On Thursday, October 27, 2011 10:05 Steve Teale wrote: > > I actually agree, and have espoused this view myself in the past. If > > this was the reasoned argument that was actually made, instead of "free > > as in herpes", then I would have no problem with it. > > I wish I'd never posted the item in the first place - it was intended as > a kind of meta-meta-comment. I had just never heard the herpes analogy > before. > > Can we all just relax and go back to where we were.
It was a bit funny, but naturally folks ended up turning it into a serious discussion, and it's a rather heated topic, so I don't think that it's all that surprising that it ended up this way. - Jonathan M Davis