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I fail to see how that is in any way the heart of the matter. The articles mentions someone being mad completely in passing, in a quoted tweet. If anyone in thi

I fail to see how that is in any way the heart of the matter. The articles mentions someone being mad completely in passing, in a quoted tweet. If anyone in this HN thread is mad, they're a tiny minority because I haven't seen any. Instead it seems more like the heart of your comment is that you view everything in terms of an ideological battle between the Free Software movement and everyone else. So when you came upon an article and HN thread calmly discussing a maintainer's decision to change their project's license for understandable reasons but in a somewhat underhanded way, you immediately sorted everyone into heroes and villains and self-righteously took a stand.

CathedralBorrow 7y ago
> "you immediately sorted everyone into heroes and villains and self-righteously took a stand" And when you proclaim that this person "views everything in terms of an ideological battle between the Free Software movement and everyone else", would you say that's a more nuanced and balanced take on the matter?
- laughinghan 7y ago
  Would I say what is a more balanced take on what matter? The two quotes you pulled appear to be takes on different matters.
  - CathedralBorrow 7y ago
    They might seem to be, so let me explain: To me it looked like you were doing exactly what you accused the other poster of -- immediately sorting them into the 'villain' bin and taking a self-righteous stand against them.
    - laughinghan 7y ago
      Interesting. To me, calling people "calm" doesn't sound particularly heroic, nor does calling someone "self-righteous" sound particularly villainous when I don't suggest they did any harm. Being harmlessly self-righteous may be embarrassing, perhaps, but hardly villainous. By contrast, "free riders", "huge amount of unpaid work [for] wealthy software workers", "No world has ever produced a violin small enough to play an elegy for those “victims.”"—I don't think I addressed my parent in remotely approaching that much disdain.

CathedralBorrow 7y ago

> "you immediately sorted everyone into heroes and villains and self-righteously took a stand" And when you proclaim that this person "views everything in terms of an ideological battle between the Free Software movement and everyone else", would you say that's a more nuanced and balanced take on the matter?

laughinghan 7y ago
Would I say what is a more balanced take on what matter? The two quotes you pulled appear to be takes on different matters.
- CathedralBorrow 7y ago
  They might seem to be, so let me explain: To me it looked like you were doing exactly what you accused the other poster of -- immediately sorting them into the 'villain' bin and taking a self-righteous stand against them.
  - laughinghan 7y ago
    Interesting. To me, calling people "calm" doesn't sound particularly heroic, nor does calling someone "self-righteous" sound particularly villainous when I don't suggest they did any harm. Being harmlessly self-righteous may be embarrassing, perhaps, but hardly villainous. By contrast, "free riders", "huge amount of unpaid work [for] wealthy software workers", "No world has ever produced a violin small enough to play an elegy for those “victims.”"—I don't think I addressed my parent in remotely approaching that much disdain.