On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 02:25, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Mr. Ballard: > > No, it's not that I'm uncomfortable over the fact, yes, fact, that free > software in general, or the Linux kernel in particular, have both bugs > and security vulnerabilities. > > It's your grossly ignorant, yet simultaneously cocksure and self-assured > statements. Many false, but with a thin thread of truth permeating, as > well as your incessant posts, which are annoying. > > If someone tells me "it's a sunny day and the earth is flat", the fact > that they're right that it's a sunny day doesn't make the earth any less > round. Nor does repeating the statement endlessly. > > > Your post here is one in point. I don't expect you to see, acknowledge, > or understand this point, so I'm making it for the masochists following > this thread: > > There are bugs in the kernel code. Estimates of such bug counts can > be made. And again I pointed out several texts, most from the > bibliography of _Code Complete_, which point out the statistical > basis on which an increasing or decreasing bug count can provide > some level of assurance, of how many such bugs there are. > > I don't know what it is that you are _trying_ to prove. What you've > _succeeded_ in proving is that you're grossly out of your depth, a > source of misinformation, unwilling to acknowledge errors, more > concerned about defending a nonexistant image than either teaching or > learning, and impossible to converse with. As such, I'm largely doing > what I'd advise others to do: point out the misinformation in your > posts, and move on, with minimal wasted time. <voice style="Valley Girl"> Like, Oh my GAWD... like gag me with a source-fork... gnarly.
You know... you really... like, were succinct there... Totally. </voice> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry
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