Preaching to the choir [LWN.net]

Preaching to the choir

Posted Dec 16, 2006 23:10 UTC (Sat) by njs (subscriber, #40338)
In reply to: Preaching to the choir by mdekkers
Parent article: "BadVista.org": FSF launches campaign against Microsoft Vista

> we are discussing something as exciting as "Software Licensing" - yawn

I know -- almost as exciting as Constitutional Law or something. I see people get worked up about issues like that, and my idiot-filter kicks in -- it's immediately clear that they can't have anything interesting to say.

>As always, when you have a very vocal radicalised minority, they only serve to polarise views and preclude any possibility of compromise. Extremeism, whatever shape it takes, is simply not a good thing.

Well said -- and the FSF is a particularly egregious example, they've been doing this since the dawn of free software. Just think where we could be by now, if we hadn't had this millstone always hanging around our neck.

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Preaching to the choir

Posted Dec 18, 2006 0:56 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

""I know -- almost as exciting as Constitutional Law or something. I see people get worked up about issues like that, and my idiot-filter kicks in -- it's immediately clear that they can't have anything interesting to say""

Ya constitutional law is pointless and boring and distracts from the real issues such as economics.

I mean 'freedom of speech', who needs it? After all most media folk are liberals and should be shut down.

'right to keep and bare arms', bah. It just makes it easier for poor people to kill convience store workers.

Your right. Rights and freedoms and trying to point out they are relevent and important in this is day and age is pointless and counter productive to the bottom line. Those dirty hippies just need to stfu so real mean can get their work done and promote open source software properly.

Preaching to the choir

Posted Dec 18, 2006 14:51 UTC (Mon) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link]

'right to keep and bare arms'

Indeed. Every man should stand up for the right to get sunburned if they feel like it.

[A pleasing lack of smileys in this thread - one has to exercise one's comedy detector 'manually'.]