From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, jim@meyering.net
Subject: Re: xz-compressed release tarballs?
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8362fvxiza.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201201281809.17343.vapier@gentoo.org>
> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:09:15 -0500
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org,
> jan.kratochvil@redhat.com,
> jim@meyering.net
>
> On Saturday 28 January 2012 03:18:47 Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I see nothing ridiculous in a request to cater to a situation of your
> > fellow developer of Free Software, and don't understand how can you
> > ridicule such a request.
>
> sorry, but i really can't find anything worth replying to here.
But you replied anyway.
> being a free software developer doesn't mean being able to force
> people to adhere to what works on their personal legacy systems
> where the user refuses to upgrade the software. that is
> unreasonable.
I cannot and didn't force anyone to do anything. I made a request.
Disagreeing with that request and acting against it is entirely
appropriate and understood; calling it ridiculous or using other
derogatory language is not.
> i've got plenty of old systems
There's nothing in MS-Windows systems that can be called "legacy" or
"old".
> i don't try and force everyone else to try and support them at the
> detriment of future progress.
Neither did I.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-29 3:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-26 20:22 Jim Meyering
2012-01-26 20:32 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-26 21:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-26 22:15 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-26 23:10 ` Samuel Bronson
2012-01-27 1:49 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-27 9:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-27 5:02 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-27 9:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-30 19:08 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-27 1:48 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-27 9:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-27 18:41 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-28 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-28 23:08 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-29 3:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-01-30 6:26 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-30 17:49 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-01-30 19:54 ` Stan Shebs
2012-01-30 20:53 ` Pedro Alves
2012-01-30 21:06 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-27 2:37 ` Ralf Corsepius
2012-01-27 9:26 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-27 20:27 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-27 20:30 ` Marek Polacek
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