From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 14 17: 7:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD0037C683 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 17:07:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA11015; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:06:51 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000714180022.04a0a530@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:06:48 -0600 To: Rahul Siddharthan , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Displacement of Blame[tm] In-Reply-To: <20000715043428.A12814@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000714145815.049135c0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 05:04 PM 7/14/2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >But it looks like Brett doesn't know when he's made his point clear. >He can't stand disagreement. Not so. In fact, I enjoy working out disagreements. What I do NOT enjoy is when folks hurl insults for no reason, which some people seem to do whenever they disagree. > If people disagree, he repeats himself. Only if people restate what I said in a way which indicates that they did not UNDERSTAND what I said. >If people continue to disagree, his answer is to get more and more >personal in his criticisms of them. I don't introduce personal criticisms. I do, however, criticize ideas; and I do point out when people are arguing ad hominem or making unwarranted personal attacks. >Also, no matter what the original topic of the thread was, Brett will >always find a way to bring Richard Stallman's name into it, somewhere, >somehow. Not always. He does seem to rear his head a great deal in discussions about advocacy, however, since one of the reasons I advocate the use of the BSDs is because they are necessary to defuse the FSF's nastiness. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message