GPL 3: An Open-Source Earthquake? (CRN) [LWN.net]

GPL 3: An Open-Source Earthquake? (CRN)

Posted Feb 1, 2007 16:01 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190)
In reply to: GPL 3: An Open-Source Earthquake? (CRN) by sbergman27
Parent article: GPL 3: An Open-Source Earthquake? (CRN)

So when PJ was on-side about SCO she was a saint; now she's chosen the "wrong" side in the GPL debate, she's at best a batty old woman, at worst an career-wrecking censorious harridan.

Riiiight. I'm now going to make the same mode of argument against you that you made against her: You're a misogynistic horse's arse.

Not very useful, is it?

"Maureen O'Gara, whose career Pamela destroyed"

As I recall, Ms O'Gara destroyed her own career by getting so cross with PJ that she published her contact details and invited her readers to harrass her in person.

Have you *seriously* just equivocated 'deleting a comment with a clear explanation of why' with 'trying to summon a lynch mob'?

"She scans the post for anything that anyone could possibly consider offensive, and removes it if she thinks anyone might possibly agree."

Right, so enforcing a stated comments policy without exception or favour is "censorship"?

Of course it isn't. Her site; her rules; she doesn't owe anyone a platform, not even Linus (or RMS); and someone who prides themselves on their objectivity is hardly likely to endanger that by exempting famous names from a stated comments policy.

Come back with some examples of where she has explicitly refused to enforce the same comments policy, and you might have a point. Until then... see above, with particular reference to equine hindquarters.

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