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>Even the appropriation of generic terms like "free" to mean very, very, very specific and non-intuitive things reeks of intellectual dishonesty
The GNU copyleft (another neologism) is very specific, and means something like "irrevocably community-assigned copyright."
If instead of calling it free, he had called it irrevocably community-assigned copyright, today there would be no free Linux, Debian, etc ecosystem.
While you personally might think that issues can be decided purely on their merits, the facts speak otherwise. You've listed an example.
This is not an academic philosophical journal. This is the real world.
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>Even the appropriation of generic terms like "free" to mean very, very, very specific and non-intuitive things reeks of intellectual dishonesty
The GNU copyleft (another neologism) is very specific, and means something like "irrevocably community-assigned copyright."
If instead of calling it free, he had called it irrevocably community-assigned copyright, today there would be no free Linux, Debian, etc ecosystem.
While you personally might think that issues can be decided purely on their merits, the facts speak otherwise. You've listed an example.
This is not an academic philosophical journal. This is the real world.