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Re: Schestowitz lying *again*

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:20:55 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> ____/ Linonut on Tuesday 22 January 2008 22:28 : \____
> 
>> * Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
>> 
>>> The headline you picked for your post about Ed Burnette's suggestion to
>>> Linus:
>>>
>>>    [News] Ed Burnette Calls for Linus Torvalds to Embrace GPLv3
>>>
>>> And here is what Burnette actually wrote:
>>>
>>> ==== begin quote ====
>>> Dear Linus,
>>> Like you, Iâ??m pragmatic, not dogmatic. I believe software wants to be
>>> used and shared, but licensing issues keep getting in the way. As an
>>> industry, weâ??re making this way too hard on ourselves. Weâ??re wasting our
>> Dude, clean up your character set!
>> 
>>>    <http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=512>
>>>
>>> Why do you keep lying in your headlines?  Do you think people won't go
>>> read the stories and catch you?
>> 
>> Obviously not, Tim.  So why do you then assume it is lie, rather than a
>> mistake due to a too-quick reading?
> 
> Yes, I read the first few paragraph and also remembered how he previously
> defended GPLv3 against myths. I didn't read this carefully. Ed E-mailed me a
> couple of times asking for a correction, which I'll make.

No you didn't.
Your automated program has more than few bugs in it.
Probably because you wrote it.

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