Dave Newton wrote:
Jonathan Revusky wrote:

Maybe that's what you meant to say but you didn't have the intestinal
fortitude to say it so you posted the asinine stuff about a patch.


Oooo! Me! Me! Pick me!

Put up or shut up!

I'm leaning towards the "shut up" myself, but that didn't work years ago
on the Velocity list, either :/

Let's get some first principles clear here. I do not owe you anything.
I have no recollection of ever having incurred an obligation to you or
your colleagues in any way whatsoever.


Hey, guess what--the Struts committers don't owe _us_ anything, either!


James was very insistently asking me why I didn't work on this or that. He was talking quite literally like I owed him something. And that was when I pointed out that I didn't owe him anything.

I was not asking James for anything.

Well, I did suggest that he "owed" me a "thank you". But that's more to do with basic graciousness and so on.



But James, here is how a well brought up adult reacts when somebody
offers him something.

He says "thank you".


Not if I offer anthrax or a kick in the nards... really depends on what
is being offered and how.

Even then you might as well say "No, thank you." It's better to be polite. :-)


Jonathan Revusky
--
lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/





This public thread has fostered some private correspondence where
people  just say stuff to me like: "My god what a disastrous state
this Struts project is in". There are a lot of people who think this.


There are a lot of people that think you're a dork, too, as evidenced by
_my_ mailbox, including a couple of folks that remember the Velocity
list BS, too.


Note that, given your behavior, if I did once care, by this point, I
would have given this up as a lost cause and not care any more. That
much is for sure.


So you don't care and are participating in your own mental masturbation?


The interesting question is why anybody would offer you guys anything
at all. Basically, the lot of you behave like an ungracious, ill-bred
bunch of punks.


Towards you and a few select others, perhaps. It isn't really the
prevalent attitude, though.


This is already getting too long.


That, at least, is indisputable.

Dave


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