Re: straw men and personal attacks
Re: straw men and personal attacks
- Subject: Re: straw men and personal attacks
- From: Matt Deatherage <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:14:53 -0500
On 8/23/05 at 10:20 AM, Martin Orpen <email@hidden> wrote:
> Are you confusing me with Matt Deatherage? It was he who suggested
> that only people who had written apps with as many lines of code as
> the Finder are capable of criticising the Finder.
It's a lot easier to argue when you change my words to match what you
wish I'd said, instead of quoting what I actually said. To wit:
On 8/18/05 at 1:24 PM, Matt Deatherage <email@hidden> wrote:
> (No, you don't have to be a top-class programmer to qualify to find
> and report a bug in the Finder, but if you're going to accuse the
> programmers or the company of being "pathetic" or exercising
> deliberate malfeasance, then have some evidence to back your claims
> [...] .)
(Emotionally charged acronym that apparently left nothing but to wage
terrible war deleted)
I think the (as you pointed out, PGP-signed) statement "you don't have
to be a top-class programmer to qualify to find and report a bug in the
Finder" largely eliminates your idea that I "suggested that only people
who had written apps with as many lines of code as the Finder are
capable of criticising the Finder."
(The message was PGP signed because, as it turns out, PGP 9.0.2's default set of rules signs messages to mailing lists with "-users" in the name. I've since disabled that rule. I didn't realize in advance it would sign the message.)
I apologize to the other members of the list if this spurs more useless
arguing, but I'm old-fashioned: When someone attributes to me a
concept I did not advance, I like to see it corrected.
--Matt
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Matt Deatherage <email@hidden>
GCSF, Incorporated <http://www.macjournals.com>
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