Re: Apologies to gnome-gui if I ever said you guys were flamers...

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Dan "Effugas" Kaminsky wrote:

> Ohhhhh EXCUUUUUUUUSE me, Scott.  I'm a GUI designer.  Did I not know about
> certain CLI things?  Yup.  Look at me, Scott.  Unlike you, I have the balls
> to admit I don't know everything and I'm seeking the *HELP* of others that
> do.
> 
> At least I'm not so arrogant as to think that I know everything and that
> anybody who doesn't know what me, in my extreme intelligence, happens to be
> aware of is a complete fool.
> 
> So why didn't *YOU* post anything to the list when I put THE ENTIRE FULL
> TEXT of Cluehunting online?  Why didn't you say "By the way, Dan, zsh,
> emacs, and the readline library do things that are similar"?  What more can
> I do to investigate than *ASK OTHERS IN MY FIELD*?

[snip]

> So let me get this straight...I don't hate Microsoft software(just their
> business practices), thus I'm an idiot?  That's more idiotic than
> corporations who won't pick up free software because "there's nobody to
> sue".

please take this thread off the list. thank you.
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