Yet Another Linux Blog: mv elitism /dev/null

“In the beginning of things, open source was about open
everything. I remember joining an irc channel # on efnet back in
1993 and chatting with people who could make things happen with
computers… really make things happen. Coders, managers,
hackers… they were all there and a tight nit core of about 6 of
us stayed in touch for about 7 years until we went our separate
ways and began to use irc less and less. The thing that I remember
the most is the fact that when I joined their little group, I was a
complete and total n00b. Not just a n00b to Open Source… but to
computers altogether. I had a Texas Instruments computer back in
1985 but only messed with that for about a year. Mice were new to
me… I didn’t know ANYTHING at all. In the short time that I began
chatting on irc, I was shown how to do things. When I didn’t know
how to do something, I could count on one of the guys or girls in
the channel helping me to solve my problem within a matter of
minutes. These people stepped down off of their level of operation
long enough to educate me in the ways of the open source…”

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