[OSList] Mark, can you commit to not calling anyone a disparaging name again?

2022-01-22 Thread Lucas Cioffi via OSList
Hi Mark, I'm writing because I noticed in your last message you called someone on this list a "hater". I haven't been following all of this discussion, and I don't know if someone called you a name first. If they did, I would like to ask them this same question: > If you intend to stay on the

Re: [OSList] Who is BS-ing Whom?

2022-01-22 Thread Koos de Heer via OSList
There is one point you seem to miss, Mark. The fact that the author understands and explains a phenomenon, does not mean he supports it. The fact that the authorities are clumsy in their ways of coercion, does not mean that the behavior they are trying to promote is wrong. The author is not

Re: [OSList] Who is BS-ing Whom?

2022-01-22 Thread Marc C. Trudeau via OSList
I observe that this topic is incredibly triggering for all of us, everyone, me included. (It’s not news to this group that the structures and institutions that served us in the industrial age are not coping well with the complexities of today.) I’m drawn to ask myself, what’s the