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Originally Posted by Old Abe View Post
Well, for someone with such a haughty disposition I didn't expect you to play the coy ingénue.
More personal attacks...

Your posts began curt,
Yes the 1st response was...

then became biting and patronizing
Which one would that be?

and then you spiraled right down into childishness
And this?

Don't try to deceive the readers now that you have removed your utterly crass post.
Who's the one doing the deception here, this is the "utterly crass" post you're referring to that I deleted immediately upon request by joer:

Originally Posted by Old Abe View Post
I made the response where I did as I wanted readers of my previous post to easily be able to see my follow up. I'll not pursue trifles though.
That can be easily done with a link to your post in the on-topic thread, maybe you'll try doing that this time round.

I made neither claims or assertions. It would be obvious to anyone with a grasp of the English language that all I provided was purely perspective.
Funny, it certainly read with plenty of insinuation bordering on fact, but with little detail (verifiable_facts or logical_reasoning) backing-up each point (below).
Originally Posted by Old Abe View Post
The Jolla project took a direction I did not like That, coupled with other directions the project has taken stifled my interest. I have similar concerns with Canonical's ventures.
I did qualify "claims" with "assertion", assertion has quite a different meaning to claims, which is why I qualified claims with it.
That seems to have been lost on you... The only point you did address:
Originally Posted by Old Abe View Post
and after speaking with one of the heads of the project and asking him about the position the team would take if certain powers were to request certain "features" be placed into the system (I am a security consultant and generally very fond of personal liberties and privacy - this is my main motivation for open source) I was less than thrilled with his response.
Amounts to little more than a "he said & she said" account, plus some more rambling, no actual proof of what you're so "concerned" about.
Aside from that, last I checked HK isn't governed by mainland China, it's still effectively a independent state whose (conventional) defence is provided by the mainland.

My reference to the statement a member of Jolla made is absolutely true.
And it carries little-to-no weight, other than providing your "perspective", which bears no relation to any known reality.

Your tone is likened to the typical egos that frequent message boards. I don't know if this is your usual attitude or if your caustic reply was due to excessive enthusiasm for Jolla. If you are passionate about Jolla, please try to express it in a more peaceful manner. Adults should be able to disagree without tension. Yours is exactly the kind of retort that yields ridiculous page long quarrels.
It wasn't caustic, it was just brief, you read into it what you wanted...

Friends?
LOL Really? Definitely not after that reaction

Originally Posted by Old Abe View Post
"okay so you've not really explained all your contentions* " - What a coy summary of your post. Completely contrived to make yourself appear level headed and courteous.
Of course, after having realized that there are those who have read your posting, you decided you couldn't fully get away with that wording so you (ridiculously) added an addendum: "*Admittedly in a brief/terse way".
I suppose you can continue this charade as your silly and rude post is gone now but I think the discerning sort won't be fooled.
Here it is for posterity, I stand by what I said though...
As I said, it was more appropriate to have made the response in the on-topic thread.
So your claims/assertions are all pure conjecture/speculation, nothing solid it seems.
And as for your ridiculously hollow, contrived "apology" - I receive it in the manner with which it was given. It has been a long time since I let myself be drawn in by an "Internet Ego" but I just happened to have my fill recently. Joerg, please suspend my account for a while to remind me not to feed trolls again but please quiet the troll also for the greater good. I couldn't stay my tongue once he started misrepresenting his statements and playing coy. I suppose I value integrity too much. Absolutely ridiculous and embarrassing.
Wall-to-wall personal attacks & character assassination, & (yet again) speaking as though you stand on some kind of higher moral ground.
It's unfortunate you strayed so far from what was originally a very simple request, upon which you initially seemed prepared to oblige.

Last edited by jalyst; 2013-10-18 at 12:47.