I agree with Marc - "it's hopeless" We live in a world where spin is
king. Anything you say can and will be twisted against you.
On 12/17/10 9:39 AM, Marc Espie wrote:
quoted text > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 08:59:13AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>>> This is not to point finger at Theo for creating all this commotion, of course;
>>> this commotion can, however, be, an unintended accident, but the fact that
>>> it came from Theo gave it a lot of credibility.
>> Whoa, wait a second here. If you think I gave it credibility, you
>> need to go back and read my words again. I called it an allegation,
>> and I stick with that. I was extremely careful with my words, and you
>> are wrong to interpret them as you do.
> Theo, it's hopeless. Kids these days. Can't read, can't code.
>
> If you write anything, you can be certain they will take it out of context.
> They don't understand what a context is.
>
> Heck, they will use the excuse that they're "not native speakers" to say
> they misunderstood.
>
> I mean, why should they make the effort ? it's so easier to take a rumor
> out of context, not verify the source, not verify what it says and run
> with it.
>
> There's NEVER an excuse for mediocrity. I'm not a native speaker, Theo
> isn't either. That's not a good reason for not understanding/not writing
> english.
>
> That's the same with code, just because you learnt to program with a bad
> crowd is no excuse for most of the linux and java code out there. ;-)
