Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 14:15:15 -0500 From: Neal Hogan <nealhogan@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD Message-ID: <ab7b49bc0905281215o69506647v38e0fff3e9cf5f71@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090528185617.GD40206@kokopelli.hydra> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905271642380.52163@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905271719480.52480@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <744a9119476160472a319bbc9f4fd799.squirrel@relay.lc-words.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905271756370.52750@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <065001c9def1$54ae3f40$fe0abdc0$@za.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905272122010.54285@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <ab7b49bc0905271238r4f520394odb30c48af9fb7d06@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905272142020.54544@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4A1D9B45.4050302@boosten.org> <20090528185617.GD40206@kokopelli.hydra>
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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:57:57PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: >> Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> >> > exactly does. i just don't catch why he - while stopping using it >> > because of forum - still read and posts here. >> >> None of your concern: this is just what everybody is writing about. >> Whether someone is using FreeBSD or not, and reading here or not, is >> irrelevant to most (and probably to all) discussions going on here, and >> it is my understanding (and my opinion, which is different than yours on >> this matter I suspect) that your commenting on this is mostly unapprecia= ted. > > Actually, that's technically your estimation -- not your opinion. =A0It m= ay > be correct or incorrect (and if it's incorrect, then I'm incorrect too, > because I have come to the same conclusion), but the fact it's not a > settled matter doesn't mean it's opinion. =A0The term opinion has a very > specific meaning, and this isn't it. > > Saying *you* don't appreciate it would be a matter of opinion. =A0Saying > you think most people don't appreciate it would be an estimation of the > popularity of a given opinion -- but not an opinion itself. Huh? > > I don't mean to "bust your balls" on this, so to speak. =A0I just want to > offer my thoughts on the matter of what does and does not constitute > opinion so that people who disdain what others observe but cannot > necessarily prove will not find it as easy to dismiss things as mere > "opinion". > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] > Quoth Anonymous: "Why do we never have time to do it right, but always > have time to do it over?" > --=20 www.nealhogan.net www.lambdaserver.com
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