[Foundation-l] What's appropriate attribution?

[Thomas Dalton]

2008/10/21 Mike Godwin <mgodwin at wikimedia.org>:
>
> Michael Bimmler writes:
>
>> Thomas, Mike, as much as I'm amused by this debate, can we drop this
>> here? It's getting unproductive, really.
>
> I confess I am amused too, which is why I indulge myself. It's a bit
> as if I were to show up at a programming conference and say something
> like "You know, that C++ stuff is very complicated -- it requires a
> knowledge of object-oriented-programming principles, you know."
>
> If I were really self-important, I'd repeat this C++ pronunciamento
> two or three times, ideally in front of a large group.

To be more precise, it's as if you showed up to a programming
conference and said that to someone who had just dismissed OOP
principles as unimportant.