Kier <vallon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:13:35 +0100, Mark Kent wrote:
>
>> Kier <vallon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:07:36 +0100, Mark Kent wrote:
>>>
>>>> Kier <vallon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:42:10 +0100, Mark Kent wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>>> ____/ waterskidoo on Monday 06 August 2007 23:17 : \____
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 2007-08-06, Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Well, Peter K would have us all on binary drivers, locked to hardware
>>>>>>>>> combinations determined by grey-suited people in smart offices.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I don't think Peter said that at all.
>>>>>>>> Unless I am mistaken,he said that in the scheme of things
>>>>>>>> having a binary only driver is better than having no driver at all.
>>>>>>>> I agree with him.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's hard to just say "no" when they give binary drivers and then demand that
>>>>>>> the drivers get open-sourced. Sadly, as Linux grows beyond its origins (which
>>>>>>> it does), a smaller proportion of the users cares about the openness of
>>>>>>> drivers.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hopefully, Linux won't evolve to become just another Mac OS X.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The GPLv3 is intended to stop the kind of creeping proprietisation which
>>>>>> Peter K and Waterskidoo are so keen on.
>>>>>
>>>>> Where have either of them said anything remotely like that?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Your track record for "misreading" posts and intentions is phenomenal.
>>>
>>> You are a liar, Mark. It is not, and you know it. Stop talking crap.
>>>
>>>> If I want an interpretation of what someone means or intends, I will not
>>>> be asking you.
>>>
>>> Neither of them have said anything remotely like what you imply, and in
>>> fact Peter K has vehemently denied it.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> How long were you defending "snit" for? Are you still?
>>>
>>> No. And I only ever did at the very beginning, *years* ago. Yet you,
>>> and fools like you, keep dragging rubbish like that up to smear me, and
>>> then whine that *you're* being abused. I call that hypocrisy.
>>>
>>
>> Err, my recollection is that this is not the case. I bring it up only
>> because you've started having a go at me, exactly as you did in the snit
>> case.
>
> It's been brought up a number of times, and referred to more than once,
> by various posters here. I don't care to have it dragged out *again* when
> it has *no* relevence to anything being discussed here. Kindly don't
> mention it again.
>
If you can avoid behaving in the same way, then I will not bring it up
again.
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