> -----Original Message----- > From: Glen Mazza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- "Andreas L. Delmelle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm not too fond of this type of arguments: > > everybody/nobody else is doing it, so why > > shouldn't/should we... > > Hey, I like that argument! For example, no other > Apache project is implementing the XSL standard, so > why should we?!? Oh...on second thought, I see your > point. ;)
:) Yeah, OT: My point is actually that it's exactly that kind of thinking that leads people to all sorts of herd-mentality crap, conformist BS and the likes (if you're not too sensitive, not too easily offended, see some examples way below) In short: Nobody seems to think things through anymore, so why should I bother? > But if the developers of the other teams involved are > quite experienced and preside over successful > projects, I frequently defer to their judgment. I won't argue with this. Just use with caution: sometimes people can be 'blinded by experience' --in the sense of: being so used to doing things the wrong way, and actually continually succeeding in that fashion, that they are 'shaped' to never even consider what is actually sane. > +0, if you wish to do it. -0 with a manpage. But I > still think our future will be with Docbook > documentation. Well, if we decide on doing so, it's certainly not top-priority ATM. Let's get this baby walking first, before we buy it a pair of hiking-boots. > Personally speaking, it has been wonderful during my day job > (which is a lovely 2000 miles away right now ;), our technical > writer picked it up very quickly and has been very efficient/quick > with it. Even prefers it over Microsoft Word. *Even* ... Microsoft Word (--which 'everybody' uses?) 'Nuff said. :)) Greetz, Andreas Everybody is drinking twenty bottles and mixing it with a cocktail of illegal drugs, so I should too... Everybody goes to a shrink to whine about their miserable excuse for a life and get a prescription for anti-depressants, so maybe I should try it too... Everybody is blowing up buildings and killing innocent people to get their point across, so I should definitely try it too... Everybody is wearing a nazi t-shirt and shaving their head, so I should too... Damn', now they're all settling down, all wearing a suit-and-tie, all venting their aggression caused by the frustration of having to work for a boss who's an utter nitwit and not being able to speak up about it --since nobody does that-- in the weekend, when bashing some cops if their favourite soccer-team loses (or wins, no matter)... well, here I go then :) Everybody has their own crappy, amateuristic, exhibitionist website with links to all sorts of boring stuff, pictures of their ugly self, wife and mongrel-dog, so I should too... Hmm... come to think of it, since everybody seems to have a mongrel-dog, I should get one too --As for the ugly wife? Well, it's an option to be considered. At least, so everybody keeps saying...
