I want to add one quote that came to mind a little later... Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. -- Voltaire
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:37:29PM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:13:03AM +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2008 1:20 AM, chefren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > This man has no respect for programmers, clearly doesn't understand why > > > money > > > was invented and how a market can be a very reasonable way to let people > > > earn > > > money. > > > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Market > > > > "It is misleading to describe the users of free software, or the > > software users in general, as a "market". > > OMG market!! Evil word!! > > Oh wait everything is a market including charity, religion, open > software, proprietary software, hardware etc. GPL/FSF politics are > absurd. I have no other word for it. It is nothing but circle talk > meant to confuse simpletons in doing what isn't in their best interest. > You know, like voting republican when you make $18,000 a year. Use big > words and play on guilt to make them followers. Absurd I tell you!!
