Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262498AbTFZUiX (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:38:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262525AbTFZUiX (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:38:23 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:47249 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262498AbTFZUiT (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:38:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:52:21 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Robert White Cc: Stephan von Krawczynski , Larry McVoy , wa@almesberger.net, miquels@cistron-office.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] Message-ID: <20030626205221.GC14299@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Robert White , Stephan von Krawczynski , Larry McVoy , wa@almesberger.net, miquels@cistron-office.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030626125053.1391e59f.skraw@ithnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0.5, required 7, AWL, DATE_IN_PAST_06_12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1253 Lines: 26 On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 01:41:49PM -0700, Robert White wrote: > The idea that you "don't learn anything from (playing a less skilled > opponent)" and by extension you also can not learn anything from a > non-player is so flawed as to be laughable. In theory, you can learn anything from anyone. In practice, the highest concentration of useful information comes from someone with more experience and skill than yourself. Who do you want to have as your doctor? Someone who has done it for 20 years or someone who is observing other doctors? Repeat for any other profession, sport, discipline, whatever. Maybe you want to have your heart surgery done by someone who thinks he can do it, me, I'd pick someone who has done it successfully a few hundred times. That's my point of view, it's clear it isn't your point of view. That's fine, how about we agree to have different points of views and let this thread die? -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/