🚀 go-pugleaf

jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer) writes:
> =o= The real problem with the word "free" is that there is
> an ideology shared by conservatives and Libertarians which
> holds "the freedom to maximize profit" above just about
> everything else.  (Many netfolk come from rather privileged
> backgrounds and never had to worry about the everything else;
> thus we see this ideology held and advocated by disproportionate
> numbers of netfolk.)	Even though it is quite possible to use
> GNU software to make a profit, you can't maximize those profits
> by withholding the source.

What a penetrating analysis.  And with such well-documented
assumption.  :-)

Now see what you can tell us about the definition of "ad hominem
argument."  Apparently you are quite familiar with the idea....

Jesse Perry   jesse@franklin.com   uunet!frnkmth!jesse