🚀 go-pugleaf

 > > > 1. Try to pass laws to make them do things your way.
 > > > 2. Let them do things their way, but don't give them any assistance.
 > > > 3. Tolerate opinions which differ to your own.  Give people the freedom
 > > >    to make their own decisions, and rely on persuasion to entice them or 
 > > >    educate them into doing things your way.
 > > >
 > > > The FSF approach is #1.
 > > 
 > > False.  The FSF approach is #2, and to some extent, #3
 > 
 > No, the FSF approach is #1, just like the hoarders' approach.  The hoarders
 > say "You can't un-hoard our software or we'll set our lawyers on you." 
 > The FSF say "You can't hoard our software or we'll set our lawyers on you."

How in the world can you equate this with "pass laws to make them
do things your way"??  I'm beginning to wonder if we're writing
in the same language.

 > If the FSF is really "letting hoarders do things their way", then one might
 > just as well argue that the hoarders are "letting the FSF do things their
 > way".  And I don't think you'd agree with that.

Oh yes I would!  Right up to the point where they start sueing
for software patent and interface copyright infringement.

 > When I say that the alternative is to let hoarders do things their way but
 > not give them any assistance, I mean you let them do what they like with
 > free software, but you don't yourself spend any time assisting them.  You
 > don't stop them doing anything they want to do themselves, you just don't
 > spend time helping them.  You continue to spend time helping other people,
 > and it's inevitable that some of that help will be of assistance to the
 > hoarders AS WELL.

Sorry, but letting them hoard free software is helping them.