On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 12:34, Sergio Manzi <[email protected]> wrote: > I strongly dissent with the tone of your mail. > That is your right. Even if you are strongly dissenting about somebody expressing strong dissent, it is your right.
> Everybody, not only you and the most vocifeferous ones, have the right to > express their opinion. > Indeed. I strongly support everyone's right to express their opinion. As far as I am concerned, you can say whatever you want. But you cannot force me, or anyone else, to listen. Interacting with others in a way that stops them listening to you is not an effective way of getting your point across. YMMV. > You can dissent, but the tone of your mail is definitely rude and divisive. > Rude??? I refrained from giving my opinion of the guy (which is something most people would consider to be extremely negative) and merely told him what options were available to him since he is dissatisfied with the current situation. The OSM community has given a great deal of thought to copyright issues to arrive at their position and I don't see much chance of them moving to his position, a position they explicitly state is (in their opinion) not tenable. His only feasible options are to live with what we have, stop mapping, set up a competing project, or continue to rant incomprehensibly here. Should he continue to rant here then he's likely to end up in killfiles. Telling him that isn't rude, it's advising him that he is not doing himself any favours with his current behaviour. > Think twice. > I thought three times before I posted. You would certainly have thought the second version of my post to be extremely rude. And you would have had a conniption fit over the first version. What I actually posted refrained from rebuking him and instead offered a stark, unadorned explanation of the options open to him. -- Paul
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