new release of GPA

User auto48352680 at hushmail.com
Mon Oct 29 23:31:42 CET 2012


On 10/29/2012 4:50 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> On 10/29/2012 5:37 PM, User wrote:
>> Just because "you" have decided to cherry pick your definition of the
>> English word "free" does not make it more or less so. The word not only
>> can be used to mean "unconstrained", such as you seem to want, but it
>> can, and in fact more commonly does, also mean "obtainable without any
>> payment". And you will find both these definitions in the online Free
>> Dictionary here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/free.  Oh, and you
>> should feel "free" to quote me on that if you like.
> 
> Believe it or not, I do not agree with the Free Software Foundation.
> (I've said this before: perhaps you didn't see it.)  That does not
> change the fact that on a mailing list run by an FSF project, I believe
> it is only reasonable to comply with their request that non-free
> software, in the FSF sense of 'free software', not be recommended.
> 
>>>> And there was no disrespect intended from what I can see. "The fact 
>>>> remains that..." the GnuPG product is apparently broken and the OP
>>>> was looking for a GUI program. Not everyone wants to use a CLI.
>>> "Broken" is pretty strong language.
>>>
>>> Not everyone wants a CLI, true.  That doesn't mean GnuPG is broken: it
>>> means that GnuPG does not satisfy the needs of some users.
>>
>> Now you are making up stories because no one ever said that GnuPG CLI
>> was broken...
> 
> Read your own words, please.  You're the one who said the GnuPG product,
> not the GPA product.
> 
>> I could yes, but perhaps you should look for yourself since you have
>> never seen it, by your own admission. Anyway, how can you honestly
>> continue to justify your position of respecting that this topic not be
>> discussed when you yourself continue to respond with one reason after
>> another in your defense?  Your very actions are contrary to your
>> purported opinion. 
> 
> I never said GPGshell shouldn't be *discussed*.  I said that the Free
> Software Foundation would much rather that non-free software was not
> *recommended* on FSF-related mailing lists.
> 

You are obviously a troll, and not a very good one at that.  Good riddance.




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