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On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Paul Boddie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday 3. July 2016 07.53.04 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 5:59 AM, Hrvoje Lasic <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi Luke, >> > >> > It is all this but i dont believe that reporting him is a good way to >> > handle difficult people. >> >> when they're breaking the terms of service of the site, and they're >> bringing the forum into disrepute as a result.... yeah. >> >> > Ask for advise, do trial&error, dont treat this guy as an enemy but >> > rather >> > >> > opportunity to improve your overall communication and product or if you >> > really think it is not owrthy, ignore him. >> >> on it. > > Yes, it's not worth spending time on these people. Everyone can see that > you've been constructive and actually doing stuff whereas those people are > just pundits, impatiently stamping their feet for people to bring them the > latest and shiniest, having no idea of the cost of anything, and insulting > people trying to educate them. > > I also find it remarkable that so many people care about GPL violations all of > a sudden. They probably all have smartphones whose vendors ship licence- > violating blobs, not to mention the surveillance-enabled firmware all those > things are presumably running, but because they felt that they got a great > deal with their quad-core, multi-gigahertz, big-screen monster they're > probably proud to give those smartphone and chipset vendors their repeated > custom. > > It's also worth noting that people like the Software Freedom Conservancy, who > are regularly criticised by cowardly anti-copyleft trolls for supposedly > making businesses afraid of copyleft, actually believe in constructively > resolving licence violations through as many avenues as possible before even > considering litigation. All those suddenly-vocal people sure have strong > opinions about something they will nevertheless do absolutely nothing about > themselves. > > Myself, I thought it positive that you convinced at least one person to re- > evaluate their position and to take a proper look at the campaign. By staying > positive, all the vocal naysayers are easily seen to be the trolls they really > are. And their forum thread outbursts are easily forgotten as more articles > and news appears, of course. appreciated paul. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
