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After being sidetracked by our resident thread jester, I took the the time to read the original article (and many of the replies). Pretty interesting. I don't know if what he's saying about the Mac community is true, but if what he described is true, one can hardly blame him.

I think you can see pretty nasty behavior from just about any community. I've talked with some folks who do development in the Linux space, and they sometimes have similar complaints. Many say that it is the occasional "attaboy" that keeps them going.

So, I'd like to suggest to those out there who use some of the nifty utilities that make whatever computing platform you choose to use, be they freeware, shareware, or even commercial products, that you take a moment or two to write out a quick note and send it to someone affiliated with the software to let them know that 1) you like the software, 2) you're glad someone took the time to write it, and 3) thanks for doing it.

I'm going to choose the nifty little wysiwyg editor I'm using to compose this message as a starting point.

It's an extension for Firefox called "Xinhahere!" and it works great. Highly recommended for posting to sites like Freerepublic!

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^I think you can see pretty nasty behavior from just about any community.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I can agree. I've seen it myself among linux usergroups and used to see it when I was part of the windows crowd. But not to the extent that the mac community does. The mac really has become less about computing and more about looks and status, by and large. Freeper-mac-users seem to be the exception, you don't have one because of some mythical status, you have it because it's useful.

You don't ever.... *EVER* tell someone really into clothes and shoes and having the best label that their stuff looks like crap. They own flamethrowers like no others. :-P(I'm sure you catch my drift)

I'd like to follow up to my post above briefly.

Last night I sent a note to the lead developer of the Quanta html editor, which is a Linux KDE program that is a part of the KDEWebDev package, and already got a note back from him this morning with some suggestions of how to make the "fish://" protocol work better for me, as I'd mentioned trouble I'd been having with it in relation to Quanta. I didn't expect alengthy reply as I'd just mentioned that I was playing with fish:// to make editing remote documents easier, but his helpful suggestions have already let me set up things here in the house so I can edit documents on my server from my laptop as if they were local files. This rocks!

Any KDE users out there who haven't played with fish:// should check it out. Drop me a line for more details if you need it. I can't code, but I can help others as I've been helped in the past.