This will be fully OT.
On 4/30/21 12:53 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 4/30/21 6:19 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
Why do, you, people use “creative editing”? Cite the whole piece I
said, and place your question there, don’t tear single phrase out of
context.
It's not "creative editing", it's quote trimming in a forum which
provides threaded discussions.
This will be totally OT. And in general I kind of don't care if any of
my phrases are taken out of context. And here is why.
I got my university [technical] education in place where political
courses were mandatory, and they were grossly oriented to _that_
government politics. Basically, in those political courses you were
taught not how to think, but what to think. Now technical people, ah,
had kind of special attitude towards these political courses. And some
were sometimes making fun out of "the grounders" of these theories by
doing the following: they were taking some "fundamental" book or paper
of that grounder, and were taking [literally, but out of context]
sentences and phrases; which made the grounder saying the things quite
opposite to what his beliefs are. All with precise literal citation
[though purposefully taken out of context].
That is why I prefer to not edit away what other people said, though I
have seen what hopefully made me immune from having "attitude" to the
same done with what I wrote (kind of "I've see worse" ;-)
It's the recommended etiquette for this
forum, and has been for decades.
Hopefully, the above explains why I prefer to not follow etiquette in
respect of trimming, but leave what others said as is in full... Just me.
Valeri
Context can be readily provided from
the parent message which is available to everyone who received my
reply. But if it makes you happy, I'll expand the quote and ask the
question again:
On 4/29/21 8:51 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
A. "I am going to install CentOS which is binary replica of RedHat
Enterprise", so whatever works on RedHat Enterprise will work on
CentOS [implying my reputation behind merely an ability to install
binary packages and common sense of what binary files are there on
both systems in questions]
B. There is CentOS which is promised (I am borrowing your phrasing
here) "WILL BE extreamly similar to RHEL + a couple months"
but in the second case I can not put my reputation at stake and
finish my phrase with "whatever works on RedHat Enterprise will work
on CentOS".
Why do you think that? Are RHEL (and CentOS) point releases backward
compatible or not? If you trust point releases to work, why would you
hesitate to trust a distribution that resembles an upcoming point release?
(And if you don't trust point releases, why would you use the OS at all?)
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