Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 9:40:22 AM, Branden wrote: > On the contrary, you seem to believe your opinion should carry at least > equal weight to all the precedent and tradition that conflicts with it.
No, I have asked for and never got a valid *TECHNICAL* reason for it. It took well over a day for it. Apparently people here, yourself included now, are more interested in brow-beating people instead of offering real answers to real questions. > Your greatest talent seems to lie in wasting the time of people who are > actually trying to make meaningful contributions to free software. > Congratulations. If they answered the questions posed instead of being pricks about it, their time would not be wasted, would it? No. > That is why you get the chilly reception you do. Incorrect, I get the chilly reception I do because I don't bow and scrape to every half-assed answer presented to me and then slither into the corner like a good little lemming. > No one questions your right to set up/break your own machines however you > please. But they will challenge your attempts to remold the world to fit > your personal esthetic. A personal esthetic, I might add, that was founded on technical reasoning based on the facts at hand that was challenging other's assertations on those grounds and receiving little more than a "because we feel like it" in response. I don't know about you, but "because we feel like it" doesn't cut the mustard in a technical discussion. I doubt that you'd accept it. > If you really want to impact this issue, I suggest you attempt to join the > FHS committee. I wouldn't be surprised if they turn you down, though. You > seem to be more concerned with a kind of self-aggrandizing partisanship > than with resolving real-world technical issues. No, I don't want to impact the issue. I wanted a technical reason for it or nothing. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. -------------------------------+---------------------------------------------