On 2009-05-14, Mart van de Wege <mvdwege_public@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sinister Midget <fardblossom@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On 2009-05-13, none of your buisiness <none@xxxxxxxx> claimed:
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
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>>>> Miguel,
>>>>
>>>> You are trying to characterise us as 'binary' extremists (right|wrong)
>>>> when in fact your simplistic labeling mechanism is a case of applying
>>>> hypocrisy.
>>>>
>>>> Think about it.
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>> I still think it's either Miguel or it's a very good troll. This
>> "person" gave a history of events that partially coincided with what is
>> known. By itself that doesn't prove anything, I know.
>>
> I have read multiple posts by Miguel in other places. If this is an
> impersonator, it's a good one. The style is definitely Miguel.
>
> Miguel thinks a lot of things Microsoft did in the software realm were
> good ideas: one of his first goals was to implement a COM-like component
> infrastructure on Linux.
...I thought it was kind of the other way around. The COM components
in Windows are sort of a devolved version of something that developed
natively on Unix.
>
> That's an opinion, one you can agree or disagree with. Unfortunately,
> Miguel gets *very* defensive when you criticize the things he likes. He
> also has a big problem separating criticism of Microsoft's business
> tactics from Microsoft's software development practices. Since the
> latter are more or less obviously used to support the former, this is
> understandable. Unfortunately it leaves Miguel sometimes in a position
> that he must defend the undefendable, and he is not good at dealing with
> that, from what I have seen.
>
> Mart
>
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