the hacker said:
I said no such thing
it's silly to argue about this. this is what you said:
For the users who refuse to learn, to adapt, and to grow, they can stagnate and stay in their own nice warm puddle.
you also said this:
if my code works in 13 browsers, and fails in MSIE, my code is not the problem. I do, however, refuse to add "hacks" to get MSIE to do what it should be doing anyway... following the standards.
those aren't the types of things michael hart would say. there's no reason to get all up in a huff. i'm not telling you that you need to change. on most days, i share your feelings. and i have said often that every e-book-related innovation will come sniffing for a chance to work with this library, and needs to prove its ability to handle it to earn its stripes. so i'm not faulting you for being here. that's why i'm here. but what you've said here is _not_ what michael would say. so the simple fact is that yours is _not_ the attitude that has guided project gutenberg from where it started to today. the mission here has been to do _whatever_it_might_take_ for those e-texts to be available to the maximum audience. among the many things that that has meant is to work with the _trailing_ edge, not the _leading_ edge, of technology. and that strategy hasn't caused it to "stagnate", but rather what has caused it to grow into the biggest cyber-library... -bowerbird