Sorry about that. On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 1:45 PM Kevin P. Fleming <kevin+...@km6g.us> wrote:
Please try to stay on topic. Patrick started this thread with a very > straightforward request for license stewards to provide information > about their licenses, and now the thread is rehashing preferences for > one license over another, OSL vs. GPL, etc, and hypothesizing what a > future OSL could be. None of that is inappropriate for this list, but > it's off topic for this thread, and that makes it harder for people > who want to participate in specific discussions to do so. Most threaded mail readers thread on the Subject: line rather than the In-Reply-To: header, so changing the subject will be sufficient. Yes, the 'delete' key is right there, and it's not hard to press it, > but when someone posts a message which is both on-topic and off-topic > (as happens often), readers have no choice but to read through it all > to find the parts that are relevant. > As long as people write messages on more than one topic, responses will be on more than one topic. Nobody's going to write several replies on *any* system to the same message. Would it be better if people always raised an issue in one post, made a proposal to resolve it in another, and posted their arguments in a third? It would. But they won't, not without a *lot* more support (see < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issue-based_information_system> for what that would look like). John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org In my last lifetime, I believed in reincarnation; in this lifetime, I don't. --Thiagi
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