On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 12:28:51AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > This is an absurd misrepresentation. No-one is threatening to prevent you > using the words the FSF disapprove of.
And yet, an argument about the merits of saying "free software" versus saying "open source" is nothing more than an attempt to push a particular political stance. It's a waste of time and divisive all at once, when there are more important things to talk about. > And the rest of your mail is insulting. Hardly. A Lewis Carroll quote to illustrate my feelings about this form of zealotry and the a mention of one of the most grievous shortcomings of the GNU/Linux-based world today hardly qualify as insult. The notion that a portion of the community doesn't know what they're saying when they use choose to use certain language *is* insulting, however. This particular discussion doesn't a have anything important at the end, like the recent systemd ruction. It's conflict for its own sake, and I'd prefer that it be kept where it was. I can think of no reason why it has to move to debian-project from IRC beyond a hope that the argument can be won by pressing down from above, as it were. -- Mason Loring Bliss (( If I have not seen as far as others, it is because [email protected] )) giants were standing on my shoulders. - Hal Abelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
