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Dave and Brendan are former SGI and Sun engineers. They are refugees. They gave up. So once again we're back to what I said: either one came from SGI, or hp, or Sun Microsystems, but one sure as hell didn't come from the GNU/Linux being an engineer, nor will such a thing ever happen. For 20 years they've been hacking furiously on Linux and still the basic things don't work correctly. That's what happens when one hacks instead of system engineering solutions.

"I really can't imagine being so stuck in a mindset that you feel the need to spend so much of your time being angry about such a large community of people."

Computers were my life, my passion, my calling. They destroyed all that passion in me with their GNU and their GNU/Linux. I will not forget. I will not forgive. They made my professional life a living hell. I hate working in IT because of those people and their mentality.

"Honestly, I just don't get it and I earnestly hope that this is just an online persona you have."

  You must be the change in the world you wish to see.

And I believe that, deeply. I'm absolutely convicted about it. Even if I single handedly must teach apprentices, I will continue to fight until the last drop of blood against GNU and against GNU/Linux and teach people, person by person if I must, as I have been, showing them one on one how awful it is and how superior and easy a real UNIX like SmartOS is. Either until I die or manage to get out of IT. Because truly awful things like GNU and GNU/Linux deserve to be relegated to dark history of IT, and some good and beautiful, well thought out things like SmartOS are worth fighting for. I will continue to fight against ignorance and trend pandering and for enlightment. I will strain like buddha strained if I must. Some things are just worth fighting for and some things one must make a stand against, no matter the cost to oneself. I am forced to work on and with GNU/Linux because people think like you, but I will fight it and resist it every step of the way and I will continue to teach because working on Linux and with GNU/Linux is more work, not less work for me. That alone is more than enough to motivate me.