Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Kier on Wednesday 23 January 2008 15:09 : \____
>
>> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:20:55 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, I read the first few paragraph and also remembered how he previously
>>> defended GPLv3 against myths. I didn't read this carefully.
>>
>> No offence, Roy, but you *should* have read it it carefully. When you post
>> stuff, anything at all, you should make sure it says what you claim it
>> says, else you just lay yourself wide open to criticism of this kind - if
>> not, in many cases, the criticism will be justified. If you have to choose
>> between sacrifing volume of posts or accuracy of posts, choose the former,
>> not the latter. You will save yourself a lot of trouble.
>
> Yes, I agree, but there is always room for error. The question is, what will be
> the recurrence? If one in 300 is incorrect or inaccurate, then that's
> reasonable. Even reading entire articles isn't enough. In many cases, articles
> themselves are incorrect (recent examples include articles about Mono, memory
> leaks in C# and accusation against the olpcnews.com guy). To err is human.
>
Just ignore Kier and continue. He makes outrageous claims and never
backs them, but demands that others prove things over and over. He's
hardly a role-model here, and most certainly does not practise what he
preaches.
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