In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> begin In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on > 09/27/2006 > at 02:27 PM, Barry Margolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >Whether they should be able to is of purely academic interest. The > >fact is that they *did* do this, and this is what the phrase "free > >software" now means in the industry. > > No, although I'm sure that you'd like that to be true, just as m$ > would like us to believe that windoze is user friendly. > > >You can dislike it all you want, but you > >can't legitimately claim that it didn't happen, > > He can't legitimately claim that the attempt didn't happen; he can > legitimately claim that he isn't and shouldn't be bound by the > attempt. Language is defined by the community. If you don't feel you're bound by it, fine, but don't expect to be able to carry on a conversation. You're just going to cause confusion or appear to be a kook. -- Barry Margolin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group *** _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
