Free Software, not as in ‘free speech’, nor as in ‘free beer’

Re:Free Software, not as in ‘free speech’, nor as in ‘free b... by kikokikokiko on Friday August 20, 2021 @03:46PM (#28250579)

Would it been better to keep firebombing the hell out of every japanese city then? Have you seen "Grave of the Fireflies?" Don't you think that the people of the 40's had a conscience too, only us the awaken 2021 homo sapiens have it?

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Re:Free Software, not as in ‘free speech’, nor as in ‘free b... by soperj on Friday August 20, 2021 @04:33PM (#28251078)

They obviously did have a conscience. That was why it was deemed a war crime in the Hague Conventions to fire bomb cities, it was then re-iterated in much more explicit terms in the Geneva Conventions.

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Re:Free Software, not as in ‘free speech’, nor as in ‘free b... by adamc on Monday August 23, 2021 @02:16PM (#28279853)

I don't love the firebombing, but think it was stupid of the Hague to criticize actions taken after said country attacked others. Wars you start you do not get sympathy for.

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Re:Free Software, not as in ‘free speech’, nor as in ‘free b... by soperj on Friday August 27, 2021 @02:25AM (#28324882)

Hague Conventions were in 1907. They signed on to them well before 1941.

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