[Glastonbury] free & open

[Martin WHEELER]

On 19 Sep 2003, Sean Miller wrote:

> Is your clock up the creak again? Or has your message just taken a long
> time to arrive?

"tech" is an unknown user ... hewnce the delay whilst the message was
held back for manual spam checks.


> Must work out how to get Ximian Evolution to format dates correctly....
> 2003-09-19 ? Means nothing to anybody !! :-)

WHEN we become fully European, and adopt sensible date/time stamps, you
won't dream of using anything else!


And ref. Steve's comments on the visceral reaction to 'free' and 'open'
-- if only we all spoke French, we'd instinctively grasp the difference
between 'gratuit' and 'libre', and have no problems whatsoever.

Much as I admire and have great respect for RMS, he's a complete and
total bozo when it comes to the creative use of language.  He really
shouldn't be allowed within a mile of naming procedures.  (GNU?  LiGNUx?
HURD?)  Only a drongo with no feel for the English language could come
up with expressions like: 'Free as in beer' vs. 'Free as in speech' --
thus muddying the waters totally.
Sad, really.

Mind you, he writes a real mean flame when he wants.
Re-spect, there.
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