On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 2:28 PM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On May 29, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > >> >> You're contradicting yourself: You're saying hamakor-discussions isn't >> interesting because it's "discussions about FOSS rather than FOSS", >> but now that we have a discussion, which is even less FOSS-specific than >> usual, you don't think it doesn't belong in hamakor-discussions? >> > > No,there are always exceptions to the rules, and this is one of them. For > the one in a year discussion about it that made its way here, I'm not going > to join another list. > > As for it belonging on another list, I don't really care. It's here, and > until Marc says that it goes, it IMHO stays. > > > But seriously, many of us (including me) already posted their opinion >> on this matter in hamakor-discussions, and I for one don't want to repeat >> myself on a second list. >> > > > Don't. > > We can have our own discussion without you, just as the people on the other > lists can have one without me. There can be multiple discussions, by > different (and overlaping) groups of people about the same topic. Probably > even in multiple languages. > > Both mailing lists have public archives ( discussions is on http://hamakor.org.il/pipermail/discussions/2011-May/thread.html). Thus, it is enough to point that a live discussion goes on there, and those who wish to read opinions which were already voiced can do so easily. No need to copy-paste. This is the beauty of the online archive, which behaves like a forum (pull-based, upon request) as opposed to the push-based mailing list. > Note that hamakor-discussions is in Hebrew, while this list is in English. > That's enough reason IMHO to keep it going and to keep it separate. Bear in > mind that not everyone in or interested in FOSS in Israel reads or writes > Hebrew, and I'm sure RMS doesn't and the Palestinians who are sponsoring his > trip probably do not. > > > > Geoff. > -- > Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM > Making your enemy reliant on software you support is the best revenge. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org
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