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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
Exactly how are teams supposed to react to this kind of behavior?
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The same way engineers do when given design specifications. The English language is imprecise, but "can't grab, grasp, or grapple" is at least highly indicative of the customer's design specs. If an engineer comes up with a solution that can be argued to not grab, grasp, or grapple, and yet it can be argued to do so as well, they'd better be prepared to suck up the opportunity cost of having designed/built that mechanism, because the customer might reject it.
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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
I suppose your other option is to start assuming that a "reasonably astute observer" is actually a perverse killjoy that hates creativity and unexpected situations.
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I think that any "option" that involves ascribing negative characteristics to persons involved on any side of this is wrong-headed. Implying that the GDC hates creativity and unexpected situations is every bit as wrongheaded as implying that 118 was trying to cheat -- neither are true, and either way there's a reason why argumentum ad hominem is a logical fallacy.