From: Alexandru Popescu <the_mindstorm@...>
Date: 2005-04-17T03:52:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Practical considerations for licensing software written with dynamic/non-compiled languages/platforms

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[quote Nikolai Weibull::on 4/15/2005 11:39 PM]
> Zach Dennis, April 16:
> 
>> Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> 
>> > I was not accusing you of being a racist, but it's been really
>> > tiresome lately, where Americans have gotten it into their head that
>> > the US is somehow the best place on Earth and that only they can
>> > save the rest of the world. 
> 
>> Hasty generalization...please don't tie all of us americans into that 
>> claim. Add "where some Americans have gotten..." to that sentence, 
>> otherwise you sound just as racist as what you claimed that Matt's 
>> statement was starting to sound.
> 
> Since when can't I use the word "Americans" to mean a subset of all
> Americans?  Is there some new law in effect that forbids me to do so?
> If I wanted additional effect, I would have written "all Americans" as
> it says a lot more than plain "Americans", right?  Have you perhaps not
> realized that I am an American as well?  I thought it was made pretty
> clear, both by what I wrote, how I wrote it, and from what my signature
> reads.
> 
>> Although i dont' think you mean it that way....and I didn't get the
>> impression that he didn't mean it the way you took it either.
> 
> The problem of double negatives here.
> 
> I'm sure he didn't mean what he said.  But he did say it, and that's the
> problem.  It's a problem of not realizing just what you're actually
> saying.  I don't hold Matt to his words, I just hope that I made him
> aware of the fact that the way he expressed himself could be considered
> offensive to a lot of people.
> 
> Sometimes I wake up at night distressed from realizing that I'm not
> living in the states.  That's how much I miss the America of my dreams;
> an America that doesn't exist anywhere but in my head, being nothing but
> a romanticized version of the real thing.  I'll never let anyone take
> that America from me, though,
>         nikolai
> 
Mr Nikolai,

I would probably end up by being criticized for my english - which is by no means my native
language, but I would like to emphasize one thing:
you (and i mean you americans) are too obsessed with -ism words (racism, sexism, whatsoever-ism)
claiming that this is protecting the freedom (freedom of speech included). In my romanian opinion,
talking good or bad about some guys leaving in usa as americans is by no means an -ism situation. It
is just an opinion. a fact. That's all.

cheers,
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:alex |.::the_mindstorm::.|
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