From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Richard Yao <ryao@ic.sunysb.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: UNIX Compatibility
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 17:17:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1306336629.15714.13.camel@marge.simson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64e4614dda6f4558a68a314d7b5979b5-mfwitten@gmail.com>
On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 14:20 +0000, Michael Witten wrote:
> On Wed, 25 May 2011 06:18:28 +0200, Michael Galbraith wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 18:31 +0000, Michael Witten wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 18:16, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> > No one ever bothers to deal with issues because they are tiny,
> >> > nit-pitcky things that no one other than standards mavens would care
> >> > about. You have to be someone who is extremely anal to really care
> >> > about this kind of stuff. It's really stupid stuff... paper pushers...
> >> >
> >> > If you want to waste time out of your life that you'll never get back...
> >> > ...
> >> > ... standards committee, as full of ivory-tower eggheads as it is,
> >> > does have some folks who recognize that there is such a thing as
> >> > the Real World)...
> >>
> >> The world would be a better place if you weren't so needlessly
> >> confrontational when sharing your knoweldge, Ted.
> >
> > Ivory-tower eggheads is common vernacular, a colorful and communicative
> > description of a mindset. Ted's usage added useful information to the
> > conversation, unlike the pompous interjection above.
>
> At first I thought you were labeling as `pompous' my suggestion that the
> world would be improved by the introduction of a little more civility in
> our discourse, and so I was confused.
No you weren't. I found your remark to be pompous sideline sniping.
The End.
-Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-25 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-24 11:49 UNIX Compatibility Richard Yao
2011-05-24 13:06 ` Theodore Tso
2011-05-24 13:54 ` Michael Witten
2011-05-24 14:49 ` Richard Yao
2011-05-24 18:16 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-05-24 18:31 ` Michael Witten
2011-05-25 4:18 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-05-25 14:20 ` Michael Witten
2011-05-25 14:36 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-05-25 15:17 ` Michael Witten
2011-05-25 17:38 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-05-25 20:33 ` Casey Schaufler
2011-05-26 11:30 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2011-05-26 11:30 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2011-05-26 12:07 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-26 12:24 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2011-05-26 13:35 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-05-25 21:06 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-25 14:38 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-05-25 15:17 ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2011-05-25 15:21 ` Michael Witten
2011-05-24 18:23 ` david
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