OSS Advocacy (was - Re: A Wheeler by anyother name...)

2003-03-16 Thread Sherm Pendley
Okay, the point's been made. Puneet made a rude comment, and was less than courteous when he posted a public reply to Randal's private email. If we're all done spanking him for it, can we get back to his real question? On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 01:52 PM, Puneet Kishor wrote: I was looking

Re: A Wheeler by anyother name...

2003-03-16 Thread Robin
I love these kinds of threads, everything reduced to black and white. while we're at it, can anyone suggest * a good text editor for editing perl scripts? * a decent OS * who should be running Apple * which is the most secure version of Unix * which is the least secure version of Unix * why the

Re: A Wheeler by anyother name...

2003-03-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Dan == Dan Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dan A few seem to have missed the fact that Randal sent a private message Dan to Puneet. This isn't acceptable regardless of the point, context, or Dan argument. It should have remained private. The rest is between them. For clarification, the this

Re: A Wheeler by anyother name...

2003-03-16 Thread Dan Brian
Dan A few seem to have missed the fact that Randal sent a private message Dan to Puneet. This isn't acceptable regardless of the point, context, or Dan argument. It should have remained private. The rest is between them. For clarification, the this isn't acceptable was Puneet's reposting of my

Re: A Wheeler by anyother name...

2003-03-15 Thread Lou Moran
On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 08:39 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: I feel sorry for you. Maybe you just haven't matured yet. That's possible. I remember being younger and stupider than I am now. I hope you'll take away from this the notion that sometimes there are things you don't do,

Re: A Wheeler by anyother name...

2003-03-15 Thread Chris Nandor
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: I'm also offended that you cc'ed my private email to the list when my reply to you was private. Technically, that's a copyright violation, and I could take you to court over that. It technically isn't, as it is

Re: A Wheeler by anyother name...

2003-03-15 Thread Bruce Van Allen
On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 12:25 PM, Chris Nandor wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: You don't make fun of a man's name. Period. That is your opinion, it is not a rule, and stating it as a rule doesn't make it one. Your Jedi mind tricks

Re: A Wheeler by anyother name...

2003-03-15 Thread Jeff Lowrey
At 2:03 PM -0800 3/15/03, Bruce Van Allen wrote: The conclusion, I thought, was the same as in many other communities: out of respect for others, whether they be prominent publishers, accomplished programmers, earnest novices, cloaked gamers, or even clueless FAQ-ignorers, one addresses and

Re: A Wheeler by anyother name...

2003-03-15 Thread Ward W. Vuillemot
1. I appreciate all the spam on this...makes me feel like I am in Hawaii. 2. Whatever happened to giving ppl the benefit of the doubt? That is to say, would it have been sufficient for the people in question who questioned the usage or play-on-words to have written a short email directly to

Re: A Wheeler by anyother name...

2003-03-15 Thread Nathan Torkington
And if anyone's wondering What Would Tim Do?, I think Tim would want this thread to end so we can get back doing actual work with Perl on Mac OS X. Nat

Re: A Wheeler by anyother name...

2003-03-15 Thread Ken Williams
On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 05:13 PM, Nathan Torkington wrote: And if anyone's wondering What Would Tim Do?, I think Tim would want this thread to end so we can get back doing actual work with Perl on Mac OS X. Well, before putting this thread to bead, shouldn't someone first comment on the

A Wheeler by anyother name...

2003-03-14 Thread Puneet Kishor
I was looking for material on (justifying) Opensource. Besides the usual suspects (Tim Oh Really and the Gnu and FSF folks), I came across http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html I am guessing this is not *our* David Wheeler but someone else with the same name. interesting reading and more

Re: A Wheeler by anyother name...

2003-03-14 Thread Puneet Kishor
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Puneet == Puneet Kishor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Puneet I was looking for material on (justifying) Opensource. Besides the Puneet usual suspects (Tim Oh Really and the Gnu and FSF folks), If that's meant to be funny, it's not. If it's because you don't

Re: A Wheeler by anyother name...

2003-03-14 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Puneet == Puneet Kishor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Puneet Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Puneet == Puneet Kishor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Puneet I was looking for material on (justifying) Opensource. Besides the Puneet usual suspects (Tim Oh Really and the Gnu and FSF folks), If that's meant

Re: A Wheeler by anyother name...

2003-03-14 Thread Lorin Rivers
On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 07:22 PM, Puneet Kishor wrote: Jeez Randal, That _was_ meant to be funny. Q: How many name of fanatic group here does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: That's not funny -- Lorin Rivers Marketing Professional mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/lrivers