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you've written a great comment i agree with, but you completely did not understand my comment. keep fighting the good fight, you have no fight with me. isn't i
by fsckboy 4y ago
you've written a great comment i agree with, but you completely did not understand my comment. keep fighting the good fight, you have no fight with me.
isn't it interest that people say "you're just arguing over semantics" when they actually mean "you're just arguing over syntax"?
- TeMPOraL 4y agoI'm saying that "free as in libre means free as in freedom like the word liberation, not anything to do with paying" is true in the same way a random piece of C++ code has nothing to do with CPUs, screens and keyboards. The code itself doesn't talk about hardware explicitly, but it's also not a poem - it's been made to be run on some hardware, and do things that are entirely about doing stuff to hardware. Same with Free Software - it talks about freedoms, but those freedoms are being exercised in the real, money-driven world, and they affect that world in specific ways. > isn't it interest that people say "you're just arguing over semantics" when they actually mean "you're just arguing over syntax"? I think I didn't make this mistake here. Or did I? Either way, it's just another unfortunate case of language drift, very similar to "literally" vs. "figuratively".