Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 18, 2003 02:07 AM
"Anonymous Reader" wrote: The second, and more disturbing part, is that you [RMS] are apparently unwilling to allow opposing viewpoint. Sorry, dude, that bespeaks of a mind as closed as your opponents'. -----
In the last sentence of the second-to-last paragraph, Stallman asks only that opponents of FLOSS be represented as such, not that opponents be excluded from the discussion:
"If an opponent of our community is invited to speak, it should be in the form of an explicit debate which labels the adversary as such."
This seems a perfectly natural request, more "truth in advertising" than "closed-mindedness".
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Re:I see two disturbing things here ...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 18, 2003 02:07 AM-----
In the last sentence of the second-to-last paragraph, Stallman asks only that opponents of FLOSS be represented as such, not that opponents be excluded from the discussion:
"If an opponent of our community is invited to speak, it should be in the form of an explicit debate which labels the adversary as such."
This seems a perfectly natural request, more "truth in advertising" than "closed-mindedness".
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