Re: [Gimp-developer] What about switching from Gtk+ to Qt

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On 08/06/12 05:30, Patrick Horgan wrote:
> On 08/04/2012 02:43 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > Hi Patrick,
> >
> > ...elision by patrick...
> > Well, calling GNU Autotools "Autohell" is not an ad-hominem attack. However,
> > assuming that since I called it "Autohell" it is wrong (or "flamebait"), is.
> > See:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
> Lol!  Look in that article under abusive.  It is exactly ad-hominem.  By
> doing a personal attack, calling it autohell, instead of having anything
> to say about why it's good or not, you exactly fulfill the definition of
> an ad-hominem attack.
>
> Patrick

Patrick, you refer to a pseudo encyclopaedia but fail to read the very 
first line:

>> An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man") short for argumentum ad 
hominem, is an attempt to negate the truth of a claim by pointing out a 
negative characteristic or belief of the person supporting it.


Autotool, or whatever is a program, software. It is not a man and can 
not be the target of a _personal_ attack.

If someone finds a program "hellish" to use and calls it autohell, that 
is humouristic. It may lack a specific point but it can not be ad hom.

Enough.