I think the small business association is a far better subject matter expert on the specialised market of small businesses (which, I suggest to you, may be specialised, but is very large) than a large proportion of the `technology for technology sake` people working on Linux.
Google is not aware of any entity named "Small Business Association." I assume you were referring to the Small Business Survival Committee referred to in the article, a thinktank that does not represent anyone but its own "scholars" and donors, and is interested in maintaining the interests of anyone *but* small businesses.
I'm willing to bet most Slashdotters have a much greater understanding of small businesses, and indeed the world in general, than you appear to have, and a huge number of them work for, or run, businesses, large and small.
You have completely the wrong idea and that sort of attitude only causes the kind of standoffish arrogance that _isn't_ needed: some of these people (i.e. small business association) actually represent your (i.e. Linux) customers: you should work with them and understand them, not rebuke them for their cricitisms or mistakes.
*We* are being standoffish and arrogant?
Again, these people represent nothing but their own short-term financial interests.
And we don't have customers, we have users. Yes, real people, with feelings and needs.
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Miss Teacher, Linus is copying from me again!
cygwin? MS: Look, Windows with Cygwin has so much in common with Linux, they must have copied from us!
Yes it does.
Maybe he meant the verb, "loose," to let loose, to let fly, to release pressure or obligation from, to make less strict :)
I think the small business association is a far better subject matter expert on the specialised market of small businesses (which, I suggest to you, may be specialised, but is very large) than a large proportion of the `technology for technology sake` people working on Linux.
Google is not aware of any entity named "Small Business Association." I assume you were referring to the Small Business Survival Committee referred to in the article, a thinktank that does not represent anyone but its own "scholars" and donors, and is interested in maintaining the interests of anyone *but* small businesses.
I'm willing to bet most Slashdotters have a much greater understanding of small businesses, and indeed the world in general, than you appear to have, and a huge number of them work for, or run, businesses, large and small.
You have completely the wrong idea and that sort of attitude only causes the kind of standoffish arrogance that _isn't_ needed: some of these people (i.e. small business association) actually represent your (i.e. Linux) customers: you should work with them and understand them, not rebuke them for their cricitisms or mistakes.
*We* are being standoffish and arrogant?
Again, these people represent nothing but their own short-term financial interests.
And we don't have customers, we have users. Yes, real people, with feelings and needs.
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