`Hiding' libc symbols

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:33:54PM +0100, Paul Richards wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > My opinion is that FreeBSD should cater to the people who know their
> > > stuff and let the crap programmers out their be shown the bugs that
> > > exist in their code when they try to use it on FreeBSD.
> > 
> > Now I know why people accuse us of elitism...
> > 
> > Let's please not favor pedantry over robustness.
> 
> This isn't elitism. A professor or teacher is not elitist when they
> correct the mistakes of less experienced pupils. FreeBSD should
> highlight bad habits so people can see that they are making mistakes and
> improve their skills.

The arrogance and elitism is in the presumption that 1) you can teach
and 2) people want to be taught by you (the universal you). Never assume
the role of teacher merely on the grounds that your believes make you
think you're right and you arrogance has made you believe that people
should know about it. Your desire to enlighten may be nothing more than
a demonstration of blindness in the light of rejection.

Teach only to people you want to be taught by you.

/me being arrogant and blind, :-)

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel at xcllnt.net