This is the comment that I was looking for. It is not just in the tech area of life that we are becoming increasingly violent and impatient. This pompusness is something that is found in every subculture, take a look at the guy who knows alot about cars and nothing else; will he be a cool guy and kindly answer your questions without you feeling like an idiot? No not usually, I figured it was because people by nature tend not to have enought things to make them feel good, so they go the easy route belitting and bulling. I thought that most geeks were smart enough about more that one thing so they would'nt need to guard their one chunk so very vemminatly. People aren't to nice these days, we are getting lazyier and much more rude. That's why I like my computer, but it is important to remember that it does'nt make you wholly immune you are still going to have to deal with the human eliment either on message boards or grocery stores. Often times when you are nice and go the extra mile for people just to help them out others think you are weak, so what! There is a huge shortage out there of good feelings and why should we continue to make it worse? AS a group we are smarter than that.
As for linux not being used for that reason I can only hope that with all the scandal and anti-trust going on with Gates that even if nothing happens in court it will start the ball rolling in consumers and business minds. Maybe this article will also inspire some more tech support for those that have the right idea but just not the tech knowhow.
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This is the comment that I was looking for. It is not just in the tech area of life that we are becoming increasingly violent and impatient. This pompusness is something that is found in every subculture, take a look at the guy who knows alot about cars and nothing else; will he be a cool guy and kindly answer your questions without you feeling like an idiot? No not usually, I figured it was because people by nature tend not to have enought things to make them feel good, so they go the easy route belitting and bulling. I thought that most geeks were smart enough about more that one thing so they would'nt need to guard their one chunk so very vemminatly. People aren't to nice these days, we are getting lazyier and much more rude. That's why I like my computer, but it is important to remember that it does'nt make you wholly immune you are still going to have to deal with the human eliment either on message boards or grocery stores. Often times when you are nice and go the extra mile for people just to help them out others think you are weak, so what! There is a huge shortage out there of good feelings and why should we continue to make it worse? AS a group we are smarter than that. As for linux not being used for that reason I can only hope that with all the scandal and anti-trust going on with Gates that even if nothing happens in court it will start the ball rolling in consumers and business minds. Maybe this article will also inspire some more tech support for those that have the right idea but just not the tech knowhow.