Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > [snip two similar points] > I quote from my original Palemoon comment:
Unfortunately, you quote a non-sequitur -- the same one as before, i.e., you have ignored the point a second time. Paraphrased: 'Upstream devs said something I don't like and that I consider inexcusable, -ergo- I removed the thing they created from all of my computers.' That literally _doesn't follow_ -- and qualifies as (with apologies to non-native English speakers, for whom this antique saying will be a bit opaque 'cutting off your nose to spite your face'.[1] You can use the unbranded code you find useful in a fully open source manner without any dealings with the upstream devs whatsoever, so your opinion that the latter have behaved like asshats lacks any obvious relevance. And, by the way, I've walked the walk, on this. In my online personal FAQ item starting in 1999 explaining why I preferred to preferred not to run Prof. Dan Bernstein's software (and I was thinking primarily of qmail, that I was admining professionally at the time, and djbdns), the FAQ item Bernstein threw a public tantrum about and amended his pages to attempt to impugn my character, I nowhere said anything remotely like 'I decline to run Dan's software because he's a notorious flaming asshat.' My reasons were all procedural and technical. > Mr. Boss was insulting and threatened legal action, in the very first > communication. When someone's first reaction is to lawyer-threaten, I > have nothing further to do with the guy. And, _right there_, you make the error of identifying the asshat with open source code created by the asshat -- even though your making use of that code need never require you to interact in any way with that person. _Because open source._ Get it? That's your bug. You should patch it. (For the record, when Dan made semi-deniable sort-of legal threats against me in e-mail for 'libel' [sic] against his software, I laughed, reiterated to him that I'd gladly correct any factual errors, stated that as far as I was able to tell my FAQ item was both factually accurate and in violation of no laws, and gave him the name of my attorney in the event of him disagreeing and feeling a compulsion to pursue legal process: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/dan-brandishing-legal-threats ) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_off_the_nose_to_spite_the_face _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
