On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 05:19:40PM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
> * Raul Miller
>
> > 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software
[...]
> > It's clear to me that the release manager was drawing a distinction
> > between "software" and "copyrighted works distributable in digital form".
>
> This is what I don't follow. I've been trying very hard to understand
> how it was logically possible to interpret the old social contract like
> that, with no luck.
Easy.
> To be able to make the distinction, one would also have to forget about
> the mathematical fact that "100%" refer to the whole thing,
That's the whole problem: not all of us are mathematicians. In fact,
most of us aren't. Most of us are programmers or pretty close at that,
which has to do a lot with math, but it isn't the same thing.
People misinterpret some things sometimes. Shit happens. But you can't
blaim them for agreeing with their reading of a text instead of yours,
even if you think that their reading isn't logically possible. After
all, the human brain is no computer; sometimes it makes a decision which
isn't logically correct.
If you want pure logic, talk to Spock.
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