Tim Smith wrote:
> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>> DFS wrote:
>>> Homer wrote:
>>>>> DFS wrote:
>>>>>> Homer wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One thing this fiasco highlights yet again is that any updates to
>>>>>>> proprietary platforms are bound to cause utter chaos, due to the
>>>>>>> disparate nature of proprietary software that comes from many
>>>>>>> vendors, without much (or any) cross-vendor collaboration.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This doesn't happen with GNU/Linux. Even though most of the
>>>>>>> software on any given GNU/Linux distro originates from an upstream
>>>>>>> third party, it is nonetheless built and tested on a single
>>>>>>> buildsystem by the vendor, and subsequently tested against the
>>>>>>> rest of the software in that tree. Therefore things like broken
>>>>>>> dependencies or conflicts never happen,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> LMAO! You made a funny, [H]ypocrite!
>>>>
>>>> Please provide proof of this supposed "hypocrisy" or shut the fuck
>>>> up. Read the context. "Things like broken dependencies or conflicts
>>>> never happen" ... as a result of disparate sources and lack of
>>>> collaboration. [...]
>>>
>>> That would be where you slimed down to Nigeria to actively help
>>> pollute the country by helping with proprietary oil drilling software,
>>> then tried to indict the Gates Foundation for merely investing in the
>>> publicly traded stock of companies that do the same.
>>
>> Lie.
>
> What is a lie? [H]omer has discussed on this very newsgroup his trip to
> Nigeria to install software for a drilling company. See the thread
> titled "OT: Oh no! Not another overseas contract!" from July 2004 for
> details.
Another case of illiteracy. Context was updates to GNU/Linux versus
proprietary software. DFS moves the goal post by bringing up
4-year old accusational issues having nothing to do with the discussion
(read "slimed", "pollute", "indict") and you support him.
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HPT
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