On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:55:40PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:36:28AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > End users are rarely on my radar. Collaborative users, who > > help improve my software, and my system, and make things better all > > around, by finding bugs, making suggestions, providing patches -- > > them I'll nurture, again, from purely selfish, niggardly, ulterior > > motives. > > Perhaps, but are you really always so sure of your motives? You'd be an > exception with such unfaltering introspective abilities. It is impolite, to say nothing of rhetorically imprudent, to challenge Manoj's conceptions of himself. To be a little less oblique about it, is it highly presumptive to tell someone that you know their motivations better than they do. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Ignorantia judicis est calamitas branden@debian.org | innocentis. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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