In article <1115385171.447203.299180@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Gunnar Ritter <Gunnar.Ritter@pluto.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:

>You really consider to discuss the material from
><http://invisible-island.net/critique/APUE-SSP.html> in court?
> 
>
>Perhaps you should make a habit of doing a Google web search for the
>names of persons before guessing about them. Thomas has provided
>excellent services to the Unix community for over a decade with his
>maintenance and development of xterm, ncurses, etc. There is hardly
>anybody in these groups who has never used the Open Source software
>Thomas has donated to the community; many do so daily, and many do so
>just in the very moment they are reading these lines.

If you did read this newsgroup during the past years, you should know that
Mr. Dickey did not appear her before ~ 2003 and that he did in many cases
act like a net cook being unwilling to have fact based discussions.

Mr. Dickey in many cases acts extremely aggressive to other people and
rarely sends real information besides something like "you are wrong".

He did write once an informative posting about the problems with
broken xterm entries found on Linux but he denies provable problems with
TERMINFO and often acts like a wounded animal when anything appers here that
could be brought into a relationship to curses.

If I had to judge on him only from his statements in c.u.s, I would need
to call him a poor troll.

>In this case, he has compiled enough material to fill a large web
>page. You will not defeat that by guesses ad hominem.

Looking at this web page gives a different light on Mr. Dickey.
It seems that (besides from his appearance in c.u.c) he is able to
do serious work.

Discussing the content if this web page however is not simple:

If the publisher on Rich's book has all rights on Stevens book too
and Rich is not going to publish his book though different channels
I see no problems. What needs to be discussed too, is how much of the
book similar to Stevens book.

If the web page lists _all_ similarities of a 1000 page book, I see no probl
ems.


BTW: Let me discuss a point from the web page. The text on sigset() is not v
ery
convincing as it does not mention how possible problems should occur and
sigset() of course does set SA_RESTART. If you did read the discussion of th
e
SIGCHLD problem on the POSIX mailing list, you should know that Solaris
may be the only OS where this is handled correctly.


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