On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:
> For every purest of the purists there is someone even more purist. ohmmmmmmmmmm.... but seriously: ethical decision-making is an on-off thing. it's either black - you made an ethical decision - or it's white - you made an UNethical decision. you chose CONVENIENCE over making a stand, and saying "no further. the line is HERE". the problem is... people *really* don't like it when you point that out... because people don't normally think in hard black-and-white. which is why you get people going completely off-the-fucking-wall NUTS during question-time at dr stallman's talks. they accuse him of hypocrisy, shout and almost scream at him... just so that they can mentally dismiss everything he said for the past 105 minutes and be able to walk out in a huff. in a way, software libre - the whole FSF thing - is basically the modern-day equivalent of the black rights, slavery freedom / rights, women's rights, and any civil liberties movement you care to name. it's just completely unappreciated as such. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
