24 Nov
2004
24 Nov
'04
3:48 p.m.
I do know and work with a couple of people who worked
directly with
[Stallman] at FSF in the '80s and '90s, and they are completely
insufferable, much in the way that Christian Scientists, Moonies, or
Jehovah's Witnesses are. "If It Ain't GNU, It Can't Be True", and
intrusive as hell.
Yeah, anyone who's drunk the kool-aid is, pretty much regardless of
whose kool-aid it was.
And yeah, I probably just managed to offend the *rest*
of CCTalk.
Being an equal-opportunity offender :), I'll note that I've seen this
phenomenon not only with Linux evangelists but with NetBSD evangelists
as well (and probably would have seen it for OpenBSD and FreeBSD too,
if I hung out in those circles). I've seen it for qmail evangelists
(oddly enough, very much less for other MTAs; I have naught but
speculation as to why). I've seen it for "Christian"s (quotes because
such people generally aren't very good Christians as I prefer to use
the word, in the sense of living Jesus's teachings). I've seen it for
twelve-steppers (in my case mostly CoDA, co-dependency being the issue
that brought me into contact with twelve-step programs). I'm sure it
exists in a whole raft of other areas that either I've not run into or
that I can't recall right now.
Evangelism - at least, anything that involves in-your-face conversion
attempts - is one of the few things I am completely unapologetic about
my intolerance towards.
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