On 02/27/2016 10:09 AM, Yui Hirasawa wrote: > Many people who think that are anarchist who also think they should be > allowed to kill. >
I don't think Anarchists say that people should be allowed to kill. Unrelated to that, I think the vast majority of people who say GPL is "viral" and "restrictive" are actually *not* Anarchists. >> Mention practical advantages and they'll say "corporations don't touch >> anything GPL". > > Those people are simply wrong. Many companies use and contribute to GPL > licensed software. > >> Mention the dangers of proprietary software and they'll say it doesn't >> matter if the program in question is practically better. > > You won't convince these people to think that freedom is important. They > only care about usability and sometimes about cost. It is a shame that > some people think that malware can be better in any way. > >> Mention existing famous GPL projects and they'll argue that some of them >> didn't switch to GPLv3 (like Linux and Blender). > > Most of those people don't even know the differences between GPLv2 and > GPLv3 or why some changes vere made. They only know about GPLv3 being > longer and reject it based on that. These are often people who use > X11/Expat or BSD licenses just because they are short and easy to > understand. They don't care about freedom. Making their own life easy is > all that's important to them. > >> Actually, mentioning the GPL at all will get you covered with insults >> and accusations of zealotry. > > It is always a bit funny when zealots call others that. > >> Showing them articles from GNU.org doesn't work, and will only result in >> ad hominem attacks against their author, Richard Stallman. > > Very rarely do they bother to even read those articles. > >> This reminds me of Two Minutes Hate from 1984. >> >> How to reason with those people? They tend to gang up and it's very hard >> to get your point across when everybody is agreeing with one another on >> how stupid and brainwashed you are! > > You can't reason with people who only care about their own life and not > about helping the humanity. I would recommend not going to the channels > and talking about it publicly but trying to spot the less brainwashed > individuals and talk to them in private and after you have gotten a few > of them on your side you could possibly try to bring it up on the > channel. >
