FOSDEM: State of the GNUnion [LWN.net]

FOSDEM: State of the GNUnion

Posted Feb 8, 2013 18:04 UTC (Fri) by micka (subscriber, #38720)
In reply to: FOSDEM: State of the GNUnion by dlang
Parent article: FOSDEM: State of the GNUnion

OK, the end was a lame attempt at a joke, but you can't deny the fact that using a symbol that's completely lost for maybe 90 % of the target is a failure.

Before today, I had never ever heard about something named "liberty bell", what it symbolized etc. And I'm sure nobody around me did either.

And a last point. Some people think you can't criticize something when you don't have a bette proposition. That's simply not true, and I will never acknowledge this limitation.

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FOSDEM: State of the GNUnion

Posted Feb 10, 2013 18:52 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

> Some people think you can't criticize something when you don't have a bette[r] proposition.

While I wholeheartedly agree, those who use this retort must also realize that you are leaving the search and (possibly) the implementation to others and if they can't get something better, then maybe this really is the best it could be. (Some who respond with the above statement forget its implications; I'm just being pedantic.)