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Subject: Slashdot post

Gabe,

   I am quite frankly embarrassed by your post on slashdot.org's site in
reference to the Linux Standards Association.  You have absolutely no clue at
all about Linux, how it came to be and where it's going.  Quite frankly, as a
kernel contributor, you make me regret the work that I did to assist in the
very software you are so ignorantly triumphing.

   Before you go shooting your blasted yap off in public you might want to
invest a grey cell or two in determining WHO THE FUCK YOU ARE ATTACKING.  Ask
around and see who wrote the first frame relay drivers for Linux.  Ask who
championed and later wrote the routing by source patch which is now part of
2.1.XX.  Not only have you discredited Stampede with your blatant foolishness,
but you've made yourself a blight on the arse of Tux.

   And you're completely right, you can hack away at Linux till your hair
falls out and your fingers curl up into arthretic little balls and you will
never need to concern yourself about the LSA.   In fact, the entire community
can continue to slap at Linux like it's a big fuzzy ball, hugging it when it's
convenient and pushing it out of the way when it's not.  And within a
reasonably short time, Linux will find it's way back into the obscure back
rooms from whence it came.

   I won't wait for the apology, as I'll bet none is forthcoming.  As a
representative of a distribution, you shouldn't have skipped those
professional behavior classes they were giving out.  You definately need them.

   Michael McLagan
   Kernel Contributor

   Registered Owner,
   Linux Online

   President,
   Innovative Logic Corp

   President/CEO,
   Linux Standards Association