Re: A disturbing trend
Re: A disturbing trend
- Subject: Re: A disturbing trend
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:09:49 -0400
On 09/11/2002 12:12, "Wallace, William" <email@hidden>
wrote:
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Lately, I have noticed a growing trend towards courtesy and
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friendliness on this list. I find it unsettling. The purpose of a list such
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as this is the proliferation of knowledge--to teach. But, how is anyone to
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learn from their mistakes if they are not publicly humiliated over them? By
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coddling the ignorant we do them a disservice. Throw the baby into the deep
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end and see how quickly he learns to swim. I say, we should go back to the
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days when those with the knowledge lorded their power over others and the
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newbies ever-cowered in fear of another relentless flaming.
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If this tendency towards goodwill and camaraderie continues, I might
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have to start hanging out in the Microsoft forum on Slashdot.
BWAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA....
Oh dear lord I needed that, today is just sucking.
john
--
The GPL is not something we really considered to be a license so much as a
political manifesto, and speaking purely for myself, I prefer to keep my
license agreements and my politics separate. I feel that code which isn't
being used in a situation where it COULD be used is code which isn't
achieving its full potential and the GPL scares a lot of potential users
away, which is simply counter-productive in my opinion. I don't care whether
or not the users give their changes back to me, that's just an added bonus
if it happens and nothing I'd want to try and enforce at the point of a gun.
--Jordan Hubbard
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