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  Re: Is there such a thing as inherently asinine software design?  
From: nemesis
Date: 29 Dec 2007 19:45:00
Message: <web.4776e98eca5997848c382b80@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> gregjohn <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> > The one person there, to the
> > best of my knowledge, fully understood what I was complaining about and implied
> > I was silly for not wanting it to be that way.  He or she defended the idea
> > that every time you copied a file, the only date that ever mattered would be
> > the date-of-copy-to-new-folder.  Asinine!
>
>   Disregard that argumentation. It's irrelevant. What he is really saying
> is "this n00b is complaining about my beloved product and I'm too proud
> to admit being wrong".

Indeed that's the mentality of many Gnome devs and indeed I've experienced that
problem in a Gnome environment.  No surprise Linus Torvalds was pissed off at
them...

but that's ok:  you can always use cp at the shell... :)


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