[Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

Mon Feb 2 03:51:55 UTC 2009

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
> Ray Saintonge wrote:
>   
>> I guess that some of us are nothing more than unrepentant altruists.  We 
>> believe that free works belong to everybody.  If something is of great 
>> value to you don't need for anyone to tell you that; you already know 
>> it.  How does knowing that you produced something make the idea any 
>> better or worse than it would be without that knowledge. How is knowing 
>> that you did it better for everyone?  Pride, after all, is one of the 
>> seven deadly sins.
>>     
> And yet, the church has no problem attributing good
> works to saints by name.
>   
 The difference here is that the church is making these gratuitous 
attributions.  The saints themselves are too dead to be bothered.

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