Your comment was definitely a waste of my time (I didn't gain anything from reading it) so by your standards I should downvote you.

  > I'm not going to sit here through the fifteenth iteration of BSD v GPL even if the arguments are cogent and civil.

No, you're carefully going to read them (to make sure they're "enough of a waste of my time") and then downvote them, because it's clearly a great way to spend your precious time.