On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 08:09:55PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I don't find your argument particularly persuasive; it seems to be very > strong on emotion without a lot of logic to back it up, or without any > real discussion of what you're trying to defend and why. That's because some of us have grown tired of reiterating the same points over and over, without any substantive -- logical -- rebuttal. If you want logical arguments, catch up on 2 month's worth of list archives: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200207/threads.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200208/threads.html Refusing to countenance the logical arguments that have been presented ad nauseum for the past couple of months and just griping about non-logical ones is a good way to get yourself ignored. If you want a logical argument, get yourself up to speed and engage us on that basis. If, on the other hand, all you want to do is to burst in, say "well, you guys are wrong and you're exploiting the great Don Knuth and what's wrong with you folks and oh well I can't be troubled to see what you have to say about this matter list archives? what are those you know it's just completely inconceivable to me that anyone's has anything substantive to say about this subject before I showed up and in any event I'm just convinced you're wrong and I think I'll babble on a little more about how misguided and exploitative you are and my aren't you guys a little tetchy when I do so has it ever occured to you to use logic?", then please go away. Because that's just what you sound like. If you want logic, establish your premises with the aid of 2 months' worth of context. If you just want to bitch, consider yourself heard. Now move along. -- G. Branden Robinson | I've made up my mind. Don't try to Debian GNU/Linux | confuse me with the facts. branden@debian.org | -- Indiana Senator Earl Landgrebe http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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