From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Meanness
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:59:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080726115923.GE1419@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1KMiH9-0005T9-Uw@fencepost.gnu.org>
Hi, Alfred!
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 07:49:27AM -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> Everybody here is adult enough to respect others' views on contentious
> topics. Let's do this.
> On cannot respect a view that concedes that doing something immoral and
> unethical is right; non-free software is always the wrong way to do
> things.
There's remarkably little consensus about which things are immoral and
unethical. It is entirely possible to respect a view with which one
strongly disagrees; such respect promotes fruitful discussion.
But my main point was that some posters had responded to things they
disagreed about by personal attack. I don't think that has a place here.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-26 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-26 8:10 Meanness Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-26 11:49 ` Meanness Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-07-26 11:59 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2008-07-26 12:04 ` Meanness Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-07-26 15:16 ` Meanness Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-26 15:27 ` Meanness Juanma Barranquero
2008-07-26 15:51 ` Meanness David Kastrup
2008-07-26 16:11 ` Meanness Juanma Barranquero
2008-07-26 16:30 ` Meanness David Kastrup
2008-07-26 16:40 ` Meanness Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-26 16:52 ` Meanness Juanma Barranquero
2008-07-26 16:59 ` Meanness Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-26 17:49 ` Meanness Thomas Lord
2008-07-26 17:21 ` Meanness David Kastrup
2008-07-26 17:36 ` Meanness Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-26 18:10 ` Meanness David Kastrup
2008-08-30 2:10 ` Meanness Daniel Colascione
2008-07-26 15:37 ` Meanness David Kastrup
2008-07-26 16:49 ` Meanness Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-26 16:00 ` Meanness Óscar Fuentes
2008-07-26 16:19 ` Meanness David Kastrup
2008-07-26 16:56 ` Meanness Óscar Fuentes
2008-07-27 14:49 ` Meanness Richard M Stallman
2008-07-26 16:16 ` Meanness Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-07-26 16:20 ` Meanness Chong Yidong
2008-07-26 16:37 ` Meanness David Kastrup
2008-07-26 16:38 ` Meanness Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-26 17:01 ` Meanness David Kastrup
2008-07-26 17:22 ` Meanness Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-27 14:49 ` Meanness Richard M Stallman
2008-07-27 14:49 ` Meanness Richard M Stallman
2008-07-26 18:08 ` Meanness Stefan Monnier
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