bambambox :

Your name here :
@Dan Serban
You also fail at analogies not just Wordpress.
anti-mono crowd is more akin to republicans. completely devoid of reason (for the most part).

You didn’t just diss someone’s terrible analogy and then use the exact same analogy to diss a bunch of other folk, did you? I mean, sheesh. Couldn’t you just have said “NO U” instead?

simply commented how his analogy is up-side down. that’s the fail part.

bambambox :

Your name here :
@Dan Serban
You also fail at analogies not just Wordpress.
anti-mono crowd is more akin to republicans. completely devoid of reason (for the most part).

You didn’t just diss someone’s terrible analogy and then use the exact same analogy to diss a bunch of other folk, did you? I mean, sheesh. Couldn’t you just have said “NO U” instead?

no, i embraced his analogy but corrected the failure part . that was my “you fail” comment about.

Your name here :

@Dan Serban
You also fail at analogies not just Wordpress.
anti-mono crowd is more akin to republicans. completely devoid of reason (for the most part).

You didn’t just diss someone’s terrible analogy and then use the exact same analogy to diss a bunch of other folk, did you? I mean, sheesh. Couldn’t you just have said “NO U” instead?

You also fail at analogies not just Wordpress.

anti-mono crowd is more akin to republicans. completely devoid of reason (for the most part).

I don’t live in that country and have no stakes in the success of either political party, but I’ve had a passing interest in the US-based political blogosphere at some point, and as an outsider, it was impossible not to notice a pattern and develop a biased opinion.
There’s an inescapable feeling that the republican blogs take their marching orders from somewhere, that they are being handed over a small number of talking points and told to focus on them with laser-like precision and repeat them steadfastly and obsessively, even in the face of reasonable, rational arguments to the contrary.
The democratic blogs have a much more grassroots, participatory feel to them.

It’s impossible for me not to notice that the debate over Mono follows the same kind of pattern.
On the one hand you have the grassroots group that says “Having Mono on your system should be the result of an informed decision. Don’t saddle new Linux users with preinstalled Mono bloat because they haven’t made that informed decision.”
On the other hand you have the well-organized group that says “Mono will be preinstalled on your system because trust me it’s good for you and because “.

So screw political correctness, I think I’ll coin a new term here: The Mono-Republicans.

You might also listen to Mr de Icaza’s talk at Microsoft’s PDC2008. I don’t recall any specific mention of GNOME, however, he did express the desire to eventually substitute Silverlight for the GTK# bindings to GTK+.

BaconMeter will be a mono app.

Nice ending…