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Politics is consensus

Posted Jul 10, 2012 6:18 UTC (Tue) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)
In reply to: Politics is consensus by man_ls
Parent article: Linksvayer: 5 years of GPLv3

Just repeating over and over that "Apple agreed with Stallman's beliefs" doesn't make it true. Did you read Stallman's obituary for Steve Jobs?

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Posted Jul 11, 2012 13:06 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

It looks like you've misquoted "...agreed to the extent that..." into just "agreed" when the whole point of man_ls was about the "extent".

I am afraid this is damaging the credibility of everything else you wrote (which looked interesting)

> Did you read Stallman's obituary for Steve Jobs?

This is getting worse... "X agrees with Y" does not imply "Y agrees with X".

Politics is consensus

Posted Jul 11, 2012 17:41 UTC (Wed) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link]

I would characterize Apple as an occasional supporter of Open Source and an opponent of Free Software.

I feel that the way that man_ls phrased things was confusing (but of course, you may disagree.)