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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] SuSE tainted
From:       Basil Chupin <blchupin () tpg ! com ! au>
Date:       2006-11-26 2:44:33
Message-ID: 4568FF91.5090002 () tpg ! com ! au
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Steve Jeppesen wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:35:52 -0500
> Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
> 
>> Calling someone a troll just for saying something negative is silly.
>> Novell is perfect, the angel of Linux? Nothing Novell does should be
>> questioned? Novell can join with Microsoft and make moves that impact
>> the whole future of open source, and no one is allowed to discuss it?
>>
>> I invite all "trolls" to sign Bruce Perens' open letter to Novell's
>> CEO Ron Hovsepian:
>>
>> http://www.techp.org/petition/show/1
> 
> duly signed.
> 
> I however would prefer to read my news elsewhere.  This forum I thought
> was for technical/support related issues.
> 
> My bad.
> 
> and by the way - offhand humor there - I am considering myself a troll
> - because I just read and soak in the knowledge here rather than
> posting something actually relevant (if you couldn't tell  LOL)

I think many people misuse the word "troll" in the sense that you mean 
it above. The correct word for such activity is "lurk" or "lurker" or 
"lurking".

Cheers.


-- 
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us 
with sense,
reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

 
Galileo Galilei

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