Is a person really free if they aren't free to enslave others? [CSOTD]!

Andrew C. Greenberg werdna at mucow.com
Mon Nov 12 18:29:59 UTC 2001


On Tuesday, November 13, 2001, at 05:15  PM, goran.hultgren at bluefish.se 
wrote:

> "Andrew C. Greenberg" <werdna at mucow.com> wrote:
>> On Thursday, November 8, 2001, at 10:04  AM, goran.hultgren at bluefish.se
>> wrote:
>>
>>> It sounds as if you are saying that FSF say that GPL is the only free
>>> software license. If that is indeed what you are saying then you are
>>> just plain wrong.
>>
>> Straw man.  Not what I am saying.
>
> 1. What do you mean with "Straw man"? I am not familiar with the
> expression.

A straw man is a term for a response to a statement or argument by 
recharacterizing it as something else.  However one might criticize the 
straw man, it does not refer or relate to the actual statement or 
argument.

> 2. What were you saying then? (Honestly wondering) Passage included
> again below:
>
>> It is RMS and the GPL true believers here who have adopted and are
>> defending to the end of the earth the proposition that their software,
>> that their notion of

What I wrote.





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