Re: [PATCH] ui: 'package->recutils' serializes the source field.

[Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>]

David Craven <david@craven.ch> writes:

> Sometimes it's hard to admit when you are wrong, but I think in
> practice people barely take notice if you quickly admit you are
> wrong and move on. If you drag it out, people are definitively
> going to remember.
>
> Claiming that you applied logic to arrive at the conclusion that
>
> - Providing a user tool to fetch a tarball
> - Displaying a direct link to a tarball in our UI
>
> are the same thing is nonsense.

If I disagree with you doesn't mean I am wrong.  Please don't act as if
you were in a position to decide who is wrong.  Trying to persuade me
that it would be better for my reputation to agree with you won't work.

> Asking me to start a discussion on the linux-libre mailing list over
> this is an unreasonable request.

Being careful about FSDG compliance is not unreasonable.

> The only way I can see these two things being equal is if you
> say:
>
> class Thing
> class UserTool extends Thing
> class DirectLink extends Thing
>
> typeof UserTool == typeof DirectLink ;-)
>
> I had a class on java - which I didn't attend - and passed
> an exam - but I never wrote a single line of java. Pretty
> interesting what will pass as a java programmer don't you
> think? =P

Sorry, but I don't understand what you are trying to say.

-- 
Mathieu Lirzin