I agree with Dave here. Let's have a discussion rather than worry about being offensive. There's a lot of understanding that comes of open and respectful discussion. If we're not allowing ourselves to discuss the relative aspects of different languages and platforms in the context of FLOSS for church use then perhaps we need to rethink our purpose.
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 12:09:11AM -0400, Dave Wagner wrote: > Perhaps I am too accustomed to living in the US and the kind of > democracy we have come to enjoy though. I just hate to see censorship > being used as a means to avoid conflict, it merely represses issues, > not addresses them. Also, I would rather enjoy being able to finish the > other discussion in a civil manner. I really feel a need to understand > why it seems the majority of this list is so dismissive of apposing > points of view (as far as programming matters go). It's the same reason > I stopped responding to this list so many months ago and it's only > being validated now. I'm not dismissive of .NET and I have not intended to appear so. I think .NET is a cool technology (I hate using the word technology to describe software, but oh well). It is that Microsoft through their actions appears very repugnant. With .NET in particular I guess it's not just a Microsoft thing anymore with .GNU and mono. It's a philosophical stance, but I'm hopelessly romantic and painfully idealistic. This doesn't mean that there cannot be a dialog. I adhere to my principles because I value them. I don't adhere to disliking Microsoft. Discussions are made of words and words can propagate misunderstanding. I humbly submit that some of my principles may be misguided and it has always been my policy to seek out the best principles when principles are needed. Deciding on a prefered language/platform cannot be just a judgement of technical merit. It is after all a preference. I prefer perl because it's very mature, flexible, and has a vast compliment of libraries and is also ubiquitous. Life would be a lot easier (at least for romantic idealists like me) if there were one language that satisfied everyone's needs. Justin _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
