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Re: Apologies for the massive and pointless thread

From
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date
Jan 22, 2008, 07:57 UTC
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<8563xm47ix.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
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Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> writes:
> I want to apologize for the recent thread entitled "git on MacOSX and
> files with decomposed utf-8 file names".
[...]
> Unfortunately, my argument seems to have been completely lost in the
> noise, and everybody ended up with some idea of what my argument was
> that was completely invalid.

You still consider everybody who does not share your point of view an idiot. And telling people that is not going to change their mind. You need to come up with an argument that convinces anybody, and "the designers are smart people, they must have thought something smart even though I don't actually get it myself" does not convince anybody. And that has been your main argument.

And you consider others dense for not accepting it?
-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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  1. Kevin BallardJan 22, 2008
  2. David KastrupJan 22, 2008

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