Alexander Terekhov <[email protected]> writes: > Hyman Rosen wrote: > [...] >> I don't know why Nimmer thinks this is double-speak. > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/x.html > > http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/fighting+fire+with+fire > > "The idea of copyleft is that we should fight fire with fireāthat we > should use copyright to make sure our code stays free. " > > is utter nonsense. Using copyright "to make sure our code stays free" is > utter nonsense.
Employing prisons so that people can move freely on the streets is similar "nonsense". At one point of time you have to deal with reality and relative evils. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
