what do you-all think about bye bye centos and filepro

[Brian K. White]

On 12/21/20 1:52 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 05:43:03PM +0000, Richard Kreiss thus spoke:
>> I Think that people who boycott a business, even if it for their own
>> satisfaction, are not morons but individuals who are taking a stand no
>> matter what.
> If they choose to penalise themselves for zero tangible net benefit,
> that's up to them.  I'd call that moronic.

I'd call not caring at all mercenary, cooperative/complicit with a bad 
pattern, long term counter-productive, and moronic at another level.

There is a reason for anyone to allow some percentage of their effort or 
capacity to go towards a sort of "pressure tax", meaning you accept 
paying a little more or suffering some other bit of extra effort or 
convenience for the purpose of a principle or to exert some bit of 
pressure, and at another level we all benefit from the small percentage 
of people who sacrifice 100% of their effort to that goal.

I too, am too weak to be a full-on vegan crunchy celibate monk Stallman, 
but I know I have MUCH of my life to thank him and people like him for, 
so, I will never ridicule anyone for being better than I am, and I am 
willing to be at least 20% like that. Not just about software, about 
anything. At one point it was "moronic" to be the only white guy saying 
slavery was wrong. But a few did anyway, and suffered for it, and then a 
few more, and eventually the idea became the majority opinion enough to 
change life for everyone for the better.

Capitulating and cooperating with the process that ultimately screws me, 
in exactly the way the the operators and beneficiaries of that process 
calculated I would, is not my definition of smart and practical. I say 
that's just what people who don't want to suffer the difficulty of 
resisting and pushing back tell themselves to feel better about it. It's 
their right to do that math for themselves. But saying that anyone that 
doesn't feel the same and have the same priorities is a moron...

By this email I am calling you (Mark) names. Be aware, I wouldn't have 
called you names or written this email at all, had you not done the same 
first, or quite so... confidently I guess is a nice word. That judgement 
I just expressed about being weak and manipulable and generally helping 
to keep the world a crappier place, I wouldn't have spoken it aloud, 
because it wouldn't been overall productive.

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bkw