Re: Leaving the guix project

[Leo Famulari]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 03:06:19PM +0100, David Craven wrote:
> Yeah exactly, you only force people to buy your crappy hardware and while
> you care so much about freedom, freedom of speech and information you do
> not give a shit about. You prefer to lie to unknowing users, telling them
> how firmware in ROM is so much better while I know you're full of shit and
> all of this because of an arbitrary line RMS drew.
> 
> On Feb 22, 2017 14:58, "John Darrington" <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 02:54:32PM +0100, David Craven wrote:
>      Exactly why I'm leaving. You prefer to spread and force your religion
> on to
>      people,
> 
> No we don't.
> 
> One of the defining principles of free software is that nobody is forced
> into
> anything.  And we never do it.   In fact that forcing people into things is
> exactly what we OPPOSE.
> 
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Please, everyone, can we try to keep this discussion civil?

The fact that we all find ourself on this mailing list makes me think
that we all care about free software in some way or another.

It's true that within that broad idea we have different values and
preferences, but I think we should be more generous when interpreting
each others' messages.