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Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 07:17:47PM -0600, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Igor Peshansky wrote:
Open-source works by scratching your itch, not by getting someone
else to scratch it for you.
Actually getting someone else to scratch that itch sometimes does work!
Right! And, the perfect way to have the itch scratched is to claim
that you know better than everyone else, imply that people don't care
about the end-user experience, assert that you won't even bother
submitting a patch because it would be automatically rejected for no
good reason, rail about flaws in open source, ignore patient attempts
to explain how things work, and never give up in the face of logical
arguments, relying instead on repeating all of the above ad infinitum.
This technique is, apparently, a sure-fire way to get someone to do
something for you. We're just still in the ad infinitum stage. As soon
as that stage is over, someone will surely get to work on this crucial
patch.
I was being funny (and I did have a smiley though I don't see it in the
quote). You are apparently being sarcastic.
No that is not the perfect way as you describe, sarcasm aside. There are
ways to be gently persuasive ya know. Indeed often times just bringing
up a technical topic, even through a raging argument, spurs creative
solutions and engineers being what they are often get motivated to find
that solution (though perhaps not this bunch...;-)
BTW That last bit was intended to be a joke.
Was not! (Now you counter with "Was to" and we'll bat that back and forth
until one of us yells for Mom. ;-) )
I also made the observation that discussion can be persuasive, though the one
in this thread wasn't meeting that goal. I may be wrong but my guess is that
folks on this list do accept that discussion and persuasion are not mutually
exclusive.
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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