20 Dec
2005
20 Dec
'05
1:04 a.m.
Ah, so he's just supposed to sit there and take
it?
Well, you know, he *might* even actually *listen* to some of it.
When all else fails, of course.
Not all criticism is pointless mudsliging. There *are* reactions other
than "well then I'm going to take my marbles and go home, so there!"
and just sitting there and "taking" (more accurately, "ignoring") it.
For example, he could have said "thanks for pointing that out; I still
come down on the side of not releasing source". Or he could have said
"thanks for pointing that out; it tips the balance the other way for
me". Or he could have composed a rebuttal. Or....
Or, of course, he could have just deleted the mail and quietly gone
ahead and done what he was going to do anyway. What we say and think
about him matters to him only as much as he lets it.
[...], and after Dave said he would release the source
when he was
good and ready to (his right, I might add, and even though he doesn't
have to justify why he wants it that way, he did),
His *right*, feh. People have a right to do a huge variety of things,
a number of them positively antisocial. This isn't about rights and
never has been; everyone who's mentioned rights, as far as I've seen,
agrees on them. It's about our various opinions of Dave, or more
precisely of his release policy for IamgeDisk, and his reactions to
them.
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