Jonathan Revusky wrote: > Vinny wrote: > >> Seriously I'd rather use Spring, Wicket or Rife than use something >> made by people like this guy. > > Yeah, it's terrible. Just so you guys can make better informed > technical decisions, I'll disclose ...snip... terrible table manners > ...snip... horrendous slurping ...snip... belcher and farter. > ...snip... so that people can make the right technical decisions. > Jonathan Revusky > lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/
(caveat: I have no dog in the fight. I am somwhat concerned that there is a fight going on and I am sincerely hopeful for a good outcome for each of the combatants, and I see irony and sarcasm as possible train-wreckage removal or beautification devices. And I'm a user not a dev, so you won't see me continuing this on the dev list.) Wow. Jonathan, you must be very confident of your income stream! (I'm not, as a reference point) You must be one of these "I've made so much money by now, I really don't care what people think of me" developers. (I'm not, as a reference point) Or perhaps you rely on your technical skill being so unavoidably evident that you can be publicly "direct" (ahem) and get away with it. (I can't, as a reference point) :( ... sigh ... it is quite different to those of us who have to hide behind newbie politeness or just pathetic anonymity in case we say something either so rude or so tehnically stupid that a future employer will notice it and cut us off their interview list. It brings to mind the cartoon of Dilbert going to work in a bathrobe because he'd realised his *actual* worth to the company. Mind you I don't agree (a little understated) with the strategy of being rude as a practice. I think that one has to factor in the 90% non-verbal content of face-to-face communications that goes missing in email conversations. Perhaps if this entire conversation had occured at a JUG or cafe (or under the supervision of a panel of psychiatrists and professional wrestlers), we would have noticed the little smiles grimaces and so forth that each other were dressing our faces with and kept some of the lines a little more guarded. But gosh, here I am, a nobody giving newbie advice to gurus. sigh. Sadly I recall Jonathan's first email to the list, and an early reply from one of the leads saying a warm "welcome". Perhaps I'll dig it out of the archive and repost it for a glowing moment ... like "It was a nice warm morning in Hiroshima on August 6 and there was the sound of a plane overhead ... I always liked the sound of airplanes flying over and ... ". Won't it be disappointing to see the first technical decision of the WW2 Struts merger be that the default presentation whatever is changed from Freemarker to XXX, purely based on an unworkable inter-team personality confict rather than any tech criteria? And I can't understand why this thread hasn't been slashdotted yet ... "OS Gurus Flay Each Other and Set a New Direction for the Entire Internet, While MS Laughs" from the my-pattern-is-better-than-yours dept Oh, by the way ... what's "disrupting the market" mean? Mourning Moose --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
