Rick Moen <[email protected]> writes:

> Quoting Trent W. Buck ([email protected]):
>> Rick Moen <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>> > To paraphrase Jamie Zawinski's 1992 comment on Unix-Haters about
>> > sed: 'Some people, when confronted with a networking problem, think
>> > "I know, I'll use NetworkManager."  Now, they have two problems.'
>> 
>> I'm also a fan of
>> http://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/04/the-awful-thing-about-getting-it-right-the-first-time-is-that-nobody-realizes-how-hard-it-was/
>> and http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
>
> A couple of years ago, I ran into Luis Villa (attorney for Wikimedia
> Foundation) at an EFF event in San Francisco, and he quickly 'fessed up
> to having been the CADT.  He's an intelligent commentator and very
> worthwhile person, who acknowledges that Jamie had a (limited) good
> point, albeit he claims Jamie played a bit fast and loose with the facts
> and arguably didn't draw quite the right conclusions:
> http://lu.is/blog/2014/03/28/i-am-the-cadt-and-advice-on-needinfoing-old-bugs-en-masse/
>
> FWIW, Morten Welinder says Luis's recollection is faulty, and _he_ was
> the CADT:  http://blogs.gnome.org/mortenw/2014/03/29/no-i-am-the-cadt/

I don't think "there can be only one"...

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