On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:57:08AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Yes, I think that not only free programs have cornered the > > market for being useful and important (unless you are a zealot, when > > this is all moot anyway).
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:33:25PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > Y'see, that's the reason why I'm trying to avoid this part of the > discussion. You have implied I meant something other than what I said, > and thrown in an assertion that anybody who does not agree with you is > a "zealot" (which may be technically correct [One who holds a strong > opinion which you do not entertain], but which you imply has negative > connotations [which is a pretty narrow reading of the dictionary]). Except... a zealot is unreasoning. Or are you claiming that if you participated in this discussion you'd still be unreasoning? > It's exactly like trying to discuss a security hole with an upstream > author who calls you a "hacker" all the time (in every respect I can > think of). Except, here, "the upstream author" is trying to hold the discussion, and the "hacker" is refusing to discuss relevant details. -- Raul