The Linux Advocacy Bible

From: flatfish+++ (flatfish_at_linuxmail.org)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:13:19 -0500

This group,comp.os.linux.advocacy, has become an absolute farce and is
nothing more than a troll infested flame fest with little or no
advocacy taking place.
It seems that the so called Linux advocates, if there even is such a
thing in COLA, are following the same script day in and day out.

Here is what passes for advocacy in COLA.

1.The distribution switcheroo. If a person has troubles with Mandrake,
suggest SuSE. If troubles with SuSE suggest Redhat and on and on.
It;'s a never ending battle.

2. The dependency switcheroo. If a person has dependency problems with
Mandrake suggest Debian which uses apt. Or maybe Suse which uses YaST
or the king of the hill Gentoo which uses it's own emerge system. The
idea is to keep the person running and guessing.

3. The old hardware routine. Make certain to tell these wild stories
about Linux running on P2 systems with 64m of memory and playing 20
videos at once without a skip.

4. Discredit the user. Make fun of him posting with OE. Call him
flatfish. Do anything that your buddies can back you up on without a
shred of evidence. Make fun of posting with x-no-archive while
ignoring that William Poaster, an idiot by anyone's account, uses it
all the time.
Ignore all the troll posts from comcast and rr.com despite the fact
that it is obvious who these people are.

5. Claim Linux can do x y and z without any proof at all. Claim
Windows does not work for you, again without any proof at all.

6. Blame the hardware vendors for Linux's short comings. This works
well with printers, scanners and video cards. All of which have ***
support under Linux.

7. Blame anyone, but for God sakes don't blame Linux!!

The bottom line is that this group sucks. It consists of a bunch of
sour-balls who are living in a dream world and can;t see the forest for
the trees.

Good Luck fools because you are by far the worst thing that could ever
happen to a decent system like Linux and you are a complete joke on
Usenet.

flatfish+++

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