> Why do you even bother responding if you're not going to actually refute my
reasoning?
I am not interested in fighting with you, regardless if you consider that the
only valid reason for providing a response. I am getting tired of all this.
It is impossible to discuss anything intelligently and sanely if one side is
attached to the authority of a person/organization/rule-set/ideology. Talking
about freedom is not freedom, especially if one refuses to look at things
freely, without evaluating everything through a set of 10 (or 4)
commandments.
> I don't think your other points are worth the investment of time and effort
needed to respond to them.
The questions weren't even put to you specifically, so if you are replying
just to underline how worthless they are such reply hardly has any value. It
is utterly stupid to say that every proprietary program is 'maybe malware'
which really means 'it is most certainly malware'. I can write print("Hello
world") and compile it, close it, encrypt it, put a limit to its use and sell
it for $1. Is that malware? Can it spy on you or harm you in any way? Don't
answer to me. Answer for yourself. That doesn't mean I encourage proprietary
things, I don't. But I discourage even more one not using one's brain and
sanity for the sake of conforming to whatever ideology. Ideologies are
limiting, they are more dangerous than proprietary things because deny the
possibility of man to look at thing objectively, without bias.
> You're just looking for excuses to dismiss my arguments.
Your so called arguments are only aimed to be that - arguments, on a verbal,
superficial level. They show you have not looked at the depth of the
questions and what is behind the written text (which was the whole idea). So
I don't need an excuse for not replying to a reply which was aimed only to
twist the context of the original questions in a direction in which you
simply feel comfortable to argue.
> You're trying to prove that libre software ideals are impractical
It is much more than that. They are impossible. You can't put the unlimited
in the limited and call it free, or libre, or whatever fancy word one may
like. Man has tried that for thousands of years. It never worked and it never
will.
