On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 11:32:19AM -0700, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > I do, too. I like them both. I want them to stop fighting in public. I don't > care which one started it. I suppose it was Richard. It doesn't matter. Our > reputations as human beings will long outlive our reputations as coders.
Fighting in public is not nice. But sometimes nice takes a backseat to truth. Aside from any amusement value, I'm getting something real out of this thread: who sticks by their own principles and who doesn't is becoming clear to me. I judge people less by how much they agree with my own views than by how they adhere to their own. If I don't agree with someone but they stand by their principles then at least I know where they stand and that they have honor. So far, the rationale from rms is extremely murky at best, and *anything* less than *best* sounds outright hypocritical. So far, Theo's position is completely consistent. This is what I've taken away from this thread. This is important in both theory and practice. Theo is winning this on both ideological and pragmatic ground. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
