On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 15:52 -0500, Richard Pieri wrote: > Ideology is all well and good but at the > end of the day it doesn't get the job done.
No. Ideology is just a description of the ideals, sorted according to priority and often references the most important in that instance. Getting the job done is an ideology, which according to your logic "is all well and good but doesn't get the job done". Which sounds illogical, because it's nonsense. What you mean to say is "The ideal of short term job being done is more important to me than my or client freedom or long term growth of software" I don't mean to suggest your ideology or priority is wrong. It might be more right. But you shouldn't just bash ideologies other than your own by excluding your own from the definition and then debasing. *Sometimes* some Free Software will imped your short term job; but that's not because the ideology of Free Software is faulty. It's just a product of momentum and popularity. Popular and fast moving free software exists and is extremely potent: And it's strong because it's Free Software not despite it. It will be even stronger with your support though. Martin Owens _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss