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Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> posted |
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20071129053854.GD11249@supernova, excerpted below, on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 |
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21:38:54 -0800: |
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> In fact, I believe exactly the opposite. What we want to create are |
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> basic philosophies to guide us. Nailing down a million tiny details is |
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> what makes things not fun, and what makes them impossible to learn. |
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> We're not trying to write a specification here, we're trying to come up |
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> with a set of guidelines that people could actually learn and remember. |
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OK, so you are deliberately going for the "big brush strokes" general |
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guideline approach, and don't /want/ the policy getting into details. I |
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can respect that and will need to go back and reread the discussion to |
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date with that in mind. |
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Meanwhile, you still sidestepped the other question. Maybe it's getting |
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too detailed also, but if so, directly saying so to that point would be |
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nice, and if you just missed it, maybe this'll bring it to point: |
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Something must have motivated you to present this now. What was it, or |
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to put it a different way, how would have things been different in your |
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view had this policy been in effect? Point to other examples as well if |
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you believe they'll help clarify the effect you intend this policy to |
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have. |
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(BTW, I'm mailing you directly related to this as well.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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