Fwd: Is disabling ctrl-alt-backspace really such a good idea?

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Wed Feb 11 01:12:28 UTC 2009


On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:37:49 -0500 John Moser <john.r.moser at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> 
wrote:
>> I don't particularly care for the deicision that was made, but it's been
>> made, so there's little point rehashing it now.
>>
>
>Fallacy.  I don't particularly care for the decision that every
>computer should run Windows, but it's been made, so there's little
>point in rehashing it now.
>
>Do you see what I did there?
>
>Incorrect decisions need to be questioned, fought, and reversed;
>actually pushing a decision through neither makes it right nor
>permanent.  In the scientific community they spend time trying to
>disprove gravity and evolution, things we pretty much damn well know
>are 100% accurate; if you feel something is wrong or just could be
>done a better way it's worth pursuing.
>
This is engineering, not science.  There is no single answer that is right 
for everyone.

It's 9 days until feature freeze, so if you want it different I suggest 
sending patches.

Scott K




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