From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2003-07-12T16:21:29+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Humans and dictionaries

"Massimiliano Mirra - bard" <mmirra@libero.REMOVETHIS.it> wrote in message
news:8765m9klfk.fsf@prism.localnet...
> "Sean O'Dell" <sean@REMOVEME.celsoft.com> writes:
>
> >> If you're wondering what the hell I mean, walk to a friend of yours
> >> tomorrow which looks particularly happy and tell him ``You're gay''.
>
> > You know, I actually recognized that the emotional charge behind the
word
> > "viral" might be why its application to the GPL was being so hard-fought
> > against, but thought that perhaps the truth behind such a term might
shine
> > through and we could use it to describe what we know about the GPL.  I'm
> > thinking now that maybe we ought to have another word to describe it;
one
> > less predictably antagonistic.
> >
> > How about we start calling it "socialist licensing" instead?
>
> Oh, feel free of course to call licenses (and friends) in whatever
> ways seem most appropriate to you and can generate comparably
> interesting and constructive discussions.  I'm not really entitled to
> give an opinion as in the meantime I'll probably be elsewhere coding.

Take time out to have a rousing discussion once in awhile.  Life has a lot
more to offer than just coding.

    Sean O'Dell