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.
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.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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