Final answer to the Social Contract Question from Phil Maker
1. Since I've only got two options (:-)) I choose "I do not adhere" which
should be read as after
a bit of investigation and time wasting that this is a very bad idea.
Every rock you lift up has
something under it (who, why, how, ....). I'm with RMS on this.
2. Feel free to publish my name as a dissident. This is to suggest I
disagree is fine, but to suggest
I not adhere to some of your standards would be unfortunate. Using the
word dissident is fine.
Have a good one.
On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 9:14 AM Brian.Tiffin <brian.tif...@0x9design.com>
wrote:
>
> Phil Maker wrote:
> > Ludovic, ...,
> >
> > Re the Social Contract I'm sure greater minds than mine have looked at
> > it but I feel obliged to make some sort of response of which the next
> > paragraph is the only
> > important one.
> >
> > Given the two options "I endorse" or "I do not adhere to" may I be bold
> as
> > to choose
> > the third option, i.e. no thanks, not interested, neither answer is
> > acceptable to me.
> > Please be so kind as to record that somewhere and if you make any public
> > lists of
> > responses it would be nice to put that in.
> >
> >
> Totally agree with Phil on this one. I voted no on even holding these
> discussions in a public area, months ago now. Still don't want to take
> part.
>
> So, you'll find my imaginary non endorsement tucked inside my letter to
> Santa.
>
> If that sounds like an unkind swipe, it is. I have no inclination to
> think that any, ANY, of these current modes of communication are well
> intended; responses will not be veiled as well intended or kind. Akin
> to when you may have to slap someone in the face when they are risking
> themselves and others in a state of panic. Sowing discontent with a
> polite smile is not good, it smacks of evil and willful ignorance.
>
> I'll add that I'd like to be removed from any further imaginary fair-use
> of the email address that was scraped from fencepost, Ludovic. Make
> that removal real, please. You were not given my permission for use of
> that information for that purpose. And now you are given an explicit
> demand to cease and desist. The fact that that information might happen
> to match what I may have exposed on gnu-misc-discuss and other lists is
> irrelevant. Cease and desist usage for those imaginary purposes.
> Personally speaking, there is no i in my concept of team GNU. There is
> "me", Richard Stallman and those he deems worthy of the Gnuisance moniker.
>
> This us versus them wedge is imaginary; the fallout and after effects
> are and will be real, and in my opinion, damagingly so.
>
> Have good, make real
>
>
>
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Phil Maker
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"Think on this doctrine, that reasoning beings were created for one
another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin
without intending it" -- Marcus Aurelius
