On 01/04/2010 02:05 AM, Idan Gazit wrote: > > On Jan 4, 2010, at 12:12 AM, Meir Kriheli wrote: > >> On 01/03/2010 08:18 PM, Idan Gazit wrote: >>> Sorry, this thread has devolved into philosophical BS. >> > >> And the list goes on. Those things are important to me, and even if >> they cost me money I'm standing by them. Calling my way of life and >> choices "BS" or zealotry is not taken lightly. >> > > I didn't call your choices BS. Kol haKavod that you maintain a strict > diet of only Free Software. I think that unless you practice this > strict diet (no closed-source tool, no google, etc) then saying that > usage of Facebook is "more evil" than the next is hypocritical. >
Not really, as Google advances FOSS, pays each summer to programmers to work on FOSS (including Django and Python), provides a CDN for lots of FOSS libraries, release large amounts of code as FOSS (for many languages/frameworks), and even hosting some python web group's meetings. To make a leap from them to facebook and calling it hypocrisy isn't serious. But that's orthogonal to the discussion: my (and other hackers) ban on facebook is not FOSS related (I'm not the one who brought that up) but a _social_ one. I expect hackers, more than others, to understand that. > In the end, saying "service X is evil and I won't use it" is almost > always a rationalization. If you take that approach to its logical > end, then you should be a hermit in a cave in Nepal, growing the food > you eat. In reality, we choose compromises based on cost (time or > money), and those choices are subjective. > > I have no problem with anybody having strong opinions about which > compromises are better than others, so long as you realize that you > are arguing from a purely subjective basis. There is no "fact" > underneath most of these arguments, just feelings of which tradeoffs > are acceptable. Why make them ? There's already a hackers-il group which could revitalize, they have a mailing list, and host a wiki which can be used for organization: http://www.hackers.org.il/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page Cheers -- Meir -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyWeb-IL" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyweb-il?hl=en. _______________________________________________ Python-il mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/python-il
