On 10/27/05, cono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I saw a message from you passing swifty to my bin ;-) You wrote that you > do indeed support OOo. Well, no doubt about that from me. > > As I see your role: you want to prevent people from being to naive, > eye-shelved, optimistic, unrealistic etc. > Doing that ís important, and even necessary one in a while. > > However, the way you play that role, is upsetting people so regularly, > coasing misunderstanding as well, that you will miss the target. IMHO, > of course. > So a waste of time, and maybe even worse. > Hope you understand what I mean. Maybe you can play it a little bit > different?
You don't think spreading FUD about MS causes people to get upset? It upsets me. It upsets me for 2 reasons. 1 - I just generally don't like dishonesty. 2 - It makes OOo and/or Open Source look foolish. FLOSS claims MS does nothing but make crappy software and spread FUD about the competition. I think that portarying a very unrealistic view of MS puts FLOSS into the same boat. The big difference is, MS doesn't have much to prove - they are already on top. Many see and portary FLOSS has being the "ethical" choice or having some sort of moral advantage over Microsoft. Well, I think they lose that advantage when they start lying about Microsoft and lying about what their software can do. I also get upset (since you claimed that is what I do) by people constantly claiming I have some sort of learning disability, or that I can't "grasp simple concepts like..." fill in the blank. Just because I don't agree with you, doesn't mean I don't understand what you believe. I completely understand people's misguided hopes in ODF. But, obviously, I don't agree with them. That doesn't mean I don't understand them - I just don't share them. I hate to keep "tooting my own horn" like I did with that message you just trashed, but I feel the need to defend myself. I actually have a documented genius level IQ. I'm in the 99th percentile. I don't have any kind of learning disability, and I am perfectly capable of abstract thinking. My intelligence is not determined by the level to which I agree with Ian or Daniel or the project. And I'm sick and tired of it being labeled as such. Anyway, I am going to look at the way I interact with the lists... But I won't change my opinions just to fit in, nor will I back down from thinking that honesty is the best policy. But m tactics may not be the most effective. -Chad Smith
