![]() You clarify that while freedom 1 allows us as a community to study some code that we use, we cannot study all of it, and that it is impossible at this point to avoid all proprietary software. (3) You understandbly feel misunderstood, because you had not claimed that proprietary software was better. (2) Someone explains why, although free software is imperfect, it is more trustworthy than proprietary software. (1) You make a comment implying that the free software movement is impractical/naive/hypocritical/etc. I think breaking down why this is happening will save time and energy for all of us. However, it seems that there is one topic in which you end of going in circles with everyone with whom you discuss it. In general I think more benefit comes from assuming good faith, and I do not wish to offend you and risk you discontinuing the valuable information you have been providing about web browsers. If what you meant is indeed that these conversations are not advancing because others are indeed more interested in avoiding concessions, I would have to say that while any of us can be guilty of that at times, I seen some of this coming from your end as well. She just acknowledges that that's what it is. Both you and onpon4 have been arguing, and that's fine. They can become unproductive when the parties involved are more interested in avoiding concessions than advancing, but there is nothing wrong with arguments themselves. It's actually kind of lamentable that when faced with the hard stuff, we resort to calculators without even teaching students about the manual methods.Īrguments can be extremely useful tools for strengthening each other's understanding. You can verify for yourself that the rules and methods yield consistent results, and that's one of the things math classes are supposed to teach. It's the same with every number, and no, you don't have to verify them all. 6*8=48 because that's the rules of math: add eight to itself six times. Math is purely a human invention it's just that this human invention is useful for understanding quantities. Proprietary software is like if they give you a recipe, but in a form that you can't read you have to insert the recipe into some sort of complicated machine that makes the food for you, using processes that are nothing like the ones you would use to prepare food. Visiting a restaurant (or eating processed food) is more like SaaSS than proprietary software. When you're given food at a restaurant, you're not given a recipe that you're not allowed to change you're just given the result of a recipe. ![]() When you go to a restaurant, do you consider every dish for which you are not given the recipe + the right to modify and redistribute it a "maybe poison"? ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |