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Hey, you seem to be as clueless about communication as he is.
by ugh 15y ago
Hey, you seem to be as clueless about communication as he is.
- Tichy 15y agoWhat I find more interesting: are you as good at hacking as rms? Or is being better at communication the only thing you can take pride in? I suspect that might be behind all the ranting.
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- vacri 15y agoWhat an excellent way to make your point: with an ad hominem attack!
- ugh 15y agoI think I’m justified in saying that someone is clueless about communication if that person honestly believes that a statement by a very public spokesperson in any public place – no matter how obscure – will or should remain obscure. That’s not how communication works. Sorry. I thought that was sort of implied by my comment, no need to explicitly say it, because it’s so damn obvious. But I’m sorry if you though that my comment was nothing but an attack.
- vacri 15y agoI understood what you meant, I just found it ironic in the extreme that you chose to complain about poor communication by genuinely using poor communication, especially given the context of the thread. You've been commenting that Stallman should have deported himself better, and yet you break out with a comment like that yourself.
- ugh 15y agoMy argument doesn’t require me to lead by example. I’m some random commenter. And since you understood me perfectly well there doesn’t seem to be a problem in this specific case.
- vacri 15y agoUnderstanding you perfectly well isn't the issue at point, it's the manner of how you present yourself - witness all the crap in this thread about RMS from those people who now accept that he didn't wish Jobs dead, but still say he should have been more polite about it. You don't have much of a credible leg to stand on if you don't engage in that which you request of others. Edit: changed 'moral' to 'credible' to avoid semantic bickering about the loaded word.
- ugh 15y agoMorals? I think I have been talking squarely about effective communication, not morals.