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Sure, ad populum is a fallacy when you are arguing a point, but when you are trying to decide on a toolchain to use, why wouldn't you go with the one that most
by untothebreach 11y ago
Sure, ad populum is a fallacy when you are arguing a point, but when you are trying to decide on a toolchain to use, why wouldn't you go with the one that most of your customers use? You might like another toolchain better (and I happen to agree with you about rpm), but that doesn't necessarily mean it is objectively better.
- mdekkers 11y agoI didn't argue about it objectively being better, I argued that it isn't suitable for _me_ - given the downvotes though, It appears that I am stupid and don't understand my own use-cases, and the general population on HN knows much better what I need.
- eropple 11y agoI downvoted you not because of your disagreement, though I think you're wrong, but because of your peculiar insistence on self-martyrdom. It doesn't improve your argument and leads only to meta-complaint threads that generally don't go anywhere.
- untothebreach 11y ago(i did not downvote you) This was my interpretation of your comment, my apologies if it is incorrect: "I don't like YUM and RPM, and others shouldn't use popularity as a reason to use something" Which I agree with. However, in this case, I think that if, in fact, RPM is popular among VMWare's customers, choosing that toolchain in order to make their new product more attractive to their existing customers is totally valid.