Konqueror rules, Dolphin must die

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Sun Nov 2 17:07:24 UTC 2008


Emanoil Kotsev wrote:

> calling something stupid, if it's stupid, means telling the truth.
> can you live with it? I can.

We're back to philology.  Calling a _program_ stupid, in English, is a
criticism of the programmer - because a program is not capable of being
stupid, so it must be the person who wrote it.

> Also politeness does not have to do with how I describe an application
> which is set to be default and doesn't work quite well, so I spend time to
> look how to change it.

> I also don't understand what is insulting all of you, who wrote to me
> regarding the way I see the dolphin app. 

That's the point - you're _not_ insulting any of us, you're insulting the
people who can do something about it, and they're not here.

> This 
> means when I say something is stupid it really is at least for me, if you
> like it or not.

Well, that's not just impolite, it's arrogant.
<plonk>
-- 
derek





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