On 2007-12-18, John Robson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> i.e. your licence?
>> The distros' practises.
> Because tuomo is always right (tm)
I _am_ the author.
> Oh - then how come I've never had any problems with it?
Maybe you've stuck to a few well-behaved applications in tiled
mode.
>> Morality is bullshit. Religion in disguise.
> I'm sorry I thought I was talking to a rational individual.
If we get philosophical, rationality is bullshit too.
> I'm guessing you're agnostic since you seem to detest religion so much.
I'm just godless. (Good you didn't think of me as an atheist.)
Speaking of which, I recently watched the latest diatribe by Richard
Dawkins and, well, that guy chants "Science and Reason" more frequently
and with more fervor than US propaganda goes on about "Freedom and
Democracy".
> ugly - subjective
> blurry - subjective and dependant on the antialiasing used
> unreadable - subjective
> You (as admitted below) just hate anything new.
Subjectivity is the key. But the practises of the FOSS herd do not
support subjective tastes.
> Cryptic config is a pain wherever it is, but it's not as if the ion config
> file is stable in syntax.
You're talking about software in development stage. Now, of course, the
distros where it changes are also in development, which brings as back to
topic: the software in the megafrozen ("stable") is too old and too broken
to be of much use, so you have to use their even more broken development
versions. (Which, from what I call, even the "stable" releases of many
more frequently-snapshotted distros are.)
>>> Ah - you're feeling opressed. Then again you seem to feel victimised by
>>> most walks of life if your blog is anything to go by. I think that's
>>> mostly how you view the world.
>> Modern technology mostly sucks.
> Except vacuum cleaners I presume.
They have the unfortunate tendency to blow.
>> It's more work for me to maintain all that code.
> Not if it's correctly implemented when you integrate it.
Which means: a separate module, so I don't have to care about it. I don't
like having to wait weeks when trying to make a release, to see if the
contributors have gone AWOL, will have time upgrading their (such as
autocrap), and so on. And I'm not going to start upgrading/fixing
features I don't care for.
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Tuomo
