09.03.09
August’s Golden Flying Chairlet Award Goes to ‘Seller Liar’
THIS MONTH’S Golden Flying Chairlet Award (for August) goes to member ‘Seller Liar’, who provided us with valuable information about Mono, Java, and .NET. █
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Richard said,
September 4, 2009 at 12:52 am
… would this be the same “seller_liar” who can barely form a cohesive sentence, let alone a reasonable discussion point? The one who has never been seen to provide any argumentation or evidence whatsoever for his ridiculous assertions? The author of gems like:
- “nathive developer does not like mono because of lack of ethics”
- “Novell is the wrong way to write software”
- “novell helps microsoft in api domination”
- “c is better ,have closures and other stupid things”
… that guy? He’s your source of “valuable information”?
This explains so much.
Roy Schestowitz Reply:
September 4th, 2009 at 2:12 am
English is not his first language.
seller_liar said,
September 4, 2009 at 2:40 am
Thanks Roy !
But ,of course, I’m not a expert about mono and other things…
My recommendation for next award is joseX ,slated and twitter