Safe as Milk: Taking a Step Back | Linux Today

Safe as Milk: Taking a Step Back

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 29, 2006

“Every so often I get so invested in something that I start to
go off the rails a little when others don’t see things in the same
way. At the moment there are two situations like that–one I won’t
go into, and the other is a long-standing issue in the GIMP
community about how to handle abuse in the community.

“So I’ve been getting overly heated on both these issues, and
have been trying to keep things moving in the right direction, but
I realised yesterday that in both cases my intervention has been
counter-productive…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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