You are most definitely entitled to your own opinion about desktop Linux, but one must also be able to concede when a theory about something that forged that opinion has been disproved.
The problem with me though is that I don't even know what my own so called "opinion" is anymore. When I wrote the thread in April 2008 i'm pretty sure I had it all down then, but this time around I tried to make a pretty simple follow up and closure post that blew up in my face, and the only reason I argued back and forth is because I wasn't about to go down like the fires of hell just because someone wanted to blow my comment out of proportion. I'm stubborn like that, but that extends to a deeper issue that is hardly something worth publishing on an internet message board.
Now, the following is directed at nobody in particular, so don't feel as if it is. What infuriated me the most was the nerve to restart an old thread, take my current statement, which was only trying to defuse the potential for this topic to flare up again, compare it with posts from well over a year ago and continue on with the discussion as if it had finished yesterday. If there was one thing I didn't want to happen, it was for this thread to be revived because I just
knew in the back of my head that once again, we would be right back at square one.
II2II, you had to take the issue just one step further as well. I have to ask, where do you have the authority to comment or criticise based on who I choose to quote or reference in my replies? I respect the fact you're a long time member of the 68kMLA, but I don't see how remarks like...
And iMac600, you don't have to run around patting people on the back because they are defending you. Acknowledgements are fine, but public acknowledgements tend to get cliquish.
...provide any form of use to a topic other than to nitpick. I tend to see a lot in the way of nitpicking going on aroun this place as of lately, unfortunately. Besides, I thought the 68kMLA was all about cliques, be it the cliques that form in the IRC channel to the cliques that form between senior members and junior members. It makes for a dismal attempt at community spirit, something that the 68kMLA destroyed years ago, and frankly I think that could account for the loss of quite a few of our regulars, Wackymacs and Danamania among others come to mind, although I can't speak for them directly.
Add another name to that list.
