Blocking in Pidgin

[Samuel Thurston, III]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:20 AM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not Linux elitism, it's beleaguered middle-aged stepdad elitism ;-p

Which I can totally get behind.  And re-reading my email, I think my
tone was a little harsher than I intended... I was trying for
lighthearted and a little irony in there myself.  But one of the
number one things I hear when I suggest to the virus-ridden that they
try Ubuntu is something along the lines of "don't you have to be a
super-genius to use Linux?" The answer, as I've plainly seen evidenced
on this and other lists is a resounding NO.  But I think that comments
(sarcastic or otherwise) about the average intelligence of MSN/windows
users etc. is at the very least detrimental to my personal evangelism
efforts, which are born from not wanting to have to fix as many
computers, because I honestly don't care what OS anyone else uses
unless they want me to fix it.

So in the spirit of brotherly love I am asking, politely, please don't
harsh on the windows users: the vast majority of them are scarcely
aware that there are alternatives.  It will make my life a little
easier in the long run.  Maybe yours too.