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Three comments that I regard as incorrect: Either the GPL is sufficient to keep participants harmonious or it isn't. This essay embodies everything that keeps
by jdub 16y ago
Three comments that I regard as incorrect:
Either the GPL is sufficient to keep participants harmonious or it isn't.
This essay embodies everything that keeps the free software movement from greatness.
Alas, the movement is perpetually suspicious of those who want it to flourish.
- halostatue 16y agoThat they are or are not correct is your opinion, not matters of fact. The statements above are also the OPs matters of opinion.
- pohl 16y agoI had a hunch you were conflating the concepts of fact and opinion. At least I now know what you meant, though.
- jdub 16y agoOK, I won't take the shortcut then: Your opinions are not supported by the facts. :-)
- pohl 16y agoI'm glad you're taking this in good humor. As it happens, I'm ok with the possibility that the essay does not completely capture everything that keeps the movement from greatness, and that the community may only be paranoid sporadically, but I'm keenly interested in what sort of facts could support the notion that "A and not A" might be true for some value of A.
- jdub 16y ago:-) Because there's a lot of grey area between those binary states, and plenty of examples of the GPL being used for good and/or evil to various degrees. Either the GPL is sufficient to keep participants harmonious or it isn't. You could say I'm arguing that the GPL isn't enough to keep participants harmonious, and therefore accepting the binary nature of your claim... but in the context of your post, I think you're conflating the GPL with all kinds of other social interactions in FLOSS projects, and carving its impact into binary positions can't give you an answer based on fact and experience. (phew)