Comment RedHat FUDmasters start to be annoying! (Score 1) 175
If someone is risking to be shot or or imprisoned for what they say here they either live in a society they should work to turn around (not wasting time here) or they shouldn't say it.
I have never even gotten an e-mail due to my postings here.
Somebody complained he got several threats of murder after a posting (to a political topic).
I am fiercely against discrimination people (here: their opinion) because of their origin, profession or preference (e.g. Windows background etc.). Works should be judged by the results, statements by the quality of the arguments. Judging people by the name (or their willingness to make them public) in unacceptable to me. If somebody gives his name, I tend to trust the facts more, but whenever an argument is based on logic and reason, the name is entirely irrelevant. Linking this to a name seems to me a sign of intolerance and prejudices. The internet offers freedom of speech even to those who would otherwise do not dare use it. Anonymity is a privilige, not a stigma.
This is of course my personal opinion. Others, who value personal integrity (which you would assume under a name) more than logic and reason, may have a different one.
So we might prefer to 'agree to disagree' on that matter.
My 'attitude' isn't anymore unnecessary than anything you want to raise your voice against. Such as your questioning about why GNOME isn't using KOM/OpenParts - the users and the developers will choose what they prefer, so your attitude is unnecessary. Voila.
This is a bad comparison: It is absolutely necessary to discuss which object model Gnome will be using, as (potentially) millions of users will be affected.
If Gnome's object model is compatible to KDE's, we will have overcome the borders of the desktops nearly immediately, resulting in a highly competitive environment with many choices (choice meaning not just running parallel, but embedded within each other).
If the object models remain incompatible, we've lost the last chance of 'reuniting' the project on a high level, while remaining the individual character of each. Much time would go into reimplementing apps for the other project, and commercial software vendors would have to choose one (or they'll simply not implement any distributed object technology at all). The best we could posibly get are memory-consuming wrappers to make the two models speak to each other.
To sum it up, the comfort of many users, and perhaps the future of the free Unix desktop is at stake, so I'd hardly call this discussion unnecessary. Once the decision is made, the *users* can't make a decision anymore. They have to accept the fact that they can't use KFormula within Gnumeric.
And, believe me, users would always choose the compatible solution!
I have never even gotten an e-mail due to my postings here.
Somebody complained he got several threats of murder after a posting (to a political topic).
I am fiercely against discrimination people (here: their opinion) because of their origin, profession or preference (e.g. Windows background etc.). Works should be judged by the results, statements by the quality of the arguments. Judging people by the name (or their willingness to make them public) in unacceptable to me. If somebody gives his name, I tend to trust the facts more, but whenever an argument is based on logic and reason, the name is entirely irrelevant. Linking this to a name seems to me a sign of intolerance and prejudices. The internet offers freedom of speech even to those who would otherwise do not dare use it. Anonymity is a privilige, not a stigma.
This is of course my personal opinion. Others, who value personal integrity (which you would assume under a name) more than logic and reason, may have a different one.
So we might prefer to 'agree to disagree' on that matter.
My 'attitude' isn't anymore unnecessary than anything you want to raise your voice against. Such as your questioning about why GNOME isn't using KOM/OpenParts - the users and the developers will choose what they prefer, so your attitude is unnecessary. Voila.
This is a bad comparison: It is absolutely necessary to discuss which object model Gnome will be using, as (potentially) millions of users will be affected.
If Gnome's object model is compatible to KDE's, we will have overcome the borders of the desktops nearly immediately, resulting in a highly competitive environment with many choices (choice meaning not just running parallel, but embedded within each other).
If the object models remain incompatible, we've lost the last chance of 'reuniting' the project on a high level, while remaining the individual character of each. Much time would go into reimplementing apps for the other project, and commercial software vendors would have to choose one (or they'll simply not implement any distributed object technology at all). The best we could posibly get are memory-consuming wrappers to make the two models speak to each other.
To sum it up, the comfort of many users, and perhaps the future of the free Unix desktop is at stake, so I'd hardly call this discussion unnecessary. Once the decision is made, the *users* can't make a decision anymore. They have to accept the fact that they can't use KFormula within Gnumeric.
And, believe me, users would always choose the compatible solution!
