On 1/24/21 12:22 PM, Mat K. Witts wrote:
On 22/01/2021 00:29, McCoy Smith wrote:
A corporation is a group of natural persons.
Not on it's own,
Yes, on its own. It's a group. You intend to discriminate, we intend for
you to not discriminate. Stop. End of sentence. EOT. Ctrl-D. ^D. You're
done. Your ship has sunk, your bird has flown, your toast has popped,
your souffle has fallen. Your license is not compatible with the Open
Source Definition BY DESIGN. There's really no possible interpretation
whereby your discrimination becomes one we would allow.
We don't WANT to discriminate, even against "bad" people.
You DO want to discriminate.
There is no meeting of the minds.
The whole point behind Open Source is the same point behind Free
Software -- to transfer the power to discriminate between users to the
users themselves. It's the users who decide whether they want to use the
software or not. Open Source creates a free market in software. If you
don't want your software to be free for anyone to use, then you aren't
distributing Free Software as a concept, and aren't distributing Open
Source as a brand.
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