Homer wrote:
Verily I say unto thee, that Matt spake thusly:
Homer wrote:
I'm not sure if your single-word response is supposed to be either
a rebuke or a call for comment
[...]
Oh, it just reminded me of the time you wrote that you would give up
computing instead of running a cross-compiler on Windows to start
building a FOSS OS.
I see you've added "outright lying" to your repertoire of false logic.
Here's what I actually wrote:
"If Windows was the only OS in existence, and Microsoft was the only
software vendor, then I would actually stop using computers completely,
just for that reason."
/You/ were the one who injected this nonsense about cross-compilers.
So you said you wouldn't use computers if you didn't have a FOSS
OS---wouldn't even use one to begin to build the first FOSS OS. Have
you noticed that if everybody except MS thought that way, we wouldn't
have any FOSS now? But your quote above goes even worse and implies
that you wouldn't build the first FOSS even if you could do it without
using the bad guys' OS. I don't quite remember your reasoning on that
point.
My response to your suggestion was that this is not just about the
principle of using proprietary software to build Free Software, but that
in this instance the required proprietary software was provided by a
company which operates like gangsters, and I was categorically not
prepared to support those gangsters by helping to fund their criminal
activities.
Your response to this was:
"It would be crazy to swear off computers simply because using them
would require you to pay some money to bad people."
At which point the conversation is clearly over, because there is
obviously no way to bridge the divide between my principles and your
utter lack of them.
Really, Homer, I would be very surprised if you are over the age of 35.
I'm guessing late 20's. I would be very surprised if you know much
about history and the hell that people had to go through in order to
build whatever good things we have now. The way we are suffering
during this little breaking of the software monopoly is really nothing
compared to the Thirty Years War or the English Civil War. You can be
thankful that your ancestors didn't have principles as simple as yours,
assuming you are happy to have been born. You have basically admitted
to the self-destructiveness of your precious principles---and you know
very little about mine.
If you feel that you need to write a four-kilobyte rebuttal, go ahead,
but I wish you would think about whether things that are or aren't in
your head are holding you back in making things better for people by FOSS.
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