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 > > > -- Phil Maker email: <philip.ma...@gmail.com> phoneemail: <philmakerph...@gmail.com> -- email to phone (fastest) phone: +61 (0)447 630 229 "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