On 12/14/05, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@thenilgiris.com wrote:
nice to know that even big guys indulge ;-)
Ofcourse the big guys indulge ... where do you think we get our inspiration from!! The only difference between us and them is that they mostly *know* what they are talking about and we mortals argue and second-guess each-others opinions.
If you want to see the real landmarks check out the Minix-Linux debate http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/appa.html involving Linus or the Emacs-Xemacs schism http://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html involving RMS.
Unfortunately our best hackers are also our biggest loud-mouths. Just remember that what you post on a mailing list will be preserved on the net for posterity - as a permanent monument to your rudeness and stupidity. You can apologize for it later (as you can see in the above examples) but you can never really take it back.
Just my 2p.
- farazs