Timeline for Is this question about processor licensing off-topic?
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| Apr 6, 2017 at 13:50 | comment | added | Ramhound | The first thing I think of, when I read an answer that starts out with "this might be correct" or "this isn't really an answer to your question", is did the person even confirm what they said is true? | |
| Apr 6, 2017 at 13:48 | comment | added | Ramhound | So "able to be trusted as being accurate or true; reliable", and "commanding and self-confident; likely to be respected and obeyed" and straight from Webster's mouth: "ossessing recognized or evident authority: clearly accurate or knowledgeable" are the definations of the word. So I don't believe i am using the word wrong. When I say an authorative answer I mean an answer written by somebody that comes across "commanding and self-confident" and thus the answer will be "likely to be respected and obeyed" (more accurately the answer is written in a way where it is trusted to be correct) | |
| Apr 6, 2017 at 12:57 | comment | added | Adam Wykes | @Ramhound To me, an authoritative answer is one coming from an authority. It is not simply a "good" answer; it is one given by an authority on the subject. In your official capacity as "random internet guy" on stack exchange, one is definitively not a recognized authority in ANY subject. Stack Exchange exists because apart from experts and authorities, there is consensus and individual research, both of which have their place in my lines of inquiry. I think you are misusing the site if you believe answers found here are "authoritative" | |
| Apr 6, 2017 at 11:48 | comment | added | Ramhound | @AdamWykes I respectfully disagree. Just because you don't want an authorative answer doesn't mean we shouldn't strive for authorative answers otherwise we will just get "well I think this might help" type answers (which again if I wanted that quality of an answer I would have came to Superuser). I am not sure how you can not agree authorative answers are a good thing? | |
| Apr 6, 2017 at 6:12 | comment | added | fixer1234 | @AdamWykes, Please don't feel that people are being adversarial or ganging up on you. You've had a lot of well-received posts and people value your contribution to the site. The site guidelines are purposely a bit vague to allow flexibility, so articulating why certain things are off-topic isn't always easy, particularly when people are looking at the question from very different perspectives. There's a difference between acquiescing and understanding, and it wasn't clear from your comment whether you understood why. I wasn't trying to be redundant, just offering another explanation. | |
| Apr 6, 2017 at 5:40 | comment | added | Adam Wykes | @fixer1234 And if that were one of the stipulations about asking questions on this site that I had seen on the FAQ page I read, I'd never have asked the question. Anyone else care to say the same basic thing that I've actually already agreed to already? | |
| Apr 6, 2017 at 5:37 | comment | added | fixer1234 | @AdamWykes, "my question would actually be better paraphrased as what is it that prevents x86 CPU makers from licensing tech"--that would also be off-topic. SU is about personal computer hardware and software. To the extent user license terms affect your ability to use your computer, that would tend to be on-topic within certain limits. But questions about one manufacturer licensing another manufacturer's technology for their future computer designs really isn't about solving problems with the computer you own. | |
| Apr 6, 2017 at 5:17 | comment | added | Adam Wykes | @allquixotic Seeing as how my question would actually be better paraphrased as "what is it that prevents x86 CPU makers from licensing tech" - which might have included technical reasons or licensing reasons - it was a lot more like those questions than Ramhound's characterization is. But don't get it twisted - I deleted the question because I agree with you in that since everyone and their mother seems to think it MUST be a human decisions kind of thing, it doesn't really fit in here. | |
| Apr 6, 2017 at 5:13 | comment | added | Adam Wykes | @Ramhound There is, though. | |
| Apr 6, 2017 at 4:20 | comment | added | allquixotic | @AdamWykes I have to agree with Ramhound that the other two questions you linked are very different from the one you have deleted. Neither one is a "human factors" question (both the question and the answers are about things -- CPUs, software licenses, etc.) whereas in the question you deleted, the question is about the behavior or decisions of people. That's why those other two questions have been upvoted and not closed. | |
| Apr 5, 2017 at 23:23 | comment | added | Ramhound | There isn't anything incoherent about my comment. | |
| Apr 5, 2017 at 23:16 | comment | added | Adam Wykes | @Ramhound, I have to admit that I find the above answer much more coherent and useful than your expansion upon it. Your interpretation is at odds with parts of this answer, and I find your slavish dedication to authority inimical to the spirit of DIY investigation that Stack Exchange works on. If I need authority, I'll go to the manufacturer, my misguided friend. | |
| Apr 5, 2017 at 22:31 | comment | added | Ramhound | There is nothing wrong with, Windows 7 Licensing - Old Computer to New, that is a good example of what type of license questions are on topic. | |
| Apr 5, 2017 at 22:30 | comment | added | Ramhound | AMD hardware design specifics: why slower at “numerical” tasks? isn't even a question about a license. The word doesn't even appear in the question once. | |
| Apr 5, 2017 at 22:29 | comment | added | Ramhound | As for my position on authorative answers, if I wanted "maybe, perhaps, could be, I believe" type answers I would go to Yahoo Answers or Quroa for my answers to my questions. | |
| Apr 5, 2017 at 22:27 | comment | added | Ramhound | @AdamWykes - In order for a question about a software license to be on topic, we must be able to quote the terms of the license itself, otherwise we can't even read the license in order to submit an authorative answer. It is my believe that, any answer that isn't written from a authorative position isn't all that helpful. The question about a license can also move into a gray area of if something is legal, questions asking if something is legal, are also not on topic, might not even be on topic at Law Stack Exchange | |
| Apr 5, 2017 at 19:44 | vote | accept | Adam Wykes | ||
| Apr 5, 2017 at 19:40 | comment | added | Adam Wykes | I appreciate the perspective. Other unmolested questions, two of which are linked above, had led me (erroneously, it would seem) to believe that licensing surrounding technology was an acceptable topic. It still rankles me that this was not the actual reason supplied by those seeking to close my question, but I do accept and understand your interpretation. | |
| Apr 5, 2017 at 19:24 | history | answered | allquixotic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |