future of quail

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Tue Feb 15 08:21:41 EST 2011


"Eric S. Johansson" <esj at harvee.org> writes:

> On 2/15/2011 6:52 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Julian Bradfield<jcb+xeb at jcbradfield.org>  writes:
>>
>>> On 2011-02-15, David Kastrup<dak at gnu.org>  wrote:
>>>> Julian Bradfield<jcb+xeb at jcbradfield.org>  writes:
>>>>
>
> My view on these license wars just to be somewhat more pragmatic. One
> of the things that contributed to my disability was participating in
> license wars and arguing about the benefits of one form of licensing
> versus another. High emotion, angry typing all contributed to damaging
> my hands.

Refraining from unwarranted name-calling and wild analogies should help.
If things don't look bad enough without applying lots of hyperbole, then
one should question one's urge to turn on the hyperbole tap.

Something like <URL:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/eula/home.mspx>
does not require hyperbole for looking bad.

-- 
David Kastrup



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