JTK wrote:
> Garth Wallace wrote:
<snip>
>>And if
>>you don't like it here, why stay?
>>
>>
>
> Because I feel it is my responsibility. Do you think doctors "like it
> here" when they're checking somebody for prostrate cancer, or elbow-deep
> in blood during surgery, or when all else fails, pulling the proverbial
> plug? Yet I have to assume that you would not be so presumptuous as to
> ask them "why stay?".
But you've already said "pull the plug" and the family said "No. You're
a quack. We have plenty of other doctors who think this patient is
getting healthier each day." And they are working on it everyday and it
is getting better every day. And you're chasing him out of the clinic
and into his home and insisting all the way that the plug should be
pulled.
There are developers with worldwide notariety and respect working on
this project that say you're wrong. They say you're wrong every day
they turn on their machines and make contributions to a project that
they believe to be personallyw orthwile, valuable to the open source
communities, necessary for the survivability of a healthy internet and
even a possible revenue generator.
I caught your trolling near the end and didn't read back very far
through your rants and flames nor do I intend to. And I won't engage any
further than this comment because it's obvious that you don't really
give a shit about the project or the community that develops it and your
delusions or knowing misrepresentations that you are somehow useful here
or that you have any responsibility for the helth of this project are
are either unfortunate or malicious -I couldn't care less which.
If you were really checking for prostate cancer or even performing
surgery (which you're most definitely not)then people here might respond
differently to your comments. But you're not doing anything of the
sort. You're insisting that the plug be pulled because it's too painful
for you to watch. We don't care that you have a weak stomach. We don't
care that our direction doesn't match up with what you think it ought to
be. Your responsibility?! Where do you get off claiming any
responsibility for any of the work that goes on here? Because you were
a loyal 4.x user? Somehow that binds you sufficiently to this project
that you feel it is your personal responsibility to convince us all that
it is time to give up and walk away and that we should listen to you?
Because you can't bear the pain of watching a project that doesn't
conform to your standards we shouldn't continue to work on it? You don't
owe us a diagnosis and we don't accept the one you're offering.
I hope that folks reading this thread find some entertainment value
here. There certainly isn't much useful information being exchanged.
If you're reading this and it isn't entertaining please walk away from
it. There are plenty of more valuable discussions.
--Asa
