Comment by bgwalter
2 months ago
Most people here would be interested in Rob Pike's opinion. What you quote is from someone commenting on Rob's post.
The way that Rob's opinion here is deflected, first by focusing on the fact that he got a spam mail and then this misleading quote ("myself" does not refer to Rob) is very sad.
The spam mail just triggered Rob's opinion (the one that normal people are interested in).
This comment deserves to be ranked higher. I 100% interpreted the quote as coming from Rob Pike.
Both are intellectually gratifying, to me. I think the only mistake they made was leaving the attribution ambiguous.
>"Rob's opinion (the one that normal people are interested in)."
I think you have an overinflated notion of what "normal people" care about
Pike's name is what people are clicking on here. That's being abused to sell this random comment about IP.
Dont try to tell us what we are choosing to focus on. Everything in the message from Pike and the comments below his post are relevant. There was no assumption in my mind that this was all about Pike.
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