On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Ben Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Mon Apr 05 16:23:54 -0400 2010: > >> >> > Anyone that would take offense at the comment is someone that's easily >> >> > offended in general... >> >> ie: "if someone gets offended, it's THEIR fault, not the speaker". >.... > > Had Dago specified someone/something personal then yes, someone could > rightly take _insult_ at such a statement. That is clearly not the > case here. >
perhaps I wasnt being clear in my choice of words earlier. I dont think that Dago's remark was directed at any one person in general. I dont believe it was a "personal attack" on anyone. That being said, there's more than one way to cause insult. Some 3rd party examples, that may or may not resonate with you: When Sun decided, many years ago, to drop solaris x86, I felt insulted, as a customer. When Oracle decided recently, to limit licensing of solaris to no longer be 100%, all the time, and require a support contract for ALL deployments, I felt insulted, as a customer. A remark, or action, does not have to be directed at a specific person, to cause "insult" to a customer. To state it in a more directly relevant fashion: When a business, or organization, says, "the way that you choose to run your IT department, is stupid/dumb/obsolete/'hated' "... That Is Insulting. And that was what happened here. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
