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You missed my point. It was not obvious to me what was or wasn't sarcasm. I'll be it wasn't obvious to most people. Saying "obvious sarcasm aside" does not make

• vacri 15y ago
  Usually when someone says "-foo- aside", they're referring to the immediately previous text. Add in to this that the terms in the immediately previous sentence were exaggerated, and it should at least give a hint at where the sarcasm lay.
  • jshen 15y ago
    "Add in to this that the terms in the immediately previous sentence were exaggerated" This isn't true, and that's my point. If you take out the last paragraph, it could easily be a serious statement from many people around here. "In Canonical's case, it's an even worse idea, isn't it? Why spend engineer resources targeting the tiny Android market rather than the huge desktop ... market?" What is exaggerated? Oh, maybe adding the word Linux makes it an exaggeration? I think my point holds that sarcasm doesn't come through well in text!