Look, I said i retracted it.

I understand the position of being an active contributor all too well. The
reason you haven't heard much from me in the last 5 years, is because I lead
work on a massive free software project spanning over 4 million lines of
code.

This was a case of my emotions getting the better of me.

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]
> wrote:

>
> Am 19.06.2010 um 21:58 schrieb Thom Cherryhomes:
>
> forget i've mentioned anything. my outburst comes from years of listening
> to inane arguments coming out of this man's mouth for years.
>
>
> The reason I am answering is because I know him personally. He is amongst
> the handful people who actively *do* something to develop GNUstep. To be
> honest, I have never actively recognized your name here on this list or seen
> a contribution from you. While he is one of the most active.
>
> That does not mean that I do agree with all ideas and even long term goals,
> but that is what this list is for: discussion, finding pros and cons and
> solutions that try cover different needs.
>
> Nikolaus
>
>
> -Thom
>
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 19.06.2010 um 21:12 schrieb Thom Cherryhomes:
>>
>> Bad answer:
>>
>> Okay, that's it, I've had enough of you.
>>
>> I use it. You remove it, and I will choke you. I've sat back, and watched
>> your stance on virtually everything over the last several years, and quite
>> frankly, I am tired of your self centered viewpoint,
>>
>> and for fuck's sake, get some hardware made this century.
>>
>>
>> Good answer would have been:
>>
>> I deeply understand that you don't want to spend your unpaid, volunteer
>> time on features nobody is using. But I am heavily using this feature for
>> several years  and maybe others. So, I frankly volunteer to keep these parts
>> from bitrotting. What do I have to do to help you?
>>
>> -Thom
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am thinking of removing the Spatial Viewer from GWorkspace.
>>>
>>> It was added after a discussion on the mailing list long ago, it was a
>>> popular opinion.
>>>
>>> However I think it doesn't fit the NeXT paradigm well at all, I never use
>>> it and it adds code in GWorkspace that needs to be kept from bitrotting.
>>>
>>> Does anybody use it? Or otherwise feel good about it? Stand up and speak
>>> your defense!
>>>
>>>
>>> Riccardo
>>>
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>>>
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