Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> And I suspect the population of lisp maintainers who believe that the >> feature macros are a grave mistake or that the path-name standards are >> only still there because X3J13 insisted is greater than in the >> developer population at large. That's because experts tend to have >> detailed opinions about their field of expertise. > > You don't appear to be arguing against the idea that debian-legal is > extreme compared to the rest of the project.
I'm arguing that what you perceive as extremism is simply the presence of knowledge -- sure, the debian-legal regulars have opinions about licenses. The X Strike Force probably has opinions about windowing systems and weird architectures. That doesn't make XSF or D-L extremists, though. To characterize anyone with knowledge and the reasoned opinions that spring from it as an extremist is unwise; to dismiss them because of this extremism is to restrict yourself to the opinions of the unwise. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
