Startup blues...
I too, am doing the work of three. Less time to post these days.
I get about 10 min a day to read what I can, post what I can. Sometimes, I get 30, when I'm lucky.
In the end, my wife is encouraging me to give up on the forum. She thinks I get better info out of google searches, and I waste my time here.
She thinks, since I work so much, that I already spend too much time on computers at work and I need to focus on RL (Real Life) when I'm at home.
However,
I really respect Greg and Rick Moen in the Linux forum.
Peter is a classic brit. I really like Wade. I've liked Maggie for a long time, but she's more busy than I am (and I'm pretty busy).
Then, there's DeSitter (Ross), whom I respect, and orion, Ray and the rest of the lot, whom I seem to get along with, and every once in a while, get a good chat going.
I feel like I know most of you pretty well. We've been through stuff together, job changes, hacked systems, and such.
So, I think it would be hard for me to give up, because I count at least a few of you as "friends".
Nick was a contributor not too long ago.
I know there's some of the best Linux tech people here, short of those who actually wrote the kernel. (Maybe a few of you have even done that.)
However, I really do think we've kind of become a gated community. I'm concerned as Maggie and a few others are, that this has become a little too personal, and that instead of floating good to great ideas around together, we've just started treating others like "family", and I don't really mean that in a good sense. We've learned to 'dis each other just enough.
Familiarity breeds contempt?
With my wife concerned about my work hours and family time, I've actually thought about leaving the forum, too. But, I will miss most of you, and I try to stay at least minimally involved, when I can.
Glen Austin
