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(idea) by seanni (6 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Thu Mar 16 2000 at 7:27:02

See:

KDE vs GNOME
vi vs emacs
little-endian vs big-endian
Mac vs IBM
GUI vs CLI
System V vs BSD
gun control vs 2nd amendment
pro-life vs pro-choice
metric system vs imperial system
etc, etc, etc...

Always been around, always will be around.

(thing) by DataJunkie (8.4 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sun Jan 14 2001 at 12:46:20

Flame Wars are usually the product of mutual disagreement in so-called Chat Rooms. A Troll will strike up a subject, most probably one about religion/politics/sexual orientation/OS preference and one that has been discussed about 3 Trillion times. Another Troll or a gullible person with answer, and soon enough the whole chat room will be "ablaze" with profanity and useless discussion. Flame Wars can go on for minutes, hours, even for days in some cases.

See also: Why we shouldn't argue with each other

(idea) by Jargon (1.8 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Thu Jul 19 2001 at 8:47:52

flame on = F = flamer

flame war n.

[common] (var. `flamewar') An acrimonious dispute, especially when conducted on a public electronic forum such as Usenet.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

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gnome KDE Permanent floating flame wars The flame to end all flames
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One Node to Rule Them All Godwin's Law University of Michigan great desktop schism
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