Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Gerry Quinn
Date : Sat Sep 17 2005 02:35 pm

In article <F4zWe.15557$R5.1065@news.indigo.ie>, 
david.golden@oceanfree.net says...
> Gerry Quinn wrote:
> 
> > The point is that 
> > nobody is forced to sell their rights to anyone.
> > 
> Yet again, you simply presuppose "their rights" are valid.

As with other property rights.

> > it is dishonest 
> > to represent that statement as being the opinion of the author, as you
> > have done.
> 
> I did no such thing, I merely attributed the quote to its presumed
> originator.  If it had been said by Bozo the Clown, the advice in the
> quote itself would be every bit as applicable to dealing with you and
> your  kind's mission to send humanity into a new Dark Age of
> technological feudalism.   Sid Meier (or perhaps an underling who may
> have actually wrote it, I've no idea if he personally wrote every line
> in the game) deserves credit for his succinct and poetic phrase.  Would
> you have me deny him that credit?  

That is garbage.  It is like saying, apropos of nothing:

<"I have never been attracted to girls older than thirteen" - Vladimir 
Nabokov> 

or

<"Human brains are the part I like to eat most" - Thomas Harris>

The words were put in the mouth of a character who claims elsewhere 
that bureaucracy is the highest activity available to man.  (And, as I 
pointed out, this character was talking about an entirely different 
subject, so your quotation was doubly a lie.)

You put it in the mouth of Sid Meier, in an attempt to generate a 
spurious endorsement for your thuggish communist policies from a 
respected author of computer games.

Clearly you have NO respect for authors - I imagine most here will have 
worked that out already from your poisonous sneering about 
'disclosure'.

- Gerry Quinn

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