On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 01:51:06PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > It's rather hard to determine the sign when you don't have any values > to do arithmetic on! > > Is "can't distribute modified binaries" a -10?; -1,000?; or -??? > > How exactly would this standard help us. It seems we'd just be arguing > over the value of each clause as a proxy; i.e., it'd just add overhead > to our determinations. That's the point. The enterprise here is to cheapen freedom by commoditizing, and reducing the deliberation process of Debian's license vetting process to floor trading at the local stock exchange. To a capitalist, everything looks like a chattel. -- G. Branden Robinson | A celibate clergy is an especially Debian GNU/Linux | good idea, because it tends to branden@debian.org | suppress any hereditary propensity http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | toward fanaticism. -- Carl Sagan
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