Re: on content versus presentation [ was: Re: Why the FreeBSD license will not be changing ]

2008-03-17 Thread Jason C. Wells
jonathan michaels wrote: it is easy to say i didn't know, but its harder to justify treating people like jcw did, as per example, i'm not picling on ou jason, your post and responce is teh best example of this process that i have seen since a few nolonger present in public freebsd community made

Re: on content versus presentation [ was: Re: Why the FreeBSD license will not be changing ]

2008-03-17 Thread jonathan michaels
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:14:29AM -0700, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Astrodog wrote: > > > Just as "I really enjoy drinking heavily then driving like Mario > > Andretti, Officer Smith" is much more understandable, and can be read > > faster than, > > "ireallyenjoydrinkingheavil

Re: on content versus presentation [ was: Re: Why the FreeBSD license will not be changing ]

2008-03-17 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, jonathan michaels wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 07:42:49AM -0500, Astrodog wrote: int func() { if (blah == 2) { otherfunc(blah2); return 0; } else { return 1; } } is MUCH easier to understand than: int func() {if(blah==2){otherfun

Re: on content versus presentation [ was: Re: Why the FreeBSD license will not be changing ]

2008-03-17 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Astrodog wrote: Just as "I really enjoy drinking heavily then driving like Mario Andretti, Officer Smith" is much more understandable, and can be read faster than, "ireallyenjoydrinkingheavilythendrivinglikemarioandrettiofficersmith" i really enjoy drinking heavily then

Re: on content versus presentation [ was: Re: Why the FreeBSD license will not be changing ]

2008-03-17 Thread jonathan michaels
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 07:42:49AM -0500, Astrodog wrote: > Dear god, this is sad. > > To all of you attacking the rules of capitalization, spelling and grammar... > > These rules exist to aid in allowing others to understand what you're > writing, much as style(9) exists to help make code more >

Re: on content versus presentation [ was: Re: Why the FreeBSD license will not be changing ]

2008-03-17 Thread Astrodog
Dear god, this is sad. To all of you attacking the rules of capitalization, spelling and grammar... These rules exist to aid in allowing others to understand what you're writing, much as style(9) exists to help make code more understandable. For example: int func() { if (blah == 2) {