[PLUG] AeA Awards Rep. Minnis

Brian Hazlehurst brian at dcog.net
Sun Jan 11 20:22:02 UTC 2004


On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, list-groups wrote:

> Chris Jantzen wrote:
>
> >Isn't this thread more appropriate to plug-talk? Or perhaps we need a
> >plug-politics?
> >
> >
> >
> Is there a difference? Lurk long enough and you'll find that plug-talk
> is essentially unused. Creating plug-politics would probably be just as
> quiet as plug-talk since the majority want to discuss relevant technical
> issues instead of sifting through bias opinion and speculation about
> what the Government is doing. The fact that this is where most of the
> groups activity is explains why conversations about politics end up on
> this technical forum, it's simply the size of the audience. You see, it
> makes no sense to climb up onto a soap-box to rant in a place where
> nobody will be there to listen.
>
> Just my observation, no offense intended.
>
>

of course, another interpretation is that the politics are not cleanly
separable from the rest, when it comes to open source (heck, even the name
is political since it explicitly draws a contrast with the
alternatives...)

-Brian






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