Goodbye Linux/Ubuntu

[Tom H]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> The biggest problem I have with this list all of the rampant "Elitism"
> and "Newbie Hate".  It has no place here, its not wanted here, and it
> just causes chaos and discord in what should otherwise be the best
> damn Linux support community on the planet.
>
> Mark Shuttleworth's vision for what Ubuntu and its community should be
> is similar to Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future in Star Trek.  A
> world where people have learned to get along and live together in
> peaceful cooperation, where hang ups over race, age, sex and religion
> have become a thing of the past.  "Infinite diversity in infinite
> combinations" is as true for the Ubuntu community as it was for the
> Vulcans.  Through our diversity we are made stronger, we are only as
> strong as our weakest link, and its the responsibility to help those
> who are our weakest links to become stronger with us.  Undermining all
> of this is the "Elitist" attitude of those who don't share
> Shuttleworth's vision and see Linux as their own personal playground
> and to hell with everyone else.
>
> The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.  This
> community, this list especially, needs to stop catering to the needs
> of the "very vocal" few who refuse to act civil and don't show the
> same respect that they loudly demand from others.  They can learn to
> place nice or they find another playground because we won't stand for
> it anymore.

Elitist?!

How many times has anyone been told "this is too basic a question for
this list"?!