On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
On 12/22/06, manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not really... The government can buy generic drugs and not get the
formula in the process: but the price and the terms are public
information.
That's because they are GENERIC. No need to get the formula.
How can a bill about Software in Government be technology neutral?
It does not favor a particular technology. It favors, however, the
freedoms granted by some FOSS licenses.
See the definition #1: "the absence of necessity, coercion, or
constraint in choice or action"
So requiring the government to choose FOSS over Proprietary Software
in all cases unless absolutely unavoidable is freedom?
Yes. In the same way that the government can REQUIRE citizens to obey the
law and pay taxes. Those are part of freedom. Unbridled choice is not the
freedom we are talking about here (as if that were really freedom anyway).
I have not made any misrepresentations here. I have been arguing to
show that the FOSS bill is against my convictions on fairness and
equality.
Well, I have pointed out that your arguments for doing that involve
misrepresenting twhat the bill mandates. So you are therefore engaginn in
misrepresentation (first definition, not second).
Misrepresentation is pretending to be something you're not.
That's definition 2. You forgot definition 1.
Garbage eh? So is that why you haven't made a solid argument against
what I've been saying?
I sank your "loophole" argument a long time ago, Dean. That's pretty
solid.
Now, just because I make the most convincing argument (or most
STRIDENT MISREPRESENTATION as you would call it) or am the most
adamant opposition shouldn't give you the "righteousness" to make
claims such that I am misrepresenting the bill.
Strident yes, but convincing? Merry Christmas!
The bottom line is that your alleged loophole doesn't exist. And you have
misrepresented what the bill says when you claim it allows such things as
Hello World programs to be considered as solutions.
God bless!
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