Gregory Maxwell writes:
In the future I would prefer it if you present your disagreement without copping out by calling the other side a bunch of fundies. It's effectively an ad-homnie, and it doesn't further the discourse.
If that's what you think I was doing, then I apologize. I thought I was making a subtler point, but, then, maybe it was too subtle.
Because you have taken the approach of casing my position as one of irrationality and not given me the courtesy of an actual counter argument I am unable to determine exactly where your views and mine differ.
That is not the approach I meant to be understood as taking.
No religion is required. Only a willingness to value long term goals over short term convenience.
And here you assume that only those who believe as you believe value long-term goals over short-term convenience. I should think it apparent to pretty much everybody that the Kaltura collaboration is not convenient in the short term. I should think it apparent to pretty much everyone familiar with my work that I value long-term goals over short-term convenience.
At this point, I was sufficiently upset by how you mischaracterized my position, and because you used the word "nazi" in reference to me, that I ceased to read further.
This is the first time in a long time that anyone has called me a nazi. Not impossibly, your friends are comfortable being called nazis in jest. I'm not, for I think obvious historical reasons, and for reasons that I've written about.
I think I'll resign from this list for a while. I'll wait a year and see if it gets better. See you in 2009.
Anyone who wishes to continue a discussion here with me can contact me via private e-mail.
--Mike