Ray Saintonge wrote:
Pinning this on "old timers" is a grossly
offensive mischaracterization
of the problem.
Indeed. I'm an "old timer" myself and I'm quite annoyed by stuff like
this. Perhaps the real dividing line that's causing conflict is between
unilateralists and collaborationists; it used to be that unilateral
actions tended to be reverted without much fuss if large numbers of
people disagreed with them but now there are an increasing number of
policies and processes (BLP, DRV, etc.) that can be used as bludgeons to
"enforce" decisions.