Reply-To issues proposed for Community Council agenda [Was: This Mailinglist]

[Sean Miller]

Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:

>Finally while open source may indeed be about "enablement and
>empowerment" using it is also about learning, and about community.
>Ignoring explanations and reasoned arguements in favour of making 
>wild erroneous allegations doesn't help you with either.
>  
>
Community is accepting the wish of the majority -- you will not do it 
because you feel it violates some age-old principle that you subscribe 
to, and feel that this enables you to belittle anybody who states an 
alternative viewpoint.

"Ignoring... reasoned arguments" is precisely what you are doing. That 
is quite sad... especially that you cannot see it.  I am sure that the 
slave traders in Bristol put up a very similar argument to yourself in 
the late 19th Century... thankfully, reason prevailed then.

Sean