On 6 March 2015 at 10:13, Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com> wrote:

> So this entire thing is about you reading as a verb something clearly
> syntactically an adjective?   I'm not sure how I can respond to that.


Do you acknowledge it's a historical fact that the user password for a
local device has been exclusively user domain? If no, give
counterfactual examples.


You need to dial back the dialogue a bit. The original email came across as an out of control rant that lost me after the third sentence. If instead of trying to win "Flame of the Day" award and being less metaphorical and more factual.. it might go a long way to having a conversation versus a man and a soap box in a park.
 
You said a product can properly mandate otherwise. Where does the
authority or sanction come from to do this? Just by saying it is so,
and then just by doing it?



It is a two way street. You own the device. They make the OS. Each is their own 'ball' if I am using your original metaphor appropriately. Each sees the other as the field the ball gets played on. If you don't like the field that your ball is playing on you are free to ask for something to be changed. If it doesn't get changed you can go find another field to play on. And vice versa. 

I am not saying this is the best way to handle things, but when everyone seems that the only way to communicate is jumping up and down on a soap box claiming the other side is completely in the wrong.. "how to handle things better" has long been thrown out.
 

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