Yui Hirasawa <y...@cock.li> writes: >>>> Mention "freedom" and they'll say the GPL is "restrictive" and >>>> "viral". >>> >>> Many people who think that are anarchist who also think they should >>> be allowed to kill. >> >> It's very unfortunate you'd think this way. I too find the GPL >> restricts some freedom, but understand the need for it and advocate >> its use over permissive licenses. And I'm an anarchist, but I don't >> think I should be allowed to kill. I don't know what kind of >> anarchists you met, but no one I know thinks they should be allowed to >> kill. > > If you reread my mail you will see that I didn't say that all anarchist > think that you should be allowed to kill. But these people specifically > think that their freedom should be ultimate to the point where they are > allowed to do things that harm others. > >> Back to the point, I agree that the battle is uphill when trying to >> convince someone who's alredy made up his mind about software freedom. >> But it's not a lost battle, and if you don't fight back on public >> forums, you give the impression they are right. You aren't really >> trying to convince them, but showing other readers that there's >> another way. > > You make a valid point that it might make a them appear to be right when > you don't contest them, that is very unfortunate indeed. Of course if > you don't mind getting called names and other stuff then you should > definitely call them out when they are saying things that are bullshit. >
Stop that please. "The violence shocked Proudhon" Keep that in your mind. -- Aurélien DESBRIÈRES