On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 00:55 +0200, Karol Babioch wrote: > Hi, > > seems to be a classical case of Godwin's law ;).
I've got no time to read your mail now, I'll do it later, but regarding to the first sentences, Godwin's law is another issue. When talking about different opinions there often is a confusion with fascism. But the discussion is about "freedom" in FLOSS, a real discussion where fascism might or might nor be involved. Btw. Mr. Goldwin http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Mike_Godwin_at_Wikimedia_2010.jpg/220px-Mike_Godwin_at_Wikimedia_2010.jpg is not that smart as some people guess that he is, since a rule already pretentious implemented a "thingy". Does Mr. Goldwin stand above others? IMO he's just a smartass. His statement suffers from pretensions. A gobshite is unimpeachably, hence he doesn't have any opinion. To jump on bandwagons is easy. I might be mistaken regarding to my opinion or any other person might be mistaken to her/his opinion, but Godwin's law is just contemptuous, it's absolutely incorrect. Using such a unreflected law is a paradox, since it's the most evil fascism in itself, because it's a stupid generalisation.
