Re: udev being an ass
On Fri 30 Aug 2019 at 07:47:09 -0000, Curt wrote:
> On 2019-08-28, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> >
> > If you can't say something constructive Brian, please just stfu. I won't
> > claim to speak for the rest of the list, but I am damned tired of your
> > negative attitude. You have, I assume the same clothes to get glad in
> > that you got mad in. Use them.
>
> In your defense I'll say that your negativity is infrequently, if ever,
> *ad hominem*, and udev, brltty et. al. are all inanimate things, not
> animate beings, the former being incapable of taking umbrage at being
> the target of diverse epithets, as they are, like rocks, lacking in all
> sensibility (despite the inane OT babbling of the AI bullshit artists of
> the group, and not to mention the self-righteous assholes who hijack
> legitimate threads from the /blind/ without compunction, for whom I will
> save my personal indignation, thank you very much*).
A different view is espoused at
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2019/08/msg00161.html
> Personally, I'd be happy if people would just stop hating on any free
> software in general. Even buggy free software is someone's effort,
> released into the world hopefully for our benefit. These conversations
> would be so much easier to have if they were framed in terms of costs and
> benefits, different use cases, and personal preferences, rather than
> making supposedly-objective statements grounded in strong personal
> opinions about the merits or worthlessness of some piece of software.
--
Brian.
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