From: mellon AT vix DOT com (Ted Lemon) Subject: Re: Starting all over from 16.1 ? 18 Feb 1997 10:15:41 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199702181421.GAA03695.cygnus.gnu-win32@andare.fugue.com> Original-To: Jim Balter Original-cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Feb 1997 04:44:24 PST." <3309A428 DOT 711D AT netcom DOT com> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Jim, your ability to flame is truly magnificent. If you want to think of it as critical analysis and pretend that what you're doing is polite and constructive, I guess I can't stop you. From my perspective, critical analysis is only distinct from flaming to the extent that it used to further constructive discourse. A key requirement of constructive discourse is that it show some signs of convergence. The discussion about Cygnus' recent press release shows no signs of convergence. I would call it a flame war. I definitely would not characterize it as useful discourse. Whether or not you are ``right'', continuing to espouse your many opinions on this topic has no purpose other than to ensure that every second message on the gnu-win32 mailing list comes from Jim Q. Balter. My knowledge of the FSF history comes not from reading emacs news files, but from participating in said history, talking to the principals and reading relevant on-line source material. I may have the cutoff version number wrong, but the conflict that I describe over Gosmacs did happen. If you want to correct my knowledge of FSF history, that's fine - I don't claim to be perfectly informed. But at least get your own facts straight first. _MelloN_ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".