RE: [Fsfe-uk] NCC Filetab for Linux

[Martyn Ranyard]

Hello Chris,

First, I am bored of this now, so apologies for any terseness, take this 
email along with the two I have already posted.

I was slightly unpolite, but no more so than someone promoting non-free 
software on a free-software list.

FileTab/Linux asks you to agree to a non-osi/fsf license before you 
download it.

You indicated the exact thing that I was (albeit slightly less politely) 
trying to convey - the email content is "against the aims of the FSF and 
associated groups".  This is an FSF-europe list.

You also are asking me to keep double standards.  I will not.  Full 
stop.  This program is not open source, and how can saying that I don't 
want closed source software "contribute to the negative image of open 
source software".  It contributes to /my/ negativity towards /closed-source 
software/.  If Mr Gough is upset with me, tough.  If he is aware of how 
this list operates, he will know that that is not an official response of 
any group.  If not, then he isn't looking hard enough.  I do not censor my 
opinions on a public list because they /might/ possibly be seen as coming 
from a particular group.  I think you underestimate Mr. Gough if you expect 
him to take my opinions as a full and balanced viewpoint of the entire 
opensource/free software movement.

At 01:07 PM 7/1/02 +0100, Chris Puttick wrote:
> Please engage politeness mode before sending email - granted FileTab/Linux 
> is not open source (as far as I can tell, although it is free as in beer), 
> and therefore against the aims of the FSF and associated groups. However 
> upsetting a man in the influential position of Mr Gough is not going to 
> help promote open source solutions and will contribute to the negative 
> image of open source software.
>
> Regards
>
> Chris Puttick

Martyn Ranyard
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