19 Dec
2005
19 Dec
'05
1:06 a.m.
der Mouse, there are too many pronouns and not enough
attribution for
me to answer with confidence as I'm not sure what you mean.
Yes, I realize now that the way I wrote it, it reads as though I'm
conflating you with Dave.
I was saying - er, trying to say - that Dave's stance on his source
code has taken him down a few notches in my eyes (not as totally as
Tony's phrasing implies is the case for him, but certainly some).
I was also pointing out, in response to the "until you do it yourself,
you're just posturing" reply, that I have "done it myself" for a lot
of
other problems, but not that specific one.
Then I was asking whether that makes me the same kind of poseur that
Tony's remark apparently made him. In, um, your, I think, eyes.
Dave, for his own reasons, decided the time isn't
right for him to
release the source code. Would we be better off if he just sat on it
until that time?
Would we? I don't know. I can see arguments both ways.
But that has little to do with how his doing a binary-only release
affects my opinion of him, or whether my having that reaction means I'm
"just posturing". As far as I can see, at least.
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