In
<CAE1XxDHVL_wm_RvFP=rckprfhqooja1tioo8llyb8tl73fo...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 04/07/2013
at 02:58 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>Alexander Pope's abjuration, "Be not the first by whom the new are
>tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside", nicely encapsulates
>their attitudes.
My attitude is different; as a radical middle of the roader, I'm an
early adopter when I see cause, and am willing to be the last to throw
the old aside when it is still useful. However, I'm somewhat more
conservative when it comes to putting things into production.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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