OSD#5 needs a patch?

Chuck Swiger chuck at codefab.com
Thu Oct 9 21:09:17 UTC 2003


On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 04:26 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
[ ... ]
> I'm concerned that this discussion is starting to chase a chimaera:  
> That
> is, some BSD and ex-NeXT types started blitzing this mailing list with
> fervent (but mistaken) concerns about the OSI either being or becoming
> a lobby for the GNU General Public Licence.

It's easy to refer to people as being of "some type", and to dismiss 
their comments or arguments as not being worthy of consideration 
because of "who they are" rather than "what they say".

I don't find the experience of having someone claim that I'm "blitzing 
this mailing list" with "chimaerical" arguments because of the 
operating systems I've used to be any more pleasant than I would find 
someone disagreeing with me because of the color of my skin.  Prejudice 
isn't one of your prettier failings, Rick.

-- 
-Chuck

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