not to give them attitude.
Sometimes the road to world domination is long and arduous. We'll get there.
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Metallica has been one of the top grossing live acts in the 90's. They all have huge houses in Marin County and they all drive the biggest, most rediculous Mercedes' you can buy - all except for James Hetfield, who drives a massive Dodge truck, he hasn't managed to shed his hill-billy ways. Suffice it to say, they're intensely stinkin' rich .
As soon as one considers this thing called Metallica in this new light, it begins to make more sense. Why not sick a bunch of lawyers on Napster users, they certainly don't need to please their fan base any more and they've got to protect their creative genius (pause here for laughter).
I guess I should disclose my bias and say that I think Metallica is mostly a pretty lame act. But remember, they're a corporation, not a band.
I fully agree that people on the whole are impatient and lazy when it comes to reading documentation. But for now, it's a fundamental skill if one can expect to be successful with Linux.
I can safely classify myself as a Linux newbie, but I've known from the start that the majority of the answers to questions I have lies at LDP. I've waded though a buttload of documentation -- most of it useful, some truely helpful and some truely useless.
If I have learned anything through it, it would be the fact that finding answers in Linux documentation takes some skills. Clearly, one has to understand the difference between a HOWTO, a Mini-HOWTO, a guide and a man page, and the scope of the information in each - sounds like HOWTO is in order for this? *half kidding*.
I don't know what the answer is for newbies without the patience to RTFM. I get frustrated by the lazy "hold my hand" approach of some newbies, but I try not to give them attitude.
Sometimes the road to world domination is long and arduous. We'll get there.