Yes absolutely I meant !open. And yes I agree with the rest of your statement.<br><br>Hank<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 16, 2007 8:52 AM, Attila Csipa <<a href="mailto:plists@prometheus.org.yu">plists@prometheus.org.yu
</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Friday 16 November 2007 13:29:50 hank williams wrote:
<br>> Though I do know many in th open source community feel this way. I don't<br>> know if this was just a slip or if it reflected your real opinions, but if<br>> open is evil, then most every product, device, computer, phone, chip, etc
<br>> that we use is evil, as are the people that make them. Time to go move to a<br>> cave.<br><br></div>I presume you wanted to say !open above. It's a common case used in 'evil'<br>rhetorics, when you establish that A is good (A = open in our case), and that
<br>B is not A (B = proprietary), and reason that this means B is bad. While it<br>might sound correct, it's logically flawed (the good things in Open don't<br>influence whether Proprietary is good or bad, it's good or bad based on it's
<br>own merits/flaws, not A's).<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenMoko community mailing list<br><a href="mailto:community@lists.openmoko.org">community@lists.openmoko.org
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