On Wednesday 10 December 2014 18:08:00 Martin Read wrote: > On 10/12/14 13:26, Marty wrote: > > On 12/08/2014 09:12 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Monday 08 December 2014 13:18:18 Marty wrote: > >>> I would even deign to > >>> give users a choice in the matter, > >> > >> [snip] > >> > >>> Multi-seat PC and other > >>> anachronisms probably have to go away. > >> > >> Choice??? > >> > >> Lisi > > > > The industry and its plans for FOSS is strongly anti-choice: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-January/msg00861.h > >tml > > It appears to me that you have missed a point which seems to be implied > by Lisi's choice of selective quotes.
It was certainly intended to be! > On the one hand, you say "I would even deign to give users a choice in > the matter", and on the other you suggest making functionality that real > people are using on real computers "go away". Quite. "Choice" means "everyone must have what I want"; not "everyone must be able to choose". Infinite choice is in the end not possible. But let us at least try to be honest and avoid hypocrisy. Lisi > By all means, embark on your endeavour in creating alternatives to > D-Bus. Just remember that to be a convincing alternative, it has to > solve *at least* the same set of problems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201412110702.57330.lisi.re...@gmail.com
