on 3/14/03 7:39 PM, Randal L. Schwartz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm offended on his behalf, because I *know* he doesn't read this > list. I'm also offended that you cc'ed my private email to the list > when my reply to you was private. Technically, that's a copyright > violation, and I could take you to court over that. > > You don't make fun of a man's name. Period. Especially if you > haven't met him. I've met him. His company has paid me a lot of > money over the years, and paid Larry Wall even more. Without him, > you'd have no reason to even have a mailing list to make fun of his > name. > > I feel sorry for you. Maybe you just haven't matured yet. That's > possible. I remember being younger and stupider than I am now. I > hope you'll take away from this the notion that sometimes there are > things you don't do, especially out of respect.
Hey Randal, with all due respect, I bought your books with my own money, not Tim O`Reilly's. Tim has distributed the money I paid to the authors of the books I've bought that he's published. Keep that in perspective, please. If not for the "stupider" people like myself, and "younger" people like Puneet, I seriously doubt your checks from Tim would amount to a "Lot" of money. And speaking of respect, no one in the "Perl community" has more than you Randal. I include myself among those who hold you in high regard. I've learned a lot from you. But after giving it some thought I have not been able to conceive of anything "To cause displeasure, anger, resentment, or wounded feelings in" Puneet's play on words with Tim's name. Witty? Sure. As in, "Oh really? Well I've learned something new again.". But not offensive. Nope, even I can't twist that one and I watch CNN and FOX News sometimes for fun. Elvis the Pelvis, Hank the Crank, Steve the "Woz", $Bill Luebkert. These guys didn't seem offended when someone made fun of their name. Are you sure Tom would be offended by Puneet's wit? In any case, I'm not. I'll repeat once again (and as often as necessary) that this list, the "Mac OS X Perl List" was started as a result of people responding with nasty and mean comments instead of answers and help to those (like me) who wrote legitimate questions or comments about Perl on OS X to the "MacPerl" and the "cgi-list" lists. Now, two years after this list was created, both of the above mentioned lists together generate less than 20% of the messages this one generates. I believe that part of the reason for that is because most who participate on this list have a keen sense of humor as well as a high level of tolerance. Finally, to keep this message on topic, I clicked on the "http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html"; link and, Puneet, thanks again for taking the time to relate something interesting to us on the list. I've learned a lot from you too. Kindest Regards, -- Bill Stephenson www.PerlHelp.com 1-417-546-5593
