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Re: Setup Prop: Change percent to underscore


Robert Collins wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 11:17, M. Evans wrote:
>> I admire Cygwin a great deal but that's bull.  Nobody but Cygwin uses
>> the % sign.
>
> Thats a hasty generalization
> http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/hasty-generalization.html.
>
>>  And
>> even if you guys were right (which you are not)
>
> You haven't shown Max or I to be making false statements. Claiming we
> are wrong does not make us wrong.
> http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/burden-of-proof.html

Thanks Robert! I couldn't have said that better myself.

>> you should be more
>> polite.
>
> In what way have we been rude?

Yes, please explain. I do not see "We do not see it as our responsibility to
work around other people's buggy software." as being rude.

Max.


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