On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 09:18:09AM +0200, Ondrej Mosnáček wrote: > On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 at 16:30, Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [...] > > Let's look at it in another way: would you say that the people who leaved in the > > 14th century were liars for saying that the earth is flat? > > No, they just didn't know. > > Off-topic and not really affecting the validity of your point, but the > idea that people in the 14th century / Middle Ages generally believed > that the earth was flat is a myth. I recently read about it in the > book "Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened" by Jo Teeuwisse > (great book, BTW!), but also Wikipedia happens to have a decent > article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth I stand corrected, maybe "we believed earth was the center of the universe" would have worked better? Or something related to medicine? Anyway, as you said, the point was: context changes and that doesn't make what someone said a lie. Thanks, Pierre -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
