On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Paul Cutler wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 02:14 -0500, Yaron wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Brian Dolan-Goecke wrote:
>>
>>> This month at the Penguins Unbound Meeting Stephen Fluin will talk 
>>> about Browsers on Linux
>>
>> So basically it's going to be something like "There are browsers other 
>> than Firefox. No really, there are, honestly. Some of them are even 
>> completely functional! What's that? Are they /better/ than Firefox? 
>> Well, "better" is subjective. I mean they have other features. No, not 
>> as many. No, you can't use Adblock Plus and Noscript on the other 
>> browsers. Look, please, there are some really good reasons to use these 
>> other browsers! What? How many reasons? Lots! Ok, one! But it's a very 
>> goo... what? *sigh* yes it IS "curiosity". Fine I'll just talk about 
>> Firefox for the entire time."
>
> And how was this email helpful?  At least Brian has taken the initiative 
> to do something positive and have monthly meetings with topics on Linux 
> for new to experienced Linux users.
>
> Maybe before you criticize you should spend a year or two organizing 
> monthly meetings and trying to get speakers / topics.


There's that, and also, maybe he's wrong about the content of the 
presentation.  What about memory usage?  What's up with Chrome for Linux? 
Maybe he'll say a few things about Lynx and wget and curl.

Mike