Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> writes: > On 09/20/2014 04:20 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: >> >> Please stop. > > I agree. It's all free, so where's the beef? The Devs are free to do > as the please. If anyone wants to do as they please, they are also > free to do so. This ain't Windows. Ric
Of course they are free to do whatever they want. Did anyone say otherwise? Now imagine that someone who would dare to say that they, for good reasons, think that it's a bad thing that magicians working hard to create very important supplies sit on top of high ivory towers with their heads in the clouds and full of disregard for the supplies' consumers for which they say that they are creating the supplies in the first place --- for which to say they even created a social contract saying just that, visible for everyone, mind you --- would be looked down upon by the very magicians and be told that their criticism better stop because some of it might be suited to deconstruct the magicians' ivory towers and hence could spoil the magicians' willingness to create further supplies. Then, please ponder this imagination for a while, and you might find that giving such an answer a lot has often times lead to overthrowing the magicians, to their ivory towers being taken down and to a vacuum which to fill other magicians --- or, perhaps worse, only /presumingly/ other magicians --- have sprung up from somewhere. Pondering, you might discover that effectively, more often than not, giving an answer as described above a lot has brought upon everyone more misery, havoc and destruction than appreciating the daring someone ever could ever have because appreciating would have allowed to either create a better situation or to convincingly show that the daring someone is mistaken. After all this let me ask you: Isn't it somewhere along the (self-drawn) lines of "the free software community" to appreciate daring someones? And if it isn't, shouldn't it be? -- Knowledge is volatile and fluid. Software is power. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87zjdr6uu0....@yun.yagibdah.de
