Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail
From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Hans-Bernhard_Br=F6ker?= <HBBroeker@t-online.de>
Newsgroups: comp.arch.embedded,comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Mecrisp on the TI Stellaris Launchpad
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 12:19:45 +0200
Lines: 17
Message-ID: <cpepdvF2bm9U1@mid.dfncis.de>
References: <mfkp4c$s28$1@dont-email.me> <51cc1808-8727-4694-b94a-ee9d08209da4@googlegroups.com> <ec2dd465-48dc-49fa-8584-8fa1183ebbc8@googlegroups.com> <87618vyb8d.fsf@jester.gateway.pace.com> <mgpv33$469$1@dont-email.me> <mgr288$4dr$1@speranza.aioe.org> <2015Apr17.164257@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <cpdfipFne3kU1@mid.dfncis.de> <mgs6v2$4at$1@dont-email.me>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: news.dfncis.de mCajKOpJwWoIh4L7J1l7hQE5+UoYeclA/Q2tR9uDysTEqcP4lZ6ctc84Nf
Cancel-Lock: sha1:zoYOsVuXbZxzqzCCzNlfUPwwEhY=
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0
In-Reply-To: <mgs6v2$4at$1@dont-email.me>
Xref: csiph.com comp.arch.embedded:20706 comp.lang.forth:38333

Am 18.04.2015 um 02:03 schrieb rickman:

> I don't wish to insult anyone.  But I will say that I have tried to
> learn linux several times and found poor support from the linux
> community.  Mostly I think there is an attitude that "we" (the linux
> community) got it *right*,

In all fairness, from this end your attitude, particularly that 
"really!?", did come across pretty much the same, just applied the 
opposite way.  This attitude thing does cut both ways.

 > when there are many, many more PC users, even
 > professional programmers, than there are working under Linux.

That's the "trillions of flies eat shit, so that must be a good thing!" 
fallacy.  Democracy just doesn't work to decide about technical merit.