<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/18/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jon Pruente</b> <<a href="mailto:jdpruente@gmail.com">jdpruente@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I agree that people like Shannon can cause political uneasyness, but<br>there are many in FOSS that can do the same. Heck, Shannon is an<br>admitted Pink-Liberal-Pacifist. Politically I'm 180 from him, but he<br>is brilliant in areas of computing. He writes his own database
<br>interfaces and drivers in hand coded assembly. The community area of<br>BME, called IAM, has over 15,000 users and is a dynamic content<br>creation system with actives users literally all over the world. He<br>had it running smoothly at that level on a P3 850 running Windows and
<br>his hand coded software. He has other sites of interest including<br><a href="http://www.priceofhistoys.com/">http://www.priceofhistoys.com/</a> <a href="http://www.undermars.com/">http://www.undermars.com/</a> and his blog
<br>(linked to IAM) at <a href="http://www.zentastic.com/">http://www.zentastic.com/</a><br><br>Aside from political differences (many people on BME/IAM oppose<br>some/many of his views) he is the one person I know who HAS done
<br>location and mapping work, on his own, nearly by himself, and gotten<br>it to work. That alone is somebody who should be consulted for a<br>project like this, regardless of his more extreme views. I forgave<br>Linus for his fathers Communist sympathies years ago. :)
<br><br>Jon.<br><br>I may be guilty of overestimating the knee jerk potential here.</blockquote><div><br>But- playing it from my original premise let's still not let our guard down .<br>"WE" may be able to disconnect easily "best programmer" from NSFW pictures.
<br>The masses of mundanes sadly are often less openminded and OSS gets put at risk.<br>THAT was why I listed the Edison grandstanding. <br>As re-assurance that Fearmongering often fails in dramatic reversa<br><br>Political alignment aside- the link was cringemaking to me for it's potential -if nothing else- to get "netnanny" software associating Linux with "Not child safe" material.
<br><br>Oren<br></div></div>