Re: The Good Old Days ...

James Frediani (ferpo@netdex.com)
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:27:29 -0800

>
>(I think the difference is that we rarely even bothered to
>respond to the general whining since we knew it would just
>degenerate into the kind of thing we are seeing now. By just
>accepting the role of heartless embodiment of pure evil, we
>didn't need to waste too much time trying to convince people
>we weren't really so bad; a great time saver.)

Gee, you were one of _them_? I seem to recall communicating
with two or three of you AOOers. I even got in a fight with
one [okay, it was rather one sided]. Dan Duvall was a
pretty reasonable AOO dude. Maybe you just had a bad press
agent? ;^) [x-Jan Kies Merchantile]

>
>(And before anyone misconstrues that .. I am quite explicitly
>NOT accusing Greg/Oleg of *anything*. He is/was always a
>worthy opponent.)
>
>My own attitude is that when you uncover a bug, it needs to
>be reported to Rich. However, once you have done your duty
>and reported the bug, it should now be considered a "feature"
>(by virtue of its being documented) and thus fair game to
>use. The flip side is that when it gets fixed without warning,
>you don't get to complain about *that* either.
>

Thank you. That was very clearly and properly put. I concur.

Jim F

>
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