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On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Barry Schwartz |
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<chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Am I to understand that you are an actual academic and yet consider |
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> this kind of speech a reasonable discussion of technical issues? |
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I just said that this thread has *seriously* lacked on technical |
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arguments. I haven't made almost any technical argument, because |
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basically all the discussion has been around conspiracy theories about |
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"evil figures" (not my words), for "profit" companies (again, not my |
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words), and the infallibility of the Unix "philosophy", in which this |
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field apparently the arguments "go round and round, however, and never |
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change"... again, not my words, *yours* actually. |
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*You* call *that* "a reasonable discussion of technical issues"? |
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> It is more like an exchange between political candidates or lawyers in |
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> a courtroom. |
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I agree. But I just started participating in this thread to expose a |
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blatantly false claim, that GNOME has systemd as hard dependency. All |
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that has followed (except for a few precious good comments from Rich |
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and others), has been like you have described, "an exchange between |
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political candidates or lawyers in a courtroom". |
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You in particular ignored my comment about why vertical integration, |
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non-portability, and binary formats have its merits. |
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> This is why I don’t even bother to explain how fontconfig is ruining |
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> everything, even though I can do so in exquisite detail. |
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No offense, but I do not care about your opinion on fontconfig or |
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programming languages with built-in provisions against buffer |
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overflows. However, I would *love* to discuss, in a reasonable way, |
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about the merits and weakness of systemd. |
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So bring it on. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |