On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:27:15AM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > %% Dominik Vogt <fvwm-workers@fvwm.org> writes: > > >> And so it goes. > > dv> It should be clear by now that I would not object to more of these > dv> statements. Other people have the same right to do so as I have. > > So, let me ask you this. > > Suppose someone adds an "ethical license" you don't agree with. Would > you continue to work on FVWM? On the assumption the answer is "no", > wouldn't you feel upset that someone had imposed their ethics on your > work, and had essentially co-opted all the hard work you've done on FVWM > over the years, so that you could no longer in good conscience work on > it? > > And now that we have seen that all (?) of the other FVWM developers > don't agree with the inclusion of the license, and some don't agree with > the ethics behind it either, what should we do? Surely these people > also feel like their hard work is being co-opted for purposes they don't > agree with, or at least in ways they don't agree with, and which are > completely unrelated to FVWM. > > >> So what do you have then? Ironically enough, what you probably > >> have is that only people who are _not_ ethical will be using your > >> software... to me this seems counterproductive in the extreme. > > dv> That is all true if such a flood of statements would come. But as > dv> it is, I do not fear this possibility. People on this list have > dv> proven time and again that this kind of 'war' is extremely > dv> unlikely to happen. > > Hm. So you believe it's OK to do this because everyone else objects to > the idea that FVWM is an appropriate forum for political statements and > so they won't take advantage of it, leaving you the only person who does?
*Shrug* This discussion is becoming moot. I will not tolerate anymore that my work takes a part in killing. If the only way to do it is to stop development of fvwm and somehow prevent that fvwm is distributed, then I have to do my best to make that happen. Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
