On Mon, April 21, 2014 3:51 am, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
+1
-1 :p
Definitely too much politics here and it would be befit me re-iterate the /political/ nature of the climate gate lies/fraud, which really is purely political [even if science tries to muddy the water] !!!!
See, even you *really* like it. We have three LUV lists for discussing technical matters (main, tech, and beginners). True, LUV-talk tends to not have much discussion on local sporting events. Perhaps because there's enough of that on mainstream media. Ditto for celebrity gossip. Part of the prevalence of politics is because everyone has an opinion on the matter, and part of it is the mainstream media doesn't engage in-depth debates on the issue. The combination of the two means that smart people who want detailed discussions on issues have to look elsewhere - and there seems to be a few of such people here. Also, (he says, gently rolling a grenade into the discussion) is that the subject header equation is wrong. Rather than : Linux != Politics It should be : Linux = Politics + Technology There are particular political choices involved in producing a free and open source operating system (and associated utilities, applications, etc), and in the way that the community is organised, and makes decisions. These decisions are (or rather were) different to the normal expectations of commercial or technical organisation. As a result debate is generated as we are still finding who were, and what we stand for. We're still working those issues through - and I suspect we'll continue to do for a very long time. It's in our blood. It's part of who were are. Politics is, and always has been, and always will be, part of the Linux community. -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech Mngmnt) (Chifley) mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt