Stallman and GNU/Linux, was Re: [Sussex] BBC Video Downloads

Steve Dobson steve at dobson.org
Sun Feb 4 17:57:10 UTC 2007


Mark

On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:01:45PM -0000, Mark Harrison wrote:
> There are many, many, things on which I disagree with Steve :-) However, on
> this one, I have to side with him. The nature of language is that words come
> to mean what the majority of people think they mean, irrespective of what
> the technical people who REALLY understand them may wish.

Oh! My! God!  Mark agrees with me.  The world is about to end!!! :-)

> Ideological purity is the enemy of pragmatic progress.

And even worse I agree with Mark too.

Steve
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