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Re: ["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>] Re: apt-get



phil@bolthole.com (Philip Brown) writes:

> > Stephen has a tendency to produce flamebait on this and other topics
> > with regularity. Apparently his job as an economic policy consultant
> > leaves him with lots of free time.
> 
> are you saying
> 
> a) his message wasn't written 100% "politely", so I'm ignoring it
> b) it's from him, so I'm ignoring it
> c) the things he said just aren't true
> 
> I''m hoping it is c. Because I think the issues he raised are something
> that debian should be concerned about.

A, B, and C.  A, because there are maybe three bug reports (some of
them already fixed) in there wrapped up in several paragraphs of
inflamatory rhetoric.  B, because I know attempting to "discuss
issues" this with Stephen would get nowhere, and take a shitload of
time.  And C, because many of the statements he made are false or just
plain confused.

As someone else pointed out already, if you can salvage some real
problems from that article, please write them up in an intelligable
manner.

-- 
Craig Brozefsky                      <craig@red-bean.com>
Free Scheme/Lisp Software  http://www.red-bean.com/~craig
"Hiding like thieves in the night from life, illusions of 
oasis making you look twice.   -- Mos Def and Talib Kweli



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