Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 14:29:15 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: mallison@konnections.com (mike allison) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, scrappy@hub.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, chat@freebsd.org, joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Commercial, Non-Hacker CD Distribution - A thought Message-ID: <199704200459.OAA02794@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <335AF19E.3A4A39D2@konnections.com> from mike allison at "Apr 20, 97 09:48:30 pm"
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mike allison stands accused of saying: > I sense a bit of hostility here. Pfagh. No, you sense me being annoyed with people that ramble on about stuff without caring a whit for the facts. If they're not convenient, hell, just make 'em up. You're the one inventing the hostility; I really couldn't care what you do except when it craps on my efforts. > I actually HAVE chacked write-ups reviews and Star's own stuff and > there are always veiled references to Motif. I believe at one time > Motif was a requirement. If it's not anymore they should drop all > references. Uhh, let me get this straight; they should drop all the erroneous references to Motif from other peoples' publications, after they have been published and circulated, because a newer version than the one reviewed no longer has the same requirements? My friend, that wasn't even possible in Soviet Russia. If you are unwilling or unable to keep up with things as they are, and that means ooking at new ports that might be interesting, reading the announce messages off the lists here and elsewhere then the correct procedure is to _ask_ someone. If you had mailed/posted and said "Doesn't the new StarOffice require Motif", I would have said "No, and in fact the only thing that ever required it was the installer, and they linked Motif into it statically this time. Aren't they nice?" > I still think everyones focusing on a single noodle and not the whole > soup... I was only ever intersted in the fact that everyone is criticising one particular noodle which is not deserving of it. The real problem is that too many people are standing around in the kitchen bragging about the recipies they know, and nobody is doing any cooking. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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