[gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

[Duncan]

"Bob Young" <BYoung@××××××××××.com> posted
FAEEIJPAOFEMBBLKPMJEMEHBHKAA.BYoung@××××××××××.com, excerpted below, on 
Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:32:00 -0700:

[Duncan wrote...]
>> My tough standards are my own to
>> live by, if I can, nobody else's unless they want to adopt them as well.
>
> I'm not suggesting you should change your opinion or views in any way. I'm
> only suggesting that "slaveryware" and "freedomware" are not accurate
> terms. I'm suggesting that the more general "open source" "GPLed" "CSS"
> "OSS" "closed source" etc, are descriptive enough to make the point, and
> they do so  without being somewhat condescending and mildly insulting to
> others who may not share your strong views of open source.

See, that's where my meaning gets messed up.  I'm talking about
slaveryware not because that's what you see it as, and /certainly/ not
because that's what the average user would see it as, but because that's
what I see it as. It is a term describing an attitude/realization to which
I've evolved in my own journey thru life, and as such, pertains to that
peculiar viewpoint. You don't have to call it slaveryware as you've
obviously taken a different journey and are at a different point in your
life, so you don't see it as such, which is fine. Only know that I do see
it as such given the point in my life journey I've arrived at and seeing
it, will call it just as I see it, no politically correct word games, just
my straight unvarnished viewpoint.

That's what I mean about not forcing my views, while at the same time
being very honest, no politically correct toning down for niceness or
whatever, about my own viewpoint.  I'm not asking you to accept my
definition, I'm simply saying that's the way I see it and /only/ asking
you to accept that /I/ see it that way.  You can call it the greatest
invention since sliced bread if you want, it won't affect the journey I've
taken, nor my viewpoint, and as soon as I realize that's what you believe,
well, I'll accept that and interpret any references in your posts to "the
greatest thing  since sliced bread" in "Bob Young speak" as "slaveryware"
in "Duncan speak".  =8^)  All I'm asking is that /whatever/ you choose to
call it, you accept my viewpoint as my own just as I'd accept yours as
your own, and do the reverse translation. =8^)

For me, it's slaveryware, so that's what I call it.  It really is that
simple.

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