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| DATE | 2006-05-23 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Balug-talk] [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Its a sorry day for The Linux Journal
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> What I said -- to repeat myself, which I do not intend to do again --
> was that it was damned peculiar that you chose a person who has no
> discernible connection with OSI as exemplifying the views of "open
> source persons", when a couple of dozen well-known persons of
> longstanding were available who _are_ associated formally with OSI.
>
> Add that to the fact that the cited quotation didn't even support your
> assertion anyway, and one is lead to suspect that you were straining
> wildly because you had no real ability to support your point at all.
>
Be that what it may, Larry Augustine "Free Shit" speach is certainly not
a Free Software sentiment. Whether it is an "Open Source" sentiment or not
I will leave to those familiar with such groups of people since I don't know
many of them and those I've met, like Bruce Perens, have made equally similar
sentiments very clear.
Ruben
>
> That is exactly what I said earlier today. It is very vexing to have to
> say it twice, for no better reason than your being either willfully dense
> or straining to find something to argue with, or both.
>
> If you honestly are having such extreme difficulty correctly
> understanding my posts that you're driven to positing blatantly silly
> interpretations of them, I suggest you quit.
>
>
> > This is getting back to the footsie you mentioned originally, isn't it?
>
> You went there. That really wasn't very smart. Pray do not try it
> again.
>
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