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People's reaction to this is just stupid.

People's reaction to this is just stupid.

Posted Nov 19, 2009 19:16 UTC (Thu) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020)
In reply to: People's reaction to this is just stupid. by drag
Parent article: Fedora 12 lets unprivileged users install packages

"This thing is starting to piss me off."

Well, that could be because you are WRONG and too proud to admit it (even to yourself). Take some time to cool down and then read the posts here and in the Fedora bug and entertain the possibility that everyone who disagrees with you is not necessarily an idiot.


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People's reaction to this is just stupid.

Posted Nov 19, 2009 23:53 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Of course I could be wrong. I am frequently wrong about a lot of things. Nothing surprises me.

But the discussion is irritating because most of the initial responses were blatantly incorrect in a large amounts of their assumptions and made discussing the thing almost impossible. They didn't even take time to think. It violated some unthinking beliefs in what makes a secure system and they objected it simply by appearance only.

Also I know that just because you have a minority opinion with you does not make you wrong. Also there is no reason to believe that if a group of people are very loud in their opinions and objections that they are in the majority. There is no such thing as a democracy or popularity/loudness scale in the reality of right or wrong.

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