So John is back to useless posts that do more to attack than to provide substance. Your earlier departure from this list was not missed.
- Don Imbriale On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:25 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark, > > I am aware that you have done very useful work, and I will therefore be > polite. > > I am a nevertheless more than a little tired of this nonsense. I have > been in this business since 1949. That's 63 years. How long have you > been in this business? > > You would presumably agree with milder formulations of the notion I > set out, say that a GETMAIN makes a complementary FREEMAIN desirable, > perhaps even necessary. > > Moreover, you omitted to provide any details of the many examples of > things that can be made larger but not smaller that you "can think > of"; and this made your argument unimpressive, converted it into > vacuous rhetoric. > > I can myself think of instances of the sort you allude to without > mentioning, and those I have examined in detail stem from the usual > omissis. If shrinking as well as stretching had been a requirement ab > initio, it would have been easy enough to implement. It was not, and > it was hard to provide as an add-on feature. This is bad design, and > Garden-of-Eden states do almost always reflect design defects > > Substantive argument and disagreement are fine. I expect to be > disagreed with. I indeed try not to post platitudes that can provoke > no disagreement. You, howerver, omitted to make any substantive > argument. Your post was one more instance of what I have elsewhere > used MIlls' term to characterize as "crackpot realism". > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
