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On 2/7/02 10:34, "Colter Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now given the two, and the similarity of the names, and we already know that
> the author's not the brightest guy in the world (for not adhering to the
> terms of the GPL), I think he just screwed up and picked the wrong name for
> his program.
Allow me to issue a clarification/retraction. One of the limitations of
email is that tongue-in-cheek humor and friendly jibes tend to not come
across as the author intended. Normally, I'm fairly aware of this.
However, I'm currently enduring the "mild flu-like symptoms" of receiving a
Twinrix vaccination yesterday. Please bear with my muddled mind.
I did not state that Justin "[isn't] the brightest guy in the world (for not
adhering to the terms of the GPL)" out of a sense of spite -- that same
spirit by which third-graders point out each others' foibles to the teacher.
I meant it in the sense that perhaps he wasn't realizing the stifling effect
it has when you use open-source code and don't contribute your modifications
back to the community. It stops the symbiotic growth. Reading back through
it now, I see how it probably came across that I was calling him a stupid
idiot. And like the thousand feathers scattered to the winds, there is no
way I can convince anyone of my original intentions, especially since I then
built on that reference and said "he just screwed up and picked the wrong
name". Again, inconvincibly tongue-in-cheek.
For those couple days where I had Proteus and Prometheus confused, I thought
it was a very clever name. I perceived it as something of a tongue-in-cheek
jab at Fire, but that didn't bother me. It was a cool name. Right up there
with what I'm guessing is the etymology of Fire: taken from the sequence
"Ready, AIM, Fire".
I do not have a problem with Proteus. I use it when I'm testing Fire. When
I recently asked someone on the firelist to define "better" (in regards to
Proteus) I was asking for which aspects of Proteus the poster felt were
better than Fire so that I could get feedback on parts of Fire's UI that he
felt were lacking. I hope that it didn't come across as a sarcastic barb.
My previous email was sent before I had a chance to realize how it might
come across to someone else. It was entirely a lapse of judgment on my
part. I was in the wrong. Justin, you have my sincere apologies for any
slight it may have conveyed and I humbly seek your forgiveness.
Colter
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