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Re: Bug#281672: marked as done (autoconf: non-free documentation)



On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> don@donarmstrong.com wrote:
> 
> >From what I can tell, the overall consensus was that sarge should
> >release with GFDLed and similar works in place, and that we should
> >remove these works post-sarge.
>
> You are confusing the result of a votation with a consensus.  These
> are pretty different things.

[insert 139 message thread on the difference between consensus,
majority, and unanimity with side threads into the rms-fandom or
anti-fandom status of -legal and whether or not we should butter our
toast before or after if it becomes toast and if we butter it before
are we actually buttering toast or just buttering bread.]

I think we've been here before, done that, and have sold off all of
the t-shirts to help finance the non-existant black helicopters.


Don Armstrong

-- 
[A] theory is falsifiable [(and therefore scientific) only] if the
class of its potential falsifiers is not empty.
 -- Sir karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ �21

http://www.donarmstrong.com              http://rzlab.ucr.edu



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