On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 08:30:58AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hello Bjarni, > > The changes in these patches are not useful. Please stop sending them. > [...] A) "The changes in these patches are not useful." No. The applied corrections are useful for the project, for the future, and for people that do not share your attitude. I call such reasons, as named above, "constructed" arguments, as the real issue is not named, revealed, exposed, but hidden behind something that could be true (for some single case) but is in reality not. B) "Please stop sending them." I am not allowed to do that. Besides your request is against the spirit of free software. It is my obligation to protest against your lack of professionalism. C) Why do you not tell the real reason for your answer (attitude)? ### "For what one has forbidden so far as a matter of principle has always been --- truth alone.". These words are valid for the history of humankind as well as for Nietzsche's family. Alice Miller "The Untouched key". Virago Press 1990, Page 122. ### Too many people are too afraid to dare to change their behaviour. ### On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computing Science Edsger W. Dijkstra SIGCSE Bulletin 1989, 21(1), pp. xxv-xxxix. Also "www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/" "This second radical novelty shares the usual fate of all radical novelties: it is denied, because its truth would be too discomforting. I have no idea what this specific denial and disbelief costs the United States, but a million dollars a day seems a modest guess." Page xxix. ## "Since breaking out of bad habits, rather than acquiring new ones, is the toughest part of learning we must expect from that system permanent mental damage for most students exposed to it." Page xxxvii. ## "The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions." Page xxxviii. ### Herman Rubin on the Usenet forum "misc.education": The important part of research, which I describe to my students as "seeing the obvious", and as it has otherwise been put: "Scientific research consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought" -A. Szent-Gyorgyi ### The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. Ben Hutchings, for example in the Usenet forum "linux.debian.devel.release". ### -- Bjarni I. Gislason
