At 7:09 PM +0200 3/29/06, Jonathan Revusky wrote:
Joe Germuska wrote:
At 5:30 PM +0200 3/29/06, Jonathan Revusky wrote:
It has some clear implications too. No matter how you shake it,
the two things were technical *competitors*. Normally, the Struts
people should be about as happy to say that Webwork is better as
to have a tooth pulled. So if they say it...
Here you ascribe an outlook on things to "the Struts people" which
assumes that your motivations are theirs.
Frankly, this is inaccurate for me. I see open source software as
cooperative, not competitive, even between projects.
LOL.
Well, Joe, wouldn't a casual observer say that you are taking this
position because your team lost the technical competition?
Some might; some might not. Whether or not they said it wouldn't
mean it was correct.
Of course, you'd expect the losers to rationalize things saying it
wasn't *really* a competition.
No. You would expect this. I would not.
So your assertion that "it hasn't hurt anyone" is quite debatable.
By leveraging the extra placement and visibility advantages of ASF
to promote an inferior body of work, you have been breathing the
oxygen of an innovative project that really was doing the real work
of pushing forward the state of the art.
See, I am not doing any of these things. I'm just a person who has a
job to do, and I choose to work with others to help me get this job
done. Everything else you have written is your own window dressing
on the situation.
But if you think these guys like Patrick and Jason aren't
ego-driven, surely you're kidding yourself. Just as you'd be kidding
yourself if you think Craig, say, isn't extremely ego-driven. None
of these people, as far as I can see, make the slightest attempt
even to hide it.
Frankly, I don't care what their motivations are.
But, Joe, I think that, most poeple, in their heart of hearts, don't
believe this kind of line. It's a bunch of politically correct
drivel really. Get real.
I just thought I should point out that for all of your self-assured
declarations about how the world works, you are not necessarily
right. You can try to speak for "most people", but you don't speak
for me.
Really,
Joe
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