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I graciously admit that is correct, but not my objection. If you make a big deal about being gracious, that's the opposite of gracious.

• pessimizer 13y ago
  To certain values of 'gracious.' I think part of graciousness as a winner is not to ask the loser to humiliate themselves for you. If he didn't think that Upstart was a better choice yet still argued for it, that would mean that he had been wasting all of our time.
• vacri 13y ago
  You're confusing grace with humility. There's no problem with people referring to their graciousness, as long as they remain courteous while doing so. Anyway, 'big deal about being gracious'? Your second sentence contains more instances of the word than Shuttleworth's entire missive. The title mentions grace; the text says "we ran hard, we lost, we'll go with our upstream distro on this one, thanks everyone". The article is essentially a wake for Upstart, a near-10-year project initiated and championed by Canonical, and Shuttleworth is thanking everyone for their past work and work yet to come. Ironically, you're being very ungracious here.