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Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 07:17:47PM -0600, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>>> Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>>> Open-source works by scratching your itch, not by getting someone 
>>>> else to scratch it for you.
>>> Actually getting someone else to scratch that itch sometimes does work!
>> Right! And, the perfect way to have the itch scratched is to claim 
>> that you know better than everyone else, imply that people don't care 
>> about the end-user experience, assert that you won't even bother 
>> submitting a patch because it would be automatically rejected for no 
>> good reason, rail about flaws in open source, ignore patient attempts 
>> to explain how things work, and never give up in the face of logical 
>> arguments, relying instead on repeating all of the above ad infinitum.
>>
>> This technique is, apparently, a sure-fire way to get someone to do 
>> something for you. We're just still in the ad infinitum stage. As soon 
>> as that stage is over, someone will surely get to work on this crucial 
>> patch.
> I was being funny (and I did have a smiley though I don't see it in the 
> quote). You are apparently being sarcastic.
> 
> No that is not the perfect way as you describe, sarcasm aside. There are 
> ways to be gently persuasive ya know. Indeed often times just bringing 
> up a technical topic, even through a raging argument, spurs creative 
> solutions and engineers being what they are often get motivated to find 
> that solution (though perhaps not this bunch...;-)
> 
> BTW That last bit was intended to be a joke.
> 


Was not!  (Now you counter with "Was to" and we'll bat that back and forth
until one of us yells for Mom. ;-) )

I also made the observation that discussion can be persuasive, though the one
in this thread wasn't meeting that goal.  I may be wrong but my guess is that
folks on this list do accept that discussion and persuasion are not mutually
exclusive.


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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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