formal apology

[kendell clark]

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hi all
Thanks for your nice responses. I wanted to elaborate a bit. This
might be a bit long, so go get a cup of coffee or something.
I switched to fedora because I value free and open source software,
and think it can be a nice alternative to windows and OSX. I'm very,
very sensitive to what I perceive as threats to open source, and feel
obligated to respond in kind. In other words, if I think I've seen a
"windows just works" or similar comment, about all I hear out of that
entire post is "windows and "just works" You could explain your entire
position and I'd likely not hear it, hearing only "linux sucks, it'll
never get anywhere, you should switch back to windows, join the  herd"
It's a poor excuse, I know, but I've had very, very bad experiences
with windows users trying to get them interested in linux, so I'm not
as helpful as I probably should be. If you require windows to do
something in your work or home that linux can't do, I really can't
argue, even though I usually have urge to do just that. What gets me
are the "it's too hard to learn about why fedora doesn't have mp3
codecs, why can't it just install them" I'm one of those people who
think a system should be as free of blobs as possible. If you're one
of those people that think for linux to get anywhere you should be
able to sit down at a computer, turn it on, do everything you want to
do without having to learn anything, we'll have to agree to disagree.
My only defense is, if I snap at you, i'm probably not snapping at
you, but at the "ha ha ha, windows wins, linux has lost" that I hear
when reading posts like that. I think some of the pressure on fedora
might be solved when, or if, industries move away from mp3 and start
using patent free codecs. It just makes business sense, what little I
know about such things. You don't have to pay royalties for every
device you make, and the file size is usually smaller and sounds
better. As for hardware drivers, this is probably for the why people
aren't switching to fedora thread, I'm on the side of linux here. I'm
also blind, and am tired of seeing and hearing about, blind users on
windows being gouged for the right to use their computers, so I'm
aiming to fix this. I feel under a lot of pressure nearly constantly,
and that doesn't improve my mood. I'm (I think) one of the only people
filing bugs against ... well, anything with an accessibility issue, as
well as writing in to the orca list, writing for opensource.com
(something I'm very proud to do), keeping up with all the bug
comments, maintaining a blind specific linux distro, it's a lot to do.
So when I hear  what I think is a "window sjust works" comment, it
immediately brings to mind a bunch of people happily walking out of
stores with their shiny new computers, not having to worry about a
thing, while I'm over here filing bugs, trying to get blind people to
switch (usually not having any luck), and trying not to snap at the
people who use other OSes. Ok, I'm done. I hope I've helped just a
little bit. I've already snapped at two  people today, and for that I
apologize. One had absolutely nothing to do with windows, but it kinda
got the same reaction from me, probably because I completely
misinterpreted the post, adding tone where there was none
Thanks
Kendell clark
Sent from Fedora GNU/Linux

kendell clark wrote:
> Hi all Boy, is this hard. I want to  send out a formal apology to
> the mailing list for the ... less than helpful responses I've sent
> out, two in the last couple of minutes. My only excuse, poor as it
> is, is I've just had two beers last night before going to sleep,
> and I guess it affected my temper. That, and "windows just works"
> comments really irritate me. I should really try not to take it out
> on people, but I'm not good at that. Now that we're on the subject,
> suggestions on how I can avoid this in the future are welcome. I
> seem incapable of doing it myself. I'm all for using what you want,
> but sometimes I get carried away with what I use, and forget that
> other people use other distros. An obvious one, but shrug. Thanks 
> Kendell clark Sent from Fedora GNU/Linux
> 
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