On Tuesday September 30 2008 18:56:23 Josh Paetzel wrote: > p.daniels wrote: > > On Tuesday September 30 2008 15:14:49 Josh Paetzel wrote: > > *snip* > > > >> If the vegetarian can't recommend the restaurant then, does he not then > >> stand in the position of wanting to limit other people's choices? > > > > No, it puts him in the position of not wanting to recommend it. Are you > > serious? > > But his position isn't "not wanting to recommend it" His position is > "This is wrong and you shouldn't eat it because it is bad for all of us > if you do" And he's right. That still doesn't equate to compulsion. No one is telling you what you can or cannot do. > > >> Sure, the nvidia binary drivers are in the FreeBSD ports tree. No one > >> is forcing you to use them. You're more than free to use the Xorg open > >> source nv driver. Where I start to lose tolerance in when you tell me I > >> can't use the nvidia binary drivers either. Or have to jump through > >> hoops to use them. Now you're infringing on my right to choose. > > > > How does "I cannot recommend" become "you tell[ing] me I can't use the > > nvidia binary drivers"? No one's telling you what to do here, he's > > telling you what _he_ would do. This is America, he has that right. > > > > -p. > > No, his message is very clear. Proprietary closed source software is > wrong, and bad for all computer users. Thankfully I live in America and > have the right to ignore him. See my above rebuttal. -p. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080930/97bd5fb7/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080930/97bd5fb7/attachment.pgp