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Oh come on
Oh come on
Posted Mar 10, 2005 11:20 UTC (Thu) by skarkkai (subscriber, #4128)In reply to: Oh come on by grantingram
Parent article: A big setback on software patents
I'll start off by partially agreeing with the comment I'm replying to: political and geographical insults are always a tad on the dangerous side.
However in this case, I personally didn't mind. I'm one of the smug European sneering-at-the-Americans developers. All of my coder friends, as far as I know, are too. As such, I feel the remark in the article was accurate.
Obviously, merely making a disparaging remark that is accurate wouldn't be okay. But I feel it's more okay when the behavior in question is not only insulting toward the maker of the remark, but also somewhat arrogant, childish and short sighted. And I believe the unbased arrogance was largely the point of the remark. It's a point so well made was that it was perhaps worth making.
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Sneering is a bad habit
Posted Mar 10, 2005 12:30 UTC (Thu) by davidw (subscriber, #947) [Link]
You're making a mistake when you get to the point where you think you've got all the answers and don't have anything to learn from the other guys. As an American living in Europe, I've frankly had my fill of sneering from all sides, be it Bush and his cronies or the other side here that seems to play a version of "7 degrees of separation" in order to link problems everywhere back to the US.
Ciao,
Dave