Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Proposal for "FUD responses" wiki pages

[Aaron Wolf]

On 02/29/2016 02:10 PM, Fabio Pesari wrote:
> On 02/29/2016 05:33 PM, Aaron Wolf wrote:
>> So, with this approach, we end the GPL / copyleft focus and the
>> arguments then become about free software vs non-free broadly, and
>> that's a further different argument to deal with.
> 
> Excellent post as usual, Aaron! If someone is still interested in
> writing the wiki, your post should be taken into consideration.
> 
> I'd be curious to see someone go on an IRC channel or subreddit hostile
> to the GPL, try this approach and report back (experiments don't count
> as trolling, right?).
> 

Oh, this approach works just fine. +114 votes for my top comment that
killed the entire FUD of a super-active bunch of arguing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3e395n/why_i_am_progpl/ctb923f

> To be honest, I still expect some people to divert the discussion
> somewhere else unrelated to copyleft. Fallacious arguments in my opinion
> are the hardest to deal with, because they don't make sense but people
> will buy into them.
> 
> I also think most people who attack the GPL are not selfish, they merely
> are scared to admit that they are perpetuating something unethical. I
> think everybody who knows how to program is smart enough to understand
> that proprietary software can easily be abused, so it's easier to sweep
> the issue under the rug and say "hey, it's how everyone else does it".
>