What is on Your Mind?

I went to a dinner party/birthday party type shindig tonight - and ended up in a rather heated debate with a bunch of closed-source (closed-minded) OS-B sysadmins. I was trying to sell open source, and the spirit of community driven OS-A, but was met by a wall of "oh well, if it's open source its easy to hack).

I informed them that open source allows backdoors to be patched before they become an issue, but they were not amused!

I spent three hours ranting about OS-A at them and got nowhere.

They (my wifes friends) were not impressed!

Anyway - has anyone else annoyed their wives friends by ranting about their favourite OS?

Cheers
ZB

Not me. IT OS preferences are like religion and politics.


On these boards, this type of OS religion discussions are not tolerated and quickly moderated.

Are you trolling Zazzybob?

hehe i dont think that question is trolling much.

personally, i only tell people what i use if they ask me, and most of the time people just say "cool" or, "put that on MY computer!"

I don't know much about trolling. This link seems interesting:

http://www.urban75.com/Mag/troll.html

I actually have very little knowledge of trolling, just heard the term here and there......

Anyway, I just don't want OS religious wars on the board, and for so long, we have avoided them.

I try to aviod talking shop when at parties, etc.

If there are people who want to talk shop, then we generally take the discussion away from the girls (it's the last thing they want to hear anyway).

Have had the odd occassion where some narrow minded individuals have been ignorant of regarding IT issues because of their head-in-the-sand ideals/opinions. You either see it coming or you don't. I tend to drop the line of discussion very quickly with those individuals.

It was never my intention to start an OS war, nor would I be involved in one. I maybe should have made my original post more "generic". Therefore, I have edited my above post to remove any references to particular OS'es.

I was just curious to see if others had been in my situation.

I think at future parties, the computing conversation will be taken away from the dinner table and away from my wife!

And I am definitely no troll

Cheers
ZB

"heated debates" serve no purpose. When I sense the heat level rising, I bow out and let the hotheads take over. Rather than considering computing off-limits, perhaps "heated debates" should be off limits. And they can arise from any almost any subject. Would a heated debate involving, say, cloning pleased your wife any more?