"Russel Winder" <rus...@russel.org.uk> wrote in message news:mailman.528.1319696286.24802.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > Chante wrote: > "Timon Gehr" <timon.g...@gmx.ch> wrote in message=20 > news:j88jq8$1brb$1...@digitalmars.com... >=20 > >[Free software] is software that respects the freedom of its end > >users. >=20 > Software is inanimate and non-human and cannot "respect" anything. The= =20 > mire of propaganda that spews from "entitled" GPL fanboys is > astounding.
>If you want to make a case against using the GPL for software let it be >done with civil argument, not off-hand disparaging hate mail. It's hardly an inappropriate categorization of the typical "zealot", "fanboy", GPLer. C'mon, call a spade a spade. No hate needed. It's a common observation.