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Subject: Re: [geda-user] About reinventing the wheel, and how to avoid it
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On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 1:21 AM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
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> On Sep 11, 2015, at 7:03 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry but I find the negativity here to be a real turn off.
>
> Most ideas are bad. Edison patented a lot of useless things, including his magnetic ore separator which he also wasted a fortune developing. Einstein was wrong more than half the time. Bad ideas are the cost of good ideas. Without critical review, bad ideas get implemented.

I work for a basic science lab. I have spent a lot of time on devices
that are often used for 10mins in some ones experiment and then thrown
in a bin because someone realized the avenue they were looking down
was wrong.

I saw some mail go by to the effect of "Be quite your not a user",
"Your rejecting new users" and so on. These are not only of zero
technical merit but they are really just personal attacks meant to
drive people out of the conversation. It feels like people are not
debating ideas but revisiting old grudges. It is like a nerdy version
of that movie "Grumpy Old Men" only with out any comic aspects.

To be fair the thread got more positive the farther down I went. I
spoke to quickly. Sorry.

> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> http://www.noqsi.com/
> jpd AT noqsi DOT com
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