Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > > > > I still did not get the point. Many many people seems to enjoy Britney > > Spears. Does it mean that Britney Spears is wonderful? > > Musical (or other) tastes are almost entirely matters of opinion.
Correct. > > > > Many people in France thinks that Republic is something heavily linked > > to Democracy, despite the fact the Republic model was clearly an > > oligarchy. > > > > Something can be popular and also completely wrong. > > If you would have read the thread, or my opinions on 'open source' > versus 'free software' (consider this an exercise in Googling), you > would know *I agree with you* What difference does it make? You can agree with me about this subject and however present arguments that I consider pointless: for instance, what does it mean if an expression is popular? > , and so you didn't need to write a bunch of embarassingly stupid > and incorrect examples. These examples are correct. Musical taste is not a matter of popularity. For the kernel example, unless you assume that most users are familiar with kernel design, most people use a popular term to describe something else than the kernel. And the fact that in France many people ignore the concept they are refering to makes sense too: the word Republic is popular but misused. > So invariant sections are a failure both philosophically and > pragmatically, which is typical of non-free things. Was the message you are answering to talking about invariant sections? -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english