On Fri 30 Aug 2019 at 07:47:09 -0000, Curt wrote: > On 2019-08-28, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@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.
