Re: A practical example of a click-wrap license

2002-08-04 Thread Eric S Raymond
because I included a click-wrap requirement in my license? This scenario argues for permitting click-to-use but not click-to-redistribute. -- a href=http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/;Eric S. Raymond/a -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3

Re: A practical example of a click-wrap license

2002-08-04 Thread Eric S Raymond
://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/;Eric S. Raymond/a -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3

Re: Rebranding OSI.

2000-08-12 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Ross N. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How about an ant? No good. AbiWord got there first :-). -- a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr"Eric S. Raymond/a The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets -- Will Rogers

Proposed license from ATT

2000-04-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Please review this license from ATT. http://www.research.att.com/sw/license/ast-open.html -- a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr"Eric S. Raymond/a The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people. -- Justice

Re: Oversimplifications in HtN -- Philosophy and biology

1999-09-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
unable to find that because I didn't say it ;-). Which rather puts paid to the rest of your argument. -- a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr"Eric S. Raymond/a ...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without

Re: Oversimplifications in HtN -- Philosophy and biology

1999-09-22 Thread Eric S. Raymond
'm denying... -- a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr"Eric S. Raymond/a [The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral [force]; and men lose at once the power of p

Re: Oversimplifications in HtN -- Philosophy and biology

1999-09-20 Thread Eric S. Raymond
d them a lot more. That could be the epigraph for HtN. -- a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr"Eric S. Raymond/a Love your country, but never trust its government. -- Robert A. Heinlein.

Who gets stuck with advocacy?

1999-09-18 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ou tell me... -- a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr"Eric S. Raymond/a "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action, according to our will, within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others." -- Thomas Jefferson

Re: Essay RFC delayed.

1999-08-30 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Signal 11 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe his actions speak louder than his words. They would, if he didn't insist on saying things that puzzle and alienate and frighten people so often. -- a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr"Eric S. Raymond/a "A system of licensing a

Re: Essay RFC delayed.

1999-08-30 Thread Eric S. Raymond
a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr"Eric S. Raymond/a

Oversimplifications in HtN

1999-08-30 Thread Eric S. Raymond
al models, the more I think human beings flatter themselves by overestimating the complexity and novelty of their own social behavior. Nor, by the way, do I consider that a cynical statement. The kingdom of life is a big and wonderful place. We separate ourselves from it too much. --

Re: Essay RFC delayed.

1999-08-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
;http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr"Eric S. Raymond/a The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are

Re: Essay RFC delayed.

1999-08-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
in a ghetto and watching from the sidelines while Microsoft locked down the Internet. It was time to grow up and get real. -- a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr"Eric S. Raymond/a The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being as his father, i

Re: Essay RFC delayed.

1999-08-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
t;free software". -- a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr"Eric S. Raymond/a No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it. -- 16 Am. Jur. Sec. 177 late 2d, Sec 256

Re: Essay RFC delayed.

1999-08-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ake my job, please. -- a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr"Eric S. Raymond/a The abortion rights and gun control debates are twin aspects of a deeper question --- does an individual ever have the right to make decisions that are literally life-or-death? And if not the individual, who does?

Re: Essay RFC delayed.

1999-08-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Signal 11 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, about 25% of people are NT on the myers-briggs, if I recall correctly. Would that it were so. All the figures I've seen are 3-5%. -- a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr"Eric S. Raymond/a A human being should be able to change a di

Re: Essay RFC delayed.

1999-08-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
type, too. -- a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr"Eric S. Raymond/a The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. -- R. Buckminster Fuller

Re: Essay RFC delayed.

1999-08-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
hominem, and (b) easily refuted by anybody who actually who has actually read what I wrote, then and since. -- a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr"Eric S. Raymond/a Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then,

Re: Essay RFC delayed.

1999-08-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
"open source" happen. These things are never simple. -- a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr"Eric S. Raymond/a Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln

Re: Essay RFC delayed.

1999-08-20 Thread Eric S. Raymond
king time. *I* did. And I'm glad I did. And I'll stay glad I did no matter how many jerks sneer at me for it. The price is high, but the prize is worth it. *Despite* you. -- a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr"Eric S. Raymond/a All governments are more or less comb

Re: Essay RFC delayed.

1999-08-20 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ginal idea in their lives. Dammit, all that shit should have been RMS's job. I shouldn't have had to do it at all. So when anybody sounds like they're accusing me of selling out, I do tend to get a little testy. Cope with it. -- a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr"Eric