Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Scott Moore
Date : Thu Sep 22 2005 12:39 pm

Randy Howard wrote On 09/21/05 23:24,:

> Letting the opposition have 100% of the floor does not achieve 
> anything positive, apart from shorten thread length perhaps.

The creationists are getting a lot of traction by painting
the ridiculous attempt to return to religious values over
science as a "debate" between "equivalent ideas". So I postulate
that simply debating abolishment of paid software may be giving
a platform to those who advance that idea. Put it this way.
You would not go down and debate if the world is or is not
going to end tomorrow with a crazy person carrying a sign
down on main street. You would just rest happy in the knowledge
that nobody is paying attention to them.

I do suspect the software lunatics do appreciate the attention.
They seem to jump on any thread even remotely related to paid
or freeware, or openware, to hijack it to their agenda. It was
very sucessful here. This thread didn't start as a debate on
software communisim at all.

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