Re: [Pan-users] Re: [OT] Software politics (was Re: Re: Questions about the next release)

2010-11-13 Thread Alan Meyer
Lacrocivious Acrophosist wrote: ... > Duncan's presence and constancy here is valued by many. ... Count me among them. And he has the most delightful way of sailing above a flame war with nary a feather singed while those below hose each other with napalm. -- Alan Meyer amey...@yahoo.com

Re: [Pan-users] Re: [OT] Software politics (was Re: Re: Questions about the next release)

2010-11-13 Thread Charles Kerr
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Lacrocivious Acrophosist wrote: > More importantly, now that Charles has moved on to other projects > and is loathe to spend more time on Pan's code, Just to make sure nobody misunderstands this... I don't loathe Pan at all. What happened is I drifted away from

Re: [Pan-users] Re: [OT] Software politics (was Re: Re: Questions about the next release)

2010-11-13 Thread Charles Kerr
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Lacrocivious Acrophosist wrote: > More importantly, now that Charles has moved on to other projects and is > loathe to spend more time on Pan's code, Duncan has become the > Institutional Memory of Pan. Duncan is the keel that keeps the Pan > project together. He

[Pan-users] Re: [OT] Software politics (was Re: Re: Questions about the next release)

2010-11-13 Thread Lacrocivious Acrophosist
Ron Johnson writes: > > So, because Samuel Pepys wrote run-on "pages" in literal chicken > scratch (I looked it up in Wikipedia) that makes it ok for Duncan to > do it? > > Your post is replete with fallacies. > I like Duncan's posts. I almost always learn something from them, and he is

Re: [OT] Software politics (was Re: [Pan-users] Re: Questions about the next release)

2010-11-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Ron Johnson wrote: Your uber-earnest Marx-like writing style (dude, that 11 line "paragraph" is ONE SENTENCE!) and use of emotionally-laded words like "servantware" belie your assertion that we all should make our own choices. As opposed to *your* choice of emotionally laden terms like the Naz

[Pan-users] Re: [OT] Software politics (was Re: Re: Questions about the next release)

2010-11-13 Thread Duncan
Ron Johnson posted on Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:54:16 -0600 as excerpted: > On 11/13/2010 11:08 AM, Duncan wrote: >> Steve Davies posted on Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:40:07 + as excerpted: >> >>> I particularly like the Servantware references... >> >> FWIW, I've been thinking, on and off, that I need to fi

Re: [OT] Software politics (was Re: [Pan-users] Re: Questions about the next release)

2010-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/13/2010 06:31 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/13/2010 11:08 AM, Duncan wrote: Steve Davies posted on Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:40:07 + as excerpted: I particularly like the Servantware references... FWIW, I've been thinking, on and off, that I need to figure out some

Re: [OT] Software politics (was Re: [Pan-users] Re: Questions about the next release)

2010-11-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/13/2010 11:08 AM, Duncan wrote: Steve Davies posted on Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:40:07 + as excerpted: I particularly like the Servantware references... FWIW, I've been thinking, on and off, that I need to figure out some reasonable way to explain that such references

[OT] Software politics (was Re: [Pan-users] Re: Questions about the next release)

2010-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/13/2010 11:08 AM, Duncan wrote: Steve Davies posted on Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:40:07 + as excerpted: I particularly like the Servantware references... FWIW, I've been thinking, on and off, that I need to figure out some reasonable way to explain that such references are a reflection of

[Pan-users] Re: Questions about the next release

2010-11-13 Thread Duncan
Steve Davies posted on Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:40:07 + as excerpted: > I particularly like the Servantware references... FWIW, I've been thinking, on and off, that I need to figure out some reasonable way to explain that such references are a reflection of my own ethics and value system and tha

[Pan-users] Re: Questions about the next release

2010-11-13 Thread Bob Henson
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:37:32 +, Duncan wrote: > > If pan's log says it can't find the dictionary, it's apparently loading > aspell itself or it wouldn't get to the point of complaining about a > missing dictionary. It still complains when Aspell itself isn't installed (just the dictionary)

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Questions about the next release

2010-11-13 Thread Steve Davies
On 12 November 2010 23:37, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > [big snip] > That made me laugh. Thank you for starting my Saturday morning so well :) I particularly like the Servantware references... If it helps, All my MicroServant software runs under VirtualBox on Linux and I work on 2 open-