On Tue, 03 Sep 2002 12:24:51 -0700, Xplo Eristotle
<xpl### [at] infomagicnet> wrote:

>In defense of these groups, the majority of threads are more friendly 
>(not to mention more on topic).

>It's just that every once in a while 
>Thorsten decides to be an arrogant asshole about something he claims to 
>understand, but doesn't.

Now, aren't these two statements contradictory!

What we see here is a conflict between two quite self-confident,
elitarian egos. Might I add, both have very solid grounds of being
self-confident and elitarian :) I don't see any assholes around.

You will see either one jumping in from the same heights when
defending other subjects they have their opinions on. It's just that
in this very case, they chose the same subject :)

Seriously, there is no sense of personal insults. Someone even tried
to drag Bill into this argument and he's been staying out much more
wisely than most of the participants.

>I suppose it might be better policy to just ignore people like him, but 
>there are times when something must be said (and then beaten to death), 
>are there not?

Yes there are such times (as my post proves) but no, you got the rest
wrong. Why not ignore the subject and not the person? Or do you really
think any of the participants in the thread are really assholes?

>That, and of course the fact that he maintains the Mac version of 
>POV-Ray (in strict accordance with Apple human interface research 
>findings that exist entirely in his own mind and contradict public 
>documents, I might add), makes him harder to ignore completely...

The POV-Ray Team and its members have a clean history of taking user
feedback seriously. If enough people find a bug or demand a feature,
that bug is removed or the feature is usually added, of course within
the natural imposed limits of hardware, software, algorithm, current
implementation etc.

Please, take a more civilized approach to the subject. That's to
everyone.


Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
Personal e-mail : pet### [at] vipbg
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