Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 23:04:17 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Treading on toes (was: O'Reilly article: Whence the Source: Untangling the Open Source/Free Software Debate) Message-ID: <19990311230416.A22479@orcrist.mediacity.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990311211831.040bc900@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 09:26:04PM -0700 References: <4.1.19990311140839.00b25250@localhost> <Your <4.1.19990311093845.00989ee0@localhost> <4352.921186024@zippy.cdrom.com> <4.1.19990311140839.00b25250@localhost> <4.1.19990311204009.040aa890@localhost> <36E89512.C5C28863@softweyr.com> <4.1.19990311211831.040bc900@localhost>
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On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 09:26:04PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 09:16 PM 3/11/99 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > > >To paraphrase an old joke, this "is strong, and contains that which > >promotes growth." (In other words, it's a crock of shit and it stinks.) > > > >The numerous times you've offended ME, every one of them, are when you've > >jumped in here with both feet, kicking and screaming for someone to DO > >SOMETHING FOR YOU RIGHT AWAY, AND DO IT MY WAY BECAUSE EVERY OTHER WAY > >IS STUPID! > > Not so. I've volunteered to work on these things, but people seem to be Brett, I think the most vigorous argument against you is not that you can be very (some say over-) zealous about causes you feel strongly about, not that you don't/haven't/whatever contribute code to the source base (because you contribute articles in magazines, etc), and not that you never admit that you're wrong (because you sometimes are not wrong, and often the position is arguable anyway), but that you refuse to even admit the _possibility_ that others see things differently than yourself. You will argue a point not just into the ground, but straight through it and out the other side of the world, before ever admitting or even realizing that other viewpoints exist and may not be utterly incompatible with your worldview. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Heisenberg might have been here. mailto:gsutter@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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