Let me be very clear on this: I am very much pro open source and I have my own ideological ideas about a lot of things.
Yet, I refuse to acknowledge we live in a world without any consensus about any ideology, so the only way you can work within an ideological frame is using facts. And as much as I'm pro open source, rigorously trying to block any access to paid software is not only hypocrite (there is an octave binary for both Windows and Mac, although you can't accuse either of them of being philantropic when it comes to sofwarte). It is just ignoring the facts stated. People use tools if they're useful, not because the ideology that's behind them. If the latter was the case, nobody would use Windows or drive a car. You have a car? Cheers Joris 2011/11/20 Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.ville...@ens.fr>: > Joris Meys <jorism...@gmail.com> writes: > >> 2011/11/18 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jord...@octave.org>: >> I'm not going into the discussion about which license represents what. >> I hate politics and ideological discussions because of all the blabla. >> I'm a statistician. I work with facts. > > The barrier that you seem to see between what you call "facts" and what > you call "politics" is entirely artificial. > > Politics has a direct impact on facts: without the political idealism of > the free software pioneers and of GNU in particular, free software would > not be a "fact" of today's world, and we would only have proprietary > software. Without the political idealism of the past centuries > revolutionaries, we would still leave under tyranny in the western > world. > > Politics definitely matters and is not just "blabla": it shapes world > facts and our whole life. So, even if your arguments deserve > consideration, please don't be so rude against people who upheld the > idealism of the free software movement. > > Best, > > -- > Sébastien Villemot > Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer > http://www.dynare.org/sebastien > Phone: +33-1-40-77-49-90 - GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594 > -- Joris Meys Statistical consultant Ghent University Faculty of Bioscience Engineering Department of Mathematical Modelling, Statistics and Bio-Informatics tel : +32 9 264 59 87 joris.m...@ugent.be ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
