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On 26.04.2013 12:34, Mark David Dumlao wrote: |
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> YES it is entirely about a few megabytes you don't like. A few |
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> megabytes that OTHER people choose to put on THEIR computers to NO |
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> effect on yours. |
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YES it is entirely about a software I don't like. If other people choose |
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to like the software is the problem of those people, but there is no way |
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other people can (may, dare) make me like it. Note that I do not force |
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other people to remove, avoid, or hate PA, nor do most others opposed to PA. |
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There may be a wagon of reasons why I don't like it, from its name to |
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its author's coding style to my experience with it 175 years ago, and |
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for me these are all fair reasons. If you have your fair reasons to use |
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it, please go ahead, but that doesn't imply that someone else is also |
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going to need it, accept it, like it, or stop criticizing it. We've got |
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freedom of speech, haven't we? ;-) |
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If you find my arguments inconclusive, neither do I find your arguments |
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"it won't harm, it will have no effect, etc". As for `technical |
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arguments`, much of them are as subjective as most non-technical |
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arguments (e.g. `true unix way`, or `coding style`, or `a few megabytes` |
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or `slowdown` as well as `NO effect` are all both technical and subjective). |
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In the end, I humbly believe it's up to me to judge what effect there is |
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for me on my computers. |
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Best wishes, |
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Yuri K. Shatroff |
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