On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
Transparency can only be defined between two parties. It doesn't
require that something be available to the public for it to be
transparent
Unless the transactions involve PUBLIC MONEY. You forgot that.
Here you go again. Read section 6 again, and look at the GPLed "Hello,
World!" example I've been touting forever and ever.
More scare tactics. That ain't a loophole and nobody can make that stick,
except maybe in some paranoid FUDmeister's fantasy.
THE FOSS BILL IS A TECHNOLOGY ISSUE!!!
Wrong again. It's a FREEDOM ISSUE. The bill is technology-neutral. It does
not advocate any technology. But it does promote a way of dealing with
technology thru the license. The license of a software solution is just as
valid a standard for judging its merit as any "technical" issue you can
dream of because it too has real, practical implications for the software,
its cost, and its use. It may not be the only one (and the FOSS bill doe
snot make it the only one), but it's just as important a standard.
You may want to avoid the freedom issue just to make your FUD stick, but
it just isn't being bought by everyone.
If you cannot see this in the bill's current form, then you either
have major brain damage, or have been drinking too much RMS' koolaid
-- or reading a different bill.
Oh wow, I am SSOOOO hurt. Grow up.
I am not misrepresenting anything:
I think you ARE. You can deny it all you like, but your posts tell a
different story.
I make no attempt of representing the bill: we already have the
(silent) authors of the bill on the list. Only THEY can make a
representation of this abomination called the FOSS bill.
Uh, no. So can you.
Here's the definition of "misrepresent" from Merriam-Webster:
1 : to give a false or misleading representation of usually with
an intent to deceive or be unfair <misrepresented the facts>
2 : to serve badly or improperly as a representative of
You are not guilty of the second definition. That's true. You are,
however, guilty of the first. You give a FALSE or MISLEADING
representation of thje FOSS bill, especially with that nutty "Hello World"
alleged "loophole". It's quite ridiculous really.
I ignore your trying to make me look so because I continue to exercise
my democratic rights to air my thoughts and stand on a public mailing
list which apparently you have taken to a new level by posting
libelous statements of my alleged misrepresentation of the FOSS bill.
Try suing me. Any half-ass lawyer can make you look foolish. I'll enjoy
that one too.
What made you think I'm trying to deceive anybody when all I've been
doing is airing *MY* interpretation of the bill's motives?
Your interpretation CAN misrepresent, as can anyone's. Just because it's
your opinion doesn't mean it cannot deceive, or do the opposite and tell
the truth. See the definition of "misrepresent" above.
obvious yet, I'll make it obvious for everyone else now: you hate my
guts for opposing this FOSS bill because YOU STAND TO GAIN FROM IT.
Ouch, ouch! Bwahahaha!
I wouldn't be any happier or richer if you were discredited, or proven to
be a pedophile, or even Bill Gates in disguise. You get my responses
because you make the MOST STRIDENT MISREPRESENTATIONS of the FOSS bill.
I don't have anything against you, but I have something against the
garbage you post here. You keep posting it, so you keep getting the
fallout from it.
If you can't take the heat, stop whining and leave the kitchen.
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do what we ought. -- Pope John Paul II
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