tlug: Linux for the masses: a civil reply, I hope.

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

Oops.

>>>>> "me" == Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull@example.com> writes:

    me> I also object to the non-compliant garbage that a more
    me> powerful MS OS would likely spew all over cyberspace, but
    me> that's going to happen anyway.  But I refuse to support, and
    me> will argue against, processes that lead to open source
    me> products spewing garbage.  I don't expect MS to listen.

    me> I expect _you_ (tjh, that is) _will_ listen, and probably
    me> decide I'm a paranoid maniac, and be on the other side of the
    me> argument.

That does sound like I think tjh (inter alia) is in favor of spew.

Let me make clear that I consider myself to be an extremist on this
issue (not the same as paranoid maniac, but not too different,
either).  I consider the discovery of a bug that would lead to spew in 
some circumstances a showstopper that should inhibit a release; my
definition of "the other side" is "release and fix the bug asap, as
long as the circumstances causing harmful spew are rare."

The latter is an eminently reasonable position, but one I hope the
Linux community will resist as long as possible.

My apologies.

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