<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 March 2015 at 10:40, Chris Murphy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@colorremedies.com" target="_blank">lists@colorremedies.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <<a href="mailto:smooge@gmail.com">smooge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> When someone says a compulsory password quality policy is actionable,<br>
>> they are telling me my judgement cannot be trusted for my own device,<br>
>> without respect to context. And yet I see other OS's, distros, mobile<br>
>> devices, none of which have such a requirement or are yet even more<br>
>> permissive, and that makes me distrust these proponents. A gap in<br>
>> trust has formed, and widens as proponents don't even acknowledge such<br>
>> concerns and push for the change violating myriad long standing<br>
>> expectations in the relationship between user, device and OS. But I<br>
>> must comply if I depend on the GUI installer, and this abrogation<br>
>> constitutes a misfeasance. That makes me mad because it's unfair.<br>
>><br>
>> I challenge you to find a single flaw in that sequence.<br>
>><br>
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> There are multiple ways. I could go to the extreme and say your first<br>
> questionable judgement was that you used a distribution and allowed others<br>
> to decide for you what packages were in the core, which versions, which<br>
> compiler options. Coming in at the end and saying 'woah this is takes away<br>
> my rights from my device.' is really closing the doors after the barn.<br>
> However that would just make take the argument to the next Godwin level and<br>
> waste a lot of electrons.<br>
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</span>Except, you just did. You didn't actually refrain.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You are correct. I was snide, over-the-top and rude. What I said was inexcusable and wrong. I apologize and withdraw from this conversation.</div><div> </div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Stephen J Smoogen.<br><br></div></div>
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