Christopher Sawtell napsal(a):
>> See, I don't really care how the reporter feels, if something's not a
>> bug, then it's not a bug.
> In which case it must be a feature, so why not use the keyword FEATURE?

And why use it? Anything else than 'so that we are 'politically
correct'? Sorry, this doesn't go anywhere.

>> Don't invent confusing 'politically correct' 
>> junk for this just because someone might feel 'offended'.
> I think that insufficient people in the open source and free software 
> movements realize that in the real world there are differing cultures all of 
> whom have differing sensitivities to language constructs.
> 
> imnsho it's very important not to cause deliberate offense, because doing so 
> perpetuates the idea that FOSS movement people are an unpleasant bunch of 
> individuals. This causes users to make the choice of using computer products 
> from elsewhere, and developers to spend their free time doing other things.

Oh, so resolving 'INVALID' a bug for people that report crap like 'oh,
my sci-mathematics/*' thingy got horribly broken with -ffast-math'
causes an offense to them? Well, that's a good thing, maybe they'll
actually use their brain next time.


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