Where is the "like" button when you need it?

2011/11/20 Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.ville...@ens.fr>:
> Joris Meys <jorism...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 2011/11/18 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jord...@octave.org>:
>> I'm not going into the discussion about which license represents what.
>> I hate politics and ideological discussions because of all the blabla.
>> I'm a statistician. I work with facts.
>
> The barrier that you seem to see between what you call "facts" and what
> you call "politics" is entirely artificial.
>
> Politics has a direct impact on facts: without the political idealism of
> the free software pioneers and of GNU in particular, free software would
> not be a "fact" of today's world, and we would only have proprietary
> software. Without the political idealism of the past centuries
> revolutionaries, we would still leave under tyranny in the western
> world.
>
> Politics definitely matters and is not just "blabla": it shapes world
> facts and our whole life. So, even if your arguments deserve
> consideration, please don't be so rude against people who upheld the
> idealism of the free software movement.
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Sébastien Villemot
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