Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:27:13 -0500
From:      Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Adam <suck@my-balls.com>
Cc:        Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Adaptec AAC raid support
Message-ID:  <0e4314b2c521834b8dc23ba5faafccfa@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <opsnx74zhllgycge@localhost.worldwithoutwire.com>
References:  <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMENCFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <4b92be18094f69f731f15c4872428459@mac.com> <opsnxynwaplgycge@localhost.worldwithoutwire.com> <a248298a3ca63df7a9fa0cd2d64a0b6c@mac.com> <opsnx74zhllgycge@localhost.worldwithoutwire.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mar 20, 2005, at 1:25 PM, Adam wrote:
>> Do you claim to speak for Adaptec?  Your words are dangerously 
>> ill-chosen if you do not work for Adaptec, because you are misleading 
>> people about the company and about their products.
>
> Quit being such a corporate apologist.  They refuse to give out the 
> info
> required to use their hardware.  That prevents people from using it.  
> So
> they obviously don't want people to buy their hardware.

This...

[ ... ]
> And adults learn that businesses like money, and showing businesses how
> they will lose money by making certain decisions can effect those 
> decisions.
> Maybe you should take some more time to understand what is actually 
> happening
> instead of making snide remarks about what you wrongly percieve is 
> happening.

...and this contradict each other.

Pretend for a second that your first claim is actually correct, that 
Adaptec does not want to sell hardware.  Just what do you think you are 
accomplishing by trying to convince people not to buy Adaptec hardware, 
then?  According to your words, that's exactly what Adaptec wants.

If you want to draw valid conclusions, you need to start with valid 
premises.  More precisely, if you assert A implies B, and A is shown to 
be false, you have demonstrated absolutely nothing about B.  Of course, 
before you get to the point of being able to derive inferential 
conclusions using first-order logic, you need to be coherent enough to 
put together an argument which does not claim that A and not A are true 
at the same time.

-- 
-Chuck



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?0e4314b2c521834b8dc23ba5faafccfa>