As your views on open-source have become more and more extreme over
time, you have become less and less relevant to a overall practical
open-source community
I've never agreed with open source at all; my community is the free
software community. In 1998 part of the community started to speak of
"open source" instead of "free software"--the part that doesn't
consider freedom for users to be an ethical mandate.
The free software movement continues to grow and win support around
the world, focusing on areas other than the one you might call
"practical".
You have also made, to be
polite, inaccurate statements about OpenBSD which have been corrected
in great detail.
I expressed myself in a way that could be misunderstood, that is true.
Why try to stretch it to something worse? Do you start from a desire
to put me in the wrong?
But, what I find most disturbing about your behaviour is that it you
try to shove your views down other peoples throat with great vigour.
I've said repeatedly that I don't insist that anyone here follow my
views. I'm only explaining what they are (since others have
misrepresented them).
You have admitted as much on this list with regards to failed attempts
with Ubuntu and Debain and you have now failed here.
Actually what I said is that I tried to persuade Ubunu and Debian.
You need to recognize the difference between what I said and what you
think.
You should also investigate the facts before making false statements.
When I spoke with them I was polite and always recognized that they
would make their own decisions. They would never have listened to me
if I did not start by respecting them.
I failed to persuade them, but I didn't fail here, because I never
intended to try. I know that OpenBSD would not change anything for
me. I just want to correct the incorrect statements about my views.
Please go away, take your cronies with you and live in your own
little pocket universe so the rest of us can live in peace.
Please stop posting inaccurate statements of my actions and views, and
I will stop correcting them.
