Re: OT: Apple stealing "Lily"

[David Kastrup]

Robert Schmaus <address@hidden> writes:

>> Please cool down and stop overreacting.
>
>
> Well your statement, which - very possibly without any bad intention - 
> turned around the historical facts, so admirably matched that notion
> that occasionally pops up also on this list ... namely that notion
> that everything proprietary is an attack on one's freedom. And that
> *is* paranoid.

Uh, no.  That is the _definition_ of "proprietary": being not at liberty
for the taking.  That does not preclude putting the respective
consequences into proper relation to one's own personal standards and
aims.

-- 
David Kastrup