I'm sorry if you perceive pointing out logical fallacies as attacking users,
but I'm not sorry for any of the very intelligent and well thought out comments
I made. I know it's difficult to discern the tone of a text message on a screen
on the internet, but as a certain bear we all know says, "ONLY YOU- can choose
to be offended" or something like that. peace and love, and most of all,
critical thinking skills never wasted.
18. Mar 2017 20:18 by onp...@riseup.net:
>
> Libre software is about freedom to control your computing, not freedom to
> choose a proprietary OS. The FSF supports compiling for Windows because it
> helps users to transition to libre software.
>
> Attacking users for making a bad decision (Windows) is unproductive and
> hurtful, but not directly at odds with libre software principles as you
> suggest.
>
> --
> Julie Marchant
> https://onpon4.github.io
> On Mar 18, 2017 8:08 PM, The Canadian Bacon <> wowzama...@gmail.com> > wrote:
>
>> It's funny, GNU is about freedom of choice, yet just about every message I
>> read has people trampling over others choice of operating system.
>> It's appalling to read almost every day these arguments. Yes, sometimes it's
>> hard to support different platforms. I'm a software engineer myself, so I
>> know the complexities of supporting different systems, if the maintainer
>> doesn't want to support said platform I'm not going to argue, but if others
>> are going to bash people for their choices, it's basically like reading
>> poison. Just stop with it, it gets us no where and it goes against the very
>> principal of GNU.
>> I'm at the point where I just want to unsubscribe to the mailing list, it's
>> that bad.
>> On Mar 18, 2017 2:32 PM, "Julie Marchant" <>> onp...@riseup.net>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/18/2017 01:37 PM, >>> awake...@tutanota.de>>> wrote:
>>> > I sense deep treachery however.
>>>
>>> What you "sense" is a conspiracy theory, and it's ridiculous. IceCat is
>>> not important in the grand scheme of things for anyone who isn't a libre
>>> software supporter, so there is no cause for a conspiracy. Further,
>>> there is no evidence for a conspiracy. What you are seeing is nothing
>>> more than user dissatisfaction. It's not just here, either; similar
>>> dissatisfaction has been expressed on the Trisquel forum.
>>>
>>> Personally, I think it would be great if both of these projects could be
>>> handed off to someone else. After all, Ruben is clearly overworked.
>>> However, this is an imperfect world and there don't seem to be any takers.
>>>
>>> Also, even the FSF supports building software for Windows.
>>>
>>> Anyway, please stop flooding my inbox with screeching about your
>>> conspiracy theories. That is not what I am subscribed to this mailing
>>> list for.
>>>
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>>> Julie Marchant
>>> https://onpon4.github.io
>>>
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