Nice ad hominem attack [LWN.net]

Nice ad hominem attack

Posted Oct 25, 2004 9:34 UTC (Mon) by petegn (guest, #847)
In reply to: Nice ad hominem attack by job
Parent article: How to be a Free Software zealot (NewsForge)

Yeah yeah yeah ..

Tell you what if everyone that has crawled out of the wood work on the
strenght of this one article (as crap as it is) paid the same amount of attention to the job of getting Linux where it DESERVES TO BE then by now we would not be facing a continual bararge of crap from M$ Corp they would be silenced permanently and so would other bit players like sco sun .

It is just amazing how many people appear when some worm of a jurno has got his nutts in his hands .

Mozilla BTW is great and the fact that people MIGHT have to ask to include it in a distro places no problems oj it at all AFAICS

Pete .

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Nice ad hominem attack

Posted Oct 25, 2004 10:44 UTC (Mon) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link]

Indeed. So where are you in all this? Your opinion might carry some more
weight if you were actually a packager for a major distro having to deal
with all this stuff.

Nice ad hominem attack

Posted Oct 25, 2004 12:14 UTC (Mon) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]

Having heard a lot about the FSF's philosophy, the grandparent is right.

All Mozilla's trademark stuff does is shoot THEMSELVES in the foot if they play nasty.

It does NOT restrict the USER's freedom at all. Don't forget - the FSF doesn't give a damn about DISTRIBUTORS.

Cheers,
Wol

Nice ad hominem attack

Posted Nov 4, 2004 15:57 UTC (Thu) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link]

On the contrary. It is the user's freedoms that are being restricted. The
distributions can all ask and get special exceptions. Each and every user
that wants to extend Mozilla in some way can't possibly ask the Mozilla
organisation for special permission. That is the case today. Unless you
want to redo the graphics and change the name, of couse, but that might
be a bit more work than you originally had expected. It's your choice.