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After you tip your hand...

Posted Nov 19, 2003 21:48 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (subscriber, #755)
In reply to: After you tip your hand... by coriordan
Parent article: Thomas Bushnell is no longer Hurd maintainer

> but lets not all point out where the strongman stumbled.

And why not, sirrah? That seems to be a not unreasonable description of your common attitude
when posting here on such topics, IMHO...


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After you tip your hand...

Posted Nov 19, 2003 22:01 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

hmmm, I was trying to highlight the suddenly-righteous *tone* of some people that point out his failings.

I didn't want to include the whole Roosevelt quote in my comment, but the intended point was that one mistake doesn't change that he's been busting his ass for twenty years to give us freedom.

After you tip your hand...

Posted Nov 20, 2003 20:17 UTC (Thu) by bex (guest, #16960) [Link]

isn't pointing out errors or sometimes a way to do something better what open source development is about? If no-one bothered to try and make things better then it wouldn't get much better. I'm not attacking anyone here, just pointing something out.

After you tip your hand...

Posted Nov 20, 2003 23:57 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

(My previous post was meant to be the answer to this question, so I mustn't have been clear again)
I agree with what you say. We must point out problems, acknowledge them, think of solutions, implement solutions, etc. But ten people just jumping up and down saying "Ha! see, stallman made a mistake", is no good.

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