From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David C. Mason" To: esr@thyrsus.com Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: I'm trying to set up docbook-tools... Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 06:36:00 -0000 Message-id: X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00241.html "Eric S. Raymond" writes: > David, you ain't *seen* me being insulting yet. So far, all I've > done is call a spade a spade. You, and Deb, and Mark, and Norman, > can start being offended the day I don't respect you enough to > criticize your work. Criticism is the tribute you pay adults who > are capable of better than they have done. Indifference or > dismissal would be the real insult. I will at this point simply have to ignore. Not as an insult, rather, I thought I could get something constructive that I could personally add to the DocBook Tools project and the use of DocBook in general. All I have gotten is repeated insults of my friends. I do not subscribe to your definition of an insult. I tend to believe that to treat someone with indignity is the real definition of an insult. To treat Bob Young (who I can assure you is not on this list to defend himself) with the words you have chosen, is to treat with indignity. Period. Besides I find more in one post from Ed than I have of all the posts you have given us so far. The more I try to figure out what it is you want or need I find that the old saying remains true: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism." And with that, I will sign off with Mr Richard Livingstone's quote: "...criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics." Dave