At 11:11 AM 7/29/2001, you wrote:
> > >If the _use_ of software is affected, and it is,
> > >then this is user issue. Education is the issue,
> > >we are educating users to the loss of rights.
> >
> > This is simply stretching the definition of "education" to validate an
> > opinion which I do not share.
~snip~
*Offering* opinion and information so the UG members can make a valid
CHOICE is one thing.....allowing no competing view is quite another.
I don't believe education can responsibly include "you musts" or "this
is the way it is so live with its". Those, IMHO, are features of propagandists.
Let's look at this another way...is the *potential* loss of rights to a small
minority which does not unduly alter *their* quality of life worth their
sacrifice
so that the environment can naturally select conditions that ultimately benefit
the vast majority? In some cases no, in this case YES! (Again, my opinion,
not fact and to the chagrin of some, not conjecture yet still wholly valid!!).
You don't have to like what I say necessarily and are free to turn me off.
However, if you disallow others the right to choose to hear me, you are as
guilty as
those you say you're fighting.
- jk
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