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Bob Young's Open Letter to SCO/Darl McBride
Oskie-wee-wee writes "Infoworld is carrying a story about Bob Young (Red Hat, Lulu, Classy Formal Wear, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, etc.) and his open letter to SCO and Darl McBride - in response to Darl's open letter 'defending, in one breath, the SCO suit, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and the Supreme Court Decision in the Eldred vs. Ashcroft case.'"
Darl: "Aaaaargooooos!"
yeah right.
i know the word and the use for it, and i feel it is ridiculous and flame-inducing language.
any dictionary (online even) will give you synonyms for words like these. it was used to invoke a negative response, and never did i say anything else about the use of this word than it being rude.
you, and the anonymous reply-er presume i misinterpreted the word because of it's 'racial sound'. that thought didn't even cross my mind.
let me put it this way: common sense tells me that, even if it does not have an officially documented racial association, this word can be offensive to people who percieve this word as being linked to skin color.
no-one would say "niggardly" in an average group of black people, and expect to be treated with respect. and rightfuly so! being etymologically correct and being considerate are two different things.
now mod me OT again. rightfully so. i just wanted to clarify that you and the other poster were overinterpreting my post quite a bit, without me giving you any reason to do so.
This is a common error. IP laws were originally designed to provide an incentive to add to the public domain.
This is also a common error. Copyright did not start with the Statute of Anne or the US Constitution. The original purpose of copyright was censorship, specifically to stop anything being printed which the authorities did not approve of.