Re: UNIX Compatibility

Mike Galbraith
2011-05-25T15:17:16Z

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