On Sunday, 31 August 2014 at 09:23:28 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Shoot, "pragmatic" distros like Mint and Ubuntu have done FAR more to get people onboard with, and embracing, and pushing for more open software than ANY purity distro. This is plainly evident. He can't *not* see it.
What distro are they based on? :)
It's basic marketing: Offer them what they want.
Sure, but it's technically impossible yet. Hence things are the way they are. There's no easy way to talk away real technical issues.
*No* amount of well-reasoned well-explained logic works, at least not on any meaningful scale. People don't get logic, people don't like reason, people don't give a crap what sounds good on paper or what's in their best interest. "In my best interest" is boring. Dancing cats aren't.
If people don't get logic, don't ask Stallman to appeal to logic, because, as you correctly pointed out, there's no point to do that.
