merit

Debating it on the merits is going to make you lose.

What merit is there in rooting for failure for failure's sake?

Obviously, they don't work for everyone, and they aren't foolproof, but I'm of the opinion that they still have some merit.

This is very overreaching and I feel this way after reading her blogpost, before I thought her complaint had merit but not now.

"Trying to say something that actually gets to the merit of the bill is a waste of time on a Sunday morning talk show... it's just too complicated an issue.

So, I think saying that his opinion that something was stupid is a counter-indicator of its degree of success doesn't have much merit.

Mostly because the Linux desktop market has been such a small part of the whole desktop market as to barely merit a full pixel width in a pie chart of desktop OSes.

It doesn't matter how lousy a programmer you are, you can still transform an industry by simple merit of being the first person to seriously write software for it.

These positions in large companies are often obviously filled with friends with no merit, technical know how, or leadership ability.

And then folks have the gall to bicker and argue over whether the project even has fundamental merit, on the very thread that the author tries to show the "community" what he/she has made.

Full of horrid legacy systems that are built to flip-- specifically, to be "interesting" enough to merit a promotion for the original architect, who then moves on before it goes into maintenance phase and falls to pieces.