Re: Devin's effort

On 4/20/2015 2:01 PM, Paul Schmehl <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've stayed out of this pissing contest so far, but this is uncalled
> for.

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> You must be young and cocky.

Nah, 55, and a pretty nice guy when it comes down to it. Deliberate
ignorance is just one of my pet peeves.

> Maybe some day you will grow up and realize that different people
> have different opinions, and no opinion is THE correct answer.

Actually, I beg to differ. Truth is not subjective, as much as you might
want it to be. Facts are facts, and are not subject to the whim of the
fickle.

Of course what appear to be facts today can be disproven tomorrow, but
that can only happen when confronted with superior facts and evidence to
back them up.

When someone made some unsubstantiated, generally negative claims as if
they were facts about software that I am intimately familiar with and
know for a fact are wrong, I *politely* asked for clarification.

I was answered with a short almost rude reply clearly displaying their
refusal to even take a few minutes time to try to elaborate on their
claims, and just restating the claim as if it were fact.

So I called him on it.

> We get that you like Thunderbird.  Now shut up and go away.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I think I'll stick around while I
evaluate Mulberry.