>>>>> "Graham" == Graham Gudgin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Graham> I find it disturbing to see these guidelines being ignored by people Graham> who should know better - people who have a lot of respect within the Graham> Perl community. Such messages as (excerpted): If you had something to say to me, say it to me. And for the record, none of the list monitors thwapped my wrists on either of these, although they have done so in the past with other messages. Which suggests that you do not have the support of the list monitors on these two particular messages. Just thought you'd like to know. I have three hot buttons on this list (and any public forum): ripping people off with scams (like perl2exe), commercializing and hoarding products derived from open software (like what the poster was doing), and introducing security errors. I will raise *all* the flags I can when anything like that happens. I will not be nice. Being nice lets some people off the hook for these things that I hold sacred. If you don't want to see messages from me about those issues, better filter me now. Of course, you'll lose the 98 messages you want to see, because of the two messages you don't want to see because they aren't "nicey nice". Sorry about that, but that'd be your choice. Maybe I'm just in my grumbly mood this week. It's very likely... I've just wasted two days trying to figure out why my main laptop is randomly losing data under stress, and trying to get the backup laptop reconfigured to accept my backups, and it's giving me huge grief. Not to mention the recent court decision (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fors-announce/message/20) which makes me a felon for life. Yeah, I suppose getting that during the holidays might make one a bit grouchy. But I stand by what I said, especially on these issues. perl2exe sucks. Trying to hide software written in Perl from your customers sucks. And having that message out there is important to me. Some people here will cheer me on for holding the banner so high on those, no matter what the method. Others will find my manner offensive about it, and still others will even disagree with both the manner and the goal. Oh well, this is life. Just another Perl hacker, -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
