Re: Is Andreas Pour a Leftist?

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On February 5, 2004 13:17, dep wrote:
> never was in bed with ximian. but i agree with esr that kde will
> sputter, fade, and die, which belief brings me no pleasure at all. it
> will probably survive longer than, say, lindows does, but it's headed
> gradually for the door.

Lots of people want Microsoft to die and many keep proclaining that it will=
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Ditto for Apple. Neither is true because neither is based in reality but on=
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wishful thinking and general delerium.

but we'll be happy to prove you wrong. we've done it before and we'll do it=
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again. what was it about users and addressbooks? hrm....

of course, since ESR agrees with you on the KDE-is-dieing issue it MUST be=
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true, right?  i mean, he proclaimed MS's death in previous years, too, and=
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look how that's gone. the mans a foolproof prognosticator. ;-)=20

it's really easy to find people to agree with you, no matter what you are=20
looking to find agreement for. but two people saying the same thing doesn't=
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automatically make it true.

it is highly disappointing to see people like you and ESR drinking the kool=
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and believing the bullshit propaganda that certain ethically challenged=20
people in our community have been disseminating. it's one thing to be wrong=
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it's another to be hoodwinked, and it's another to be willingly hoodwinked=
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because you personally dislike something (or in your case, someone associat=
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with that something). who said pettiness is dead?

> and gnome hasn't been secretive and weird
> nor, actually, has ximian.

*blink* i don't care to get into a pissing match with other projects, but t=
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statement is patently false.=20

> that is how it turned out. and i'll not undertake a polemic in
> connection with it, because time will demonstrate that i am correct.

lol

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