there's a difference [LWN.net]

there's a difference

Posted Mar 25, 2007 1:18 UTC (Sun) by dlang (subscriber, #313)
In reply to: there's a difference by JoeBuck
Parent article: Linux and flash

so go to the project that you think picked the 'wrong' license and explain to them that their carefully considered choice is wrong and they need to change it.

I'll bet that you won't get very far with this argument (although you may cause enough anger and distraction to reduce the effectivness of the peope actually doing the work there, causing the project with your favored license to 'win' becouse it's not suffereing from people like you)

takeing this a step farther, you are effectively saying that there should only be one license, and that everyone had better pick that license, even if they disagree with it.

do you start to see why this is a bad attitude yet?

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there's a difference

Posted Mar 25, 2007 14:42 UTC (Sun) by dion (subscriber, #2764) [Link]

No.

I don't think people should be forced to do anything, ever.

I don't think that sabotaging a competing project does anyone any good either.

I do think that it's better when everybody can agree to pull in the same direction, that's all.

there's a difference

Posted Mar 29, 2007 18:13 UTC (Thu) by TRauMa (guest, #16483) [Link]

<diabolical>If it's the right direction, that is...</diabolical>