[Linux-aus] The Ada Initiative - Should Linux Australia support it?

Russell Coker russell at coker.com.au
Sat Feb 26 13:38:20 EST 2011


On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, david at davidnewall.com wrote:
> Russell Coker:
> > Silvia's interpretation of your email was almost identical to mine.
> > When your   email is consistently interpreted in a way that differs from
> > your intent then   you should consider whether it's your writing ability
> > that's lacking not other   people's ability to interpret it.
> 
> With hundreds of people reading this list, I don't believe two failures in
> communication represents a consistent problem.  In one of those cases the
> correspondant repeatedly drew the same incorrect meaning despite my
> various attempts to correct the misunderstanding.  That looks very much
> like willfulness rather than mistake.

You can also add Donna and Andrew Pam to the list.

Your inability to see any evidence of women being mistreated in the IT 
industry is starting to seem more like willfulness than a mistake.

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