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Originally Posted by anthonie View Post
Well. I don't know about those past claims made and how much of it turned out to be BS. I have been here too short a while to be able to pass judgement on that. Possibly that is the case, though. And anyone doing so, deserves a bit of good old verbal spanking, I agree with that.

But like I said, in my view it does not take away the validity of the questions asked. I think most of us here are intelligent people. As such it is important to keep the arguments we have as clean and neutral as possible. Smart thinking is what brought us the device and what will be able to keep it alive.
It's very difficult, and usually unreasonable, to ignore the context of the past. Something for new members here to take into consideration: every community has a history. Irritation such as you're seeing just doesn't erupt in a vacuum.

Specific to this thread, the valid point was raised: who is "community", and who is "us"? That's important for the OP to answer, since the general explanation is that they are the same.
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