Re: Does IBM REALLY support Linux?

From: Floyd L. Davidson (floyd_at_barrow.com)
Date: 06/18/04 

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:05:08 -0800

"Kadaitcha Man" <nospam@kadaitcha.cx> wrote:
>Floyd L. Davidson wrote:
>> "Kadaitcha Man" <nospam@kadaitcha.cx> wrote:
>>>> "Linux is supposed to be free" isn't saying that it is supposed to
>>>> be free????
>>>>
>>>> "[S]o any sale that involves linux is gross." isn't talking about
>>>> selling linux????
>>>>
>>>> What language are we speaking?
>>>
>>> Instead of making your case you are asking me to make it for you. I
>>> will repeat my position for the benefit of the terminally stupid.
>>> that would be you:
>>>
>>> "Linux is supposed to be free, so any sale that involves linux is
>>> gross."
>>>
>>>> What is the use in trying to lie your way out of having
>>>> said it?
>>>
>>> I told you, no such claim was ever made. Show where the original
>>> statement constitutes the imaginary claim you now say exists.
>
>> unless you are
>
>That is totally unacceptable in justifying your original position. You made
>an emphatic declaration so get-out clauses are not allowed when attempting
>to back-fill the hole you've made for yourself. Now, please turn whatever it
>is you are pleased to pass off as your mind and explain yourself, clearly
>and succinctly, sans get-out clauses. For the terminally stupid, that's you,
>sans get-out clauses means your original emphatic declaration is require to
>be supported by an equally emphatic justification.
>
>>> Please attend to making your case. Far be it from me to do it for
>>> you.
>>
>> Oh, you've made my case several times over!
>
>That would be mental case.

You still haven't realized that all this hand waving and lying
about the meaning of what you said just doesn't change what it
means.

Linux is NOT required to be free, as in beer; and sales that
involve Linux are not by definition gross.

Get used to it. And learn not to post gratuitous insults when
you are corrected. If you aren't able to understand the
difference between free beer and free speech, why would anyone
care for an instant that you rale on and on with equally
meaningless commentary? 

-- 
FloydL. Davidson           <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)                         floyd@barrow.com

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