On Jan 8, 2011, at 5:18 PM, David Murn wrote: > On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 12:00 -0800, SteveC wrote: >> That's kind of interesting. Sold over what time period though? > > The article I posted gave figures (in both volume and $ sales) for > per-quarter periods, compared with other quarters in 2010 and the > previous year. > > >> "Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game.. > > I find this a very interesting response when the question asked of you > was: > > "*I* don't want to know who's using what 'phone; I wanted to know why > *you* wanted to know." > > Someone fairly and squarely asked the reason why youre surveying users > on this mailing list, a mailing list for a project that begins with > 'Open', and your response is to call it an argument with an anonymous > idiot?
No, I answered it several times, as did others. It was simple curiosity. My reply was to the trolling. > > Wouldnt it be easier (and less personally insulting) to simply give an > answer to the question everyone has politely asked you, or if youre > under some commercial-in-confidence agreement, then at least say so? > > You asked everyone here for their help with your project, then launch > into a tirade that everyone who enquired for more details about your > project, is a 'self-righteous sixteen-year-old posessing infinite > amounts of free time'. > > David > > Steve stevecoast.com _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk